81–90 of 154 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> When they switched to subscriptions, they grandfathered me to the Pocket Casts Plus as a lifetime user. iirc we were only grandfathered in for 3 years.
they fixed that and made it permanent.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is ad-segment or sponsor-segment free podcasts a thing? I too pay for Spotify and I tried to get into some podcasts, starting with Darknet Diaries, but the ad and sponsor segments are just too jarring. I guess I'm not paying enough in my Spotify subscription to get it without that stuff, so who/what/where do I pay to get some podcasts I want to listen to without it?
Yes, but that sort of thing isn't included as part of a normal Spotify subscription. It looks like Spotify has support for podcasts subscriptions, but it's all on a one off basis as far as I can tell. Out of the podcasts I listen to, I'm not sure a single one uses Spotify for subscriptions. Commonly it seems to be Patreon. With all of that being said, many quality podcasts have jarring ad segments on purpose. Partly…
Agreed. One of the reasons I stopped listening to Leo Laporte was how subtly he would slide into the ads.
I quite like Pocket Casts, and I think that's the right move for them. I really hope folks don't entirely move to Spotify and their proprietary app and protocols.
After being a user for many many years, I just recently tested out to Snipd [1] and have not looked back since. Pocket Cast were great but I don't see them innovating. With Snipd there is almost always a full text transcript available including a surprisingly accurate AI generated Table of Contents to cue through. Then I can easily save a transcribed clip of some section I am listening to for export to a TfT program…
Seems like snipd is only a mobile app, the big feature that keeps me on PocketCast is the fact that I can seamlessly transition from listening on the Browser in my office, to the Mobile app in my car without loosing my place on any podcast.
Best part of PocketCast is the stats. It can tell me that since 2016 I've listened to 135 days worth of podcasts and apparently I've "saved" 46 days by increasing the playback speed and 3 days from trimming silence. (I also have 350 hours in my "up next" queue ...)
Who is making “Discover Weekly” for podcast episodes? I want personalized episode recommendations based on past listening behavior; I don't have time to dig through 30 podcast feeds to find an episode that interests me, which is why I usually only listen to specific episodes that friends recommend. I bet recommendations across all podcasts (not just ones I know of) that match my interests to others with the same list…
Well, Spotify does some of that as far as I know. But I'd never switch to playing my podcasts there just out of principle (even though I pay the subscription too) because I don't like how they are trying to build a walled garden for podcasts and kill RSS as a thing.
Has anyone else had issues with audio jumping forward/backward while playing episodes? I think it has to do with dynamically inserted ads causing a different version of the file to be served. As pocket casts streams by sending a range request it gets different positions in the file due to different length ads or VBR.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Software development in the age of mobile requires continuous development. Who is going to pay for development of new features?
I mean, that's all fine and well. Just don't sell products then take them away after because you can. Imagine buying physical goods and having the business owner come to your house and take it away because it was costing them too much. Insanity.
The better analogy would be like me expecting NordicTrack to service my exercise equipment for free forever. They aren’t going to take my physical equipment away. But they also aren’t going to keep sending me replacement parts and service techs out anytime I call them unless I keep paying the annual warranty.
And before anyone replies that it must be shoddy equipment to keep needing repairs, heavily used exercise equipment constantly has moving parts that wear down.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, that's all fine and well. Just don't sell products then take them away after because you can. Imagine buying physical goods and having the business owner come to your house and take it away because it was costing them too much. Insanity.
So should they be obligated to keep supporting their servers forever? The better analogy would be like me expecting NordicTrack to service my exercise equipment for free forever. They aren’t going to take my physical equipment away. But they also aren’t going to keep sending me replacement parts and service techs out anytime I call them unless I keep paying the annual warranty. And before anyone replies that it must…
Don't sell products then change them afterwards. I paid for a thing. Then they made it so that the thing I purchased required more payment indefinitely. That's bullshit.