Earth Notes: RSS Podcast Feed Efficiency Sonification 2

Updated 2024-09-02.
Sonification: sounding out the carbon cost of sloppy implementation 12 weeks in... #frugal #greenSoftware #RSS
No voiceover: listening to the beat of heavy-handed RSS polling for twelve weeks from to the end of .
147s "12 weeks RSS type 2 GrindingWaves LiverpoolBass" (captions) Uploaded . Downloads:
  1. • tiny MIDI track 15kB +
  2. • small lo-fi very-low-bandwidth Opus mono clip 297kB (16kbps) +
  3. • lo-fi low-bandwidth MP3 mono clip 723kB (40kbps) ++
  4. • reduced-bandwidth Opus stereo clip 1915kB (106kbps) ++
  5. • MP3 stereo clip 3248kB (181kbps) +++
  6. • hi-fi lossless FLAC stereo clip 9583kB (534kbps) +++++
Transcript:
[By-hour GMT bytes and hits (tom-toms) and status codes of RSS feed download traffic over 12 sample weeks; 4 hours in a 4/4 bar, 6 bars in a day.]
byHourSummary2

Show Notes

All part of trying to understand better RSS Podcast Feed Efficiency...

"Type 2" summary from statsHouse V5.3.4 with tweaked instrument voices from the GarageBand defaults.

A variant with Vintage Arcade in place of percussion/toms.

147s "12 weeks RSS type 2 GrindingWaves VintageArcade" Uploaded . Downloads:
  1. • tiny MIDI track 15kB +
  2. • small lo-fi very-low-bandwidth Opus mono clip 299kB (16kbps) +
  3. • lo-fi low-bandwidth MP3 mono clip 837kB (46kbps) ++
  4. • reduced-bandwidth Opus stereo clip 1768kB (98kbps) ++
  5. • MP3 stereo clip 3577kB (199kbps) +++
  6. • hi-fi lossless FLAC stereo clip 16838kB (938kbps) +++++

: now with ice mallets

20240728 RSS type 2 IceMallets
192s "20240728 RSS type 2 IceMallets" Uploaded . Downloads:
  1. • tiny MIDI track 20kB +
  2. • small lo-fi very-low-bandwidth Opus mono clip 391kB (16kbps) +
  3. • lo-fi low-bandwidth MP3 mono clip 818kB (34kbps) ++
  4. • reduced-bandwidth Opus stereo clip 2388kB (101kbps) ++
  5. • MP3 stereo clip 3741kB (159kbps) +++
  6. • hi-fi lossless FLAC stereo clip 11209kB (478kbps) +++++

"Type 2" summary from statsHouse V5.3.4 with alternative instrument voices from GarageBand.

  • Toms for bytes and hits per hour percussion from Heavy drums.
  • Ice Mallets for 200 responses.
  • Delicate Bells for 304s.
  • Liverpool Bass for error responses (406, 429, 503) and skipHours (overnight) hits.

: Chime Swell

20240902 RSS type 2 ChimeSwell
257s "20240902 RSS type 2 ChimeSwell" Uploaded . Downloads:
  1. • tiny MIDI track 28kB +
  2. • small lo-fi very-low-bandwidth Opus mono clip 532kB (16kbps) +
  3. • lo-fi low-bandwidth MP3 mono clip 1090kB (34kbps) ++
  4. • reduced-bandwidth Opus stereo clip 3343kB (106kbps) ++
  5. • MP3 stereo clip 6029kB (192kbps) +++
  6. • hi-fi lossless FLAC stereo clip 13151kB (419kbps) +++++

"Type 2" summary from statsHouse V5.3.4 with alternative instrument voices from GarageBand.

  • Toms for bytes and hits per hour percussion from Liverpool drums.
  • Chime Swell for 200 responses.
  • Delicate Bells for 304s.
  • Liverpool Bass for error responses (406, 429, 503) and skipHours (overnight) hits.