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A Hindenburg alternative that runs in the browser
Hindenburg is a craft tool: a desktop workstation designed around the voice, with the clipboard, the levelling and the loudness discipline that newsroom work demands. Cast is built for the other case — an episode due today, edited by reading it, finished and exported without installing anything.
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At a glance
| Hindenburg | Cast | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Desktop app, macOS and Windows | Browser — nothing to install, any machine |
| Built for | Radio and journalism craft, multitrack assembly | Finishing one podcast episode, fast |
| Editing model | Clips on a timeline, by ear | Transcript first — cut the audio by deleting text |
| Fillers & pauses | Found and cut by hand | Listed, counted, cut in one click |
| Music | Bring your own tracks | Generated per episode, ducks itself under the voice |
| Licence | Bring your own clearance | Commercial licence and a per-export licence record (Plus/Max) |
| Offline | Yes | No — Cast needs a connection |
If you already think in a timeline, stay
Hindenburg rewards fluency. People who edit in it daily are fast, work offline, and keep habits built over years of newsroom deadlines. Nothing here argues with that — Cast is not a workstation and will not become one.
The case for reading the episode instead
The gap shows up on the days you did not plan for: an interview that ran long, a guest who says “you know” forty times, an episode due before lunch. Scrubbing finds those by ear, one pass at a time. Cast finds them by listing them — every filler counted per speaker, every silence over your threshold, each cut snapped to a quiet point and reversible from Recent edits.
Then the finish, which is usually the other half of the afternoon: music generated for this episode rather than picked from a pile, ducking itself under the voice as you keep editing, and an export at −14, −16 or −23 LUFS by picking the platform.
- Nothing to install
- Cut by deleting text
- Music made for the episode
- Loudness by platform preset
FAQ
01What does editing by transcript look like?
Select any run of words in the Voice Editor and a menu appears. You can delete them (the audio is cut and the gap closes), ignore them (the audio is muted, the timing stays), correct the wording, mark a chapter, assign a speaker, or copy and paste words elsewhere.
Read more →02How does the music duck under the voice?
That is auto-ducking. The music drops under the voice and comes back in the gaps, automatically — and because the duck follows your actual voice clips, it stays correct after you cut. Trim a minute of filler and the music re-balances itself. You never draw a volume envelope by hand. You can set how far it drops, or switch it off.
Read more →03How does Cast set loudness for each platform?
Apple Podcasts wants −16 LUFS; Spotify and YouTube want −14 LUFS; broadcast (EBU R128) wants −23 LUFS. Most tools make you type that number in. Cast ships the target with the platform — pick where you are publishing and it normalizes to that, with true peak at −1 dB. (Master is the exception: no normalization, no ceiling — untouched on purpose.)
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