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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by wanone on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:47AM (#22287697)
That's just being pedantic. I installed Spotify only for podcasts. It's also the only app that seems to work with weak networks. Rest are terrible.
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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by corobo on Monday February 10, 2020 @05:48AM (#22287986)
It's not pedantic though. Lets say you were a fan of Hello Internet (not affiliated, I just subscribe to their private feed)

Run me through how you'd listen to their paid podcast "Goodbye Internet"[0] in Spotify and I'll concede that Spotify is a podcast client.

[0] https://www.patreon.com/hellointernet

and then it's also not a podcast provider. Run me through how I'd listen to Gimlet's Academy[1] audio series in Overcast, and I'll concede that point too

[1] https://open.spotify.com/show/7hhEbl4DOMheWRunCUAla6?si=WFxE...

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Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? by CharlesW on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:01PM (#22303903)
> That's just being pedantic.

And if everyone cares as little as you do, Spotify will win.

My hope is that most people on HN won't confuse "caring about open standards" with "pedantry".

> It's also the only app that seems to work with weak networks.

This is non-sensical. Episodes are delivered via ordinary HTTP. And with podcast apps (again, Spotify is not one), the odds are good that episodes from your subscriptions have been pre-fetched to local storage before you even play them.

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