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bourgwick

@bourgwick@heads.social

writer / WFMU DJ / good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / working on a history of music told through grey area recordings (hachette, 2025ish) / "big day coming" (2012), "heads" (2016), "wasn't that a time" (2018) / jessejarnow.com [searchable]

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doesn't really solve any problems, but sure is satisfying.

bourgwick, to random
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i have been a paid pro customer of otter.ai for 5+ years, the deadcast would not be possible without it, & i am beyond miffed at their account changes.

my "pro" plan previously allowed for 1,200 minutes of transcription per month, which i never used. but now i am limited to 1,200 minutes over 10 files. in a typical month, i upload 40-50 (or more) much shorter files from different sources.

my entire working library of audio is in there, so feeling trapped.

fuck otter. hard.

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely i'm truly at a loss. like, i can't emphasize how much the deadcast runs on otter. in addition to all the interviews we've done, i've spent tons of time uploading & organizing old archival interviews & news scraps, like hundreds of them, so they can be searchable, and there's no way to really export it & start fresh. upset with myself for trusting (checks notes) other people!

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely even more maddening: a few times, we've had to download individual audio files we'd previously uploaded, but they were severely compressed into lesser quality audio.

bourgwick,
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oh and files are suddenly capped at 90 minutes instead of 120, so i have to pay extra to read the 95 minute interview i just uploaded. shaking with rage.

bourgwick,
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@sbourne appreciated. my hope is to ultimately switch to a local app (with no subscription costs) on my harddrive. the pain point right now is exporting the hundreds of hours of audio from otter.

bourgwick,
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@mrcompletely @sbourne yeaaaaah, even trying to get my head around the logistics of starting fresh without a mass export option feels fully insurmountable right now given all other projects/deadlines. the source files are spread over so many places. i knew i shouldn't trust the cloud, but sometimes we fuck around & find out in no particular way but our own.

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