Re:Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
by sid-kap on Thursday May 03, 2018 @05:27PM
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Is there any chance this will lead to being able to listen to old TAL episodes via RSS? It's kinda strange that TAL is buying a podcast player company but they don't want us to listen to their podcasts...
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Re:Pocket Casts acquired by NPR
by icebraining on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:50AM
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Old episodes are a source of funding (TAL sells those on iTunes and Amazon), so they don't want you using RSS to fetch them.
But you can use RSS to listen to new episodes, so I wouldn't say they don't want us to listen to their podcast.
You can also listen to TAL in the TAL app - although it’s not a very good app and pretty buggy at times. Built by Black Pixel (https://blackpixel.com).