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Tried the new Spotify mixing tool. It has real promise, but isn't quite ready for primetime yet. One little tweak is all it needs. One little tweak. A full review over here - with audio! And video!

James Cridland - radio futurologist

Review: Spotify Music

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Interesting. Podnews bandwidth doubled on/around Dec 21. Our RSS feed was suddenly doing 150,000 hits a day instead of the usual 22,000 hits. It's gone back to normal now. One IP address from "Wowrack" hit our RSS feed 132,098 times in one day. Cheers, random fake-browser guy, for hitting me with $20 extra bandwidth. User-agent was a set of fake browsers - some on Windows running Chrome 119 or 120; some on Mac running Chrome 120. Both browsers came out in late 2023. Added my RSS feed to the rate-limiting rule. Thankfully, it's static; sadly, it is static on disk, not static on S3.

Now I'm back on Spotify - I remember a ton of websites that produced good, data-led automatic playlists for Spotify. Where have they all gone? One made me a monthly playlist of "every song I added to my library that month". That was nice. Another seemingly gave me "every song recommended in this subreddit". Another, auto playlists of most-played songs from a few decent radio stations, like 6music. Anyone got any pointers?

I'm not sure that Podcast Index is updating its index when it sees a redirect. I've added a chunk of evidence here.

GitHub

How to get a better and cleaner Index and directories · Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace · Discussion #737

Hi @daveajones and @agates , I think last board meeting was a lot to chew. Here are my 2 cents before I forget half of it. AI Slop / SPAM This it's...

Has anyone done any work in a proper list of “podcast apps that support RSS video podcasts”? (Not alternateEnclosures - proper full video, like This Week In Tech -

Podnews

This Week in Tech (Video)

Listen to the technology audio show This Week in Tech (Video) from TWiT in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Overcast and other podcast apps

) (Not HLS streams, but proper full video files)

Good start of a conversation about AI slop in the Podcast Index from @npub1gp8t...c8ut

GitHub

How to get a better and cleaner Index and directories · Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace · Discussion #737

Hi @daveajones and @agates , I think last board meeting was a lot to chew. Here are my 2 cents before I forget half of it. AI Slop / SPAM This it's...

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Podnews Social

Podnews podcasting news (@podnews@social.podnews.net)

iHeartRadio announces support for video podcasts: It'll use your RSS feed, just like open podcasting should. https://podnews.net/update/iheartradio...

Now, this looks really quite welcome. iHeartRadio looks like giving video-podcasts-via-RSS nice visibility in the iHeartRadio app in the US. You don't have to host your podcast with them, and it works with RSS. I've asked for more technical information, so watch Podnews over the next few weeks for more. View quoted note →