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A friendly podcast player with Podcasting 2.0 features
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March 12, 2024:
    Embedded players by Podverse, Podfriend and JustCast are being excluded from OP3 stats after downloading audio when the page is loaded, rather than when the listener presses play.
May 19, 2023:
    The Podnews Weekly Review this week includes interviews with Mark Asquith of Captivate on the company's new monetisation tools, Oscar Merry of Fountain on the new version of the app, and Martin Mouritzen on the new version of Podfriend.
April 24, 2023:
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August 22, 2022:
    Blubrry's new captions (above) follow the podcast:index standard, so should display in a number of apps including PodcastAddict, Podverse and Podfriend. They join Buzzsprout in supporting the standard.
June 3, 2022:
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November 8, 2021:
    Cross-app comments are now testing in some podcast apps. The podcast:social tag will allow listeners to leave comments on a variety of platforms, some of which may be directly visible within podcast apps. Here is the proposed specification for more. The first cross-app comments went live in last Friday's Podcasting 2.0 episode; you can view the comments, after opening the player in the bottom, in the comments tab for the latest episode in Podfriend.
September 30, 2021:
August 24, 2021:
    The implementation adds ?t=(seconds) at the end of the URL. YouTube and Spotify use this too, as does Pocket Casts and Podfriend, and it works on Overcast. Google Podcasts works differently; Apple Podcasts doesn't let you do this at all.
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April 26, 2021:
    Podland this week has Sam Sethi and our Editor, James Cridland, talk about Apple and Spotify's plans for podcasting. Listen on Podfriend and try value4value for yourself.
April 6, 2021:
January 11, 2021:
    Martin Mouritzen, the developer for Podfriend, is on the Podcasting 2.0 podcast this week.
January 7, 2021:
    Podfriend has just launched a native Mac app. One of the most complete Podcast 2.0 apps, it's available in alpha today.
October 26, 2020:
    Podfriend now supports the funding tag. (It's in our feed, too, if you want to see how it works).
October 12, 2020:
    Podfriend has added a "Tinder for podcasts" feature, allowing you to listen to random new episodes. Swipe left for "nope"; swipe right to add to a list of podcasts you'd like to be a little more, cough, acquainted with.
October 5, 2020:
    We have added the web version of Podfriend to our list of podcast apps on our podcast pages. The service uses Podcast Index.
September 30, 2020:
September 28, 2020:
    Podfriend is "the world's friendliest podcast app". Out for Windows 10, with more platforms on the way, it's powered by the Podcast Index. We're an especial fan of the podcast they're listening to on desktop on the site's front page.

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