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Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

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Re: Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

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Post by johnchristopher »

Podcast providers are also killing the open podcast without Spotify's help.

France culture and France Inter recently removed their audio files older than 2 months (give or take) from their servers and they are only accessible through the official smartphone app.

Old links now points to a generic 20 seconds jingle that says the file is not available anymore but you may download the official application to listen to it. Of course there are missing podcasts in the official app. And now I have holes in podcast series that weren't completely downloaded.

Yesterday the official app prompted me for advertising and tracking cookies.

Re: Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

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Post by djmips »

jack_pp wrote: post #241
Mandatum wrote: post #239

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Yeah but on the flip side -- nothing beats Spotify recommendations. I've found so much new music - if you're a new artist no other platform would provide more value than Spotify for discovery. Now, if we're talking pay-the-rent value..

Youtube music has been great for music recommendations lately. I rarely use Spotify anymore even though I pay for it

Will YouTube music play on Android while you do other things? YouTube video player on Android halts audio as soon as you switch contexts but Spotify plays in the background.

Re: Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

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Post by Cd00d »

Causality1 wrote: post #217
Cd00d wrote: post #201

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Can you tell me how Spotify is with playlists of comedy albums? I started falling asleep to comedy a couple months ago to manage poor sleep based on a generally negative attitude. It was fine on YT Music for a while, but now a lot of the community playlists are garbage, or most of the clips have been pulled (I assume some copyright issues). I'd move to Spotify for that, and pay, if they had a catalog of decent standu…

Do you find a significant difference between that and comedy podcasts?

I don't know of any comedy podcasts that are more like comedy albums - recommendations would be appreciated!

The podcasts I listen to from comedians is more along the lines of interviews, like WTF, or a few people spitballing on various topics. Not well formed jokes.

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Post by gurkendoktor »

Tsiklon wrote: post #280
gurkendoktor wrote: post #268

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Podcasts have really ruined Spotify's mobile app. The worst part is that there is space for a "Podcasts" tab in the bottom bar that would have made everyone happy by clearly separating types of content. Apple has gone a similar route recently with reducing the Activity/Fitness app to just two/three tabs, mushing all sorts of content together. I hope this doesn't become another user-hostile UI trend.

Spotify have obviously weighed the pros and cons of being actively intrusive into their user's experience in order to build brand awareness of their nascent podcast business. Personally they keep advertising podcasts by people who I find morally or politically objectionable, which makes me quite unhappy that I cannot hide or remove their content (and podcasts as a whole) from the Home Screen.

Good point. Honestly, in Spotify I don't even want to see political content from people I agree with. Sometimes I just want to take a break from my European duty to care about US politics 24/7, but it's getting hard to do so anywhere on the internet.

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Post by jack_pp »

djmips wrote: post #282
jack_pp wrote: post #241

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Youtube music has been great for music recommendations lately. I rarely use Spotify anymore even though I pay for it

Will YouTube music play on Android while you do other things? YouTube video player on Android halts audio as soon as you switch contexts but Spotify plays in the background.

I think you only get youtube music with youtube premium at which point both apps work in the background

Re: Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

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Post by perryizgr8 »

It seems that Spotify is under pressure to keep growing revenue, even at the cost of diluting the original purpose of the company. In an ideal world, they would focus on the glitches and bugs, and making sure new and old music keeps getting added to the collection. Nothing else is required. No podcasts, no ads, no videos, nothing.

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Post by alsetmusic »

kbenson wrote: post #205
rchaud wrote: post #90

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Joe Rogan will occasionally have guests that attract people who wouldn't otherwise be interested in common JRE topics. In my case, it was podcasts with Billy Corgan and Shirley Manson (of Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage, respectively). I enjoyed those episodes a lot, plus a few he has with comedians I find funny. But it wasn't enough to make me subscribe. I doubt there is any podcast that I consider indispensable enoug…

I have a few I've considered indispensable that have shifted over time. Reply All is consistently good (but I'm a couple months behind at this point, less podcast time). Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is a treat when it comes out, but that's like every 4-6 months usually. This is only a test from tested.com is good, and even though it's weekly it's topical enough I can skip a week or two and not feel like I need to go…

> My most recent favorite is Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod, which perfectly encapsulates that feeling I used to get when I sat down with a good friend and we started talking about/ranting about some interesting thing one of us did a deep dive on recently.

You might enjoy Grumpy Old Geeks. I’ve been listening to the show for a couple of years. I recommend checking them out.

Re: Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

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Post by e40 »

Causality1 wrote: post #218
andrepd wrote: post #194

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OT but AntennaPod is amazing, and open source. I switched from Pocket Casts and it's amazing.

Podcast Addict is my favorite. Being able to keep different settings for every podcast is nice.

Pocket Casts has it for some setting, though I don't know if the settings you care about are included.
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