182: I Had to Reboot My Car Today
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2016
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
- John's camera hunt continues
- The tradeoffs of zoom lenses
- Sony Vario-Tessar T* E 16-70mm lens
- Sony RX10 III superzoom that John probably should get, but won't
- Fuji X-T2
- Sony A7R II, Marco's camera
- iFixit teardown
- Sony A7 II, the cheaper, older one
- Differences between A7 II and A7R II
- Olympus OM-D E-M10, Casey's camera
- Panasonic Summilux 25mm f/1.4 Micro 4/3 lens, Casey's 50mm-equivalent
- The mediocrity of car infotainment systems
- The ARM Mac feedback that won't die
- Planet of the Apps announces their advisers
- Apple TV Guide
- Apple launches bug bounties
- Apple's new diversity numbers
- Ending theme by Jonathan Mann
- Post-show: Why podcasts aren't VBR MP3s
- MP3 file structure
- More on frame headers, including the Xing VBR jump table
- Existing standard ID3 tags that could solve the problem, but appear not to be supported by anything:
- ASPI: Not precise enough for long podcasts.
- MLLT: Provides any precision level. A good candidate, but unsupported everywhere.
- A VBR version of this episode with Xing and MLLT tags
- Compared to the CBR version, it's 25% smaller with better quality during the theme song
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So, are you recording in a format that is not just call recorder? |
| 0:03.7 | Nope. |
| 0:05.0 | Start recording in a format that is not just call recorder. |
| 0:07.4 | You're just asking me to mess things up. |
| 0:09.0 | Oh, because you're afraid he's gonna pull a Casey? |
| 0:11.8 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:12.4 | My UPS lasts for at least five minutes. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm actually plugged into it, so. |
| 0:16.9 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:18.8 | Oh, wait, I hear the truck. Do you hear it? |
| 0:20.7 | Do you hear it? I was driving away, let's see. |
| 0:24.1 | Maybe it's leaving. |
| 0:25.1 | Yeah, I think it's driving away. |
| 0:26.4 | Alright. |
| 0:27.9 | So, Marco had just asked John if he could start a crash resilient sound recording |
| 0:33.9 | program so that if this truck was doing some sort of electrical work and suddenly the |
| 0:38.7 | power went out, it wouldn't be a big deal because John hopefully would be using something |
| 0:43.7 | that isn't call recorder like I was using when my Mac crapped out. |
| 0:47.6 | Which I can tell you why that matters if we ever get to talk about the MP3 file format. |
| 0:51.5 | I would love to do that, actually, but anyway, John had said to Marco, oh, well, it doesn't |
| 0:56.0 | matter because my UPS lasts for at least five minutes and I'm plugged into my UPS. |
| 1:00.5 | That's how I said it. |
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