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Aug 28 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
  • Big Tech Comes for Podcasts - “Silicon Valley could wreck audio journalism”, claims an article in Washington Monthly, arguing that we need government regulation to keep podcasting healthy.

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  • Director of Radio James Purnell is to leave the BBC next week. A former Labour MP who was responsible for BBC Sounds, the corporation’s audio app, he was publicly sidelined by the new DG, Tim Davie. He moves to be President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Arts in London; but must have been in a hurry to leave - that job starts in March.

    • New government rules on redundancy payouts mean we’re likely to see a rush of people leaving the BBC over the next few weeks; David Robey, the Station Editor of BBC Radio London, suddenly departed on Friday.
  • Podshape
    Spotify

    Podshape, an Australian podcast publisher, has got one of its shows into a new Spotify “Daily Wellness” podcast playlist; and launched three new shows.

  • The founders of Gotham Podcast Studio have unveiled their own community-focused hosting company. Tandem Podcasting launches with member profiles and a live member chat service.

  • Spotify

    Spotify’s “music with shows” seems to have been possible for some time. Tom Mullen contacts us to point us to two projects he’s worked with - a track-by-track with Kranium, an artist at Atlantic done in February, and Duran Duran Radio’s WHOOOSH!, with Simon Le Bon and Katy Krassner, now at episode 27.


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    • It’s possible to do the same with YouTube. See “the tech stuff” below.
  • mp3DirectCut, a direct MP3 editor (which edits without re-encoding), is now available on Android.

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Podcast Index

There’s been significant movement in the new Podcast Index podcast namespace. With the locking, transcript, funding and chapters data all being returned in the API responses, a lot of support has already been announced.

  • Fireside is now supporting publishing of the locking, funding and transcript tags; and will obey the locking tag for imports early this week.
  • Castopod, an open-source podcast hosting platform, now supports the locking tag (both for import and publish). The service now also uses OPAWG’s RSS useragents list to enhance analytics. Funded by the NGI0 Discovery Fund by NLnet, you can grab the source and download it today.
  • Hypercatcher, “an Interactive Podcast App unlike any other”, now supports the podcast:chapters tag.
  • Podfriend now supports the funding tag. (It’s in our feed, too, if you want to see how it works).
  • Blubrry now has a tool to help you submit your podcast to the Podcast Index. (This works for anyone - no need to be hosted with Blubrry).
  • Adam Curry writes that we shouldn’t forget the listeners - asking for testing tools. A reminder that Dave Jones and Adam Curry’s Podcasting 2.0 podcast is not on Apple (or Spotify).
  • Is there a better way to attribute platforms and apps than a useragent? This audio query string proposal from our Editor probably has a lot of holes in it, but feedback is welcome.
  • Want to do a “Spotify show with music” but using YouTube’s catalogue instead? You can do it with a playlist - and It turns out that you can do quite a creditable version using the YouTube Javascript API - properly mixing and talking over the songs and jingles and all that. (That bit does, however, come with a few gotchas).

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Podcast Day

In Europe, Podcast Day started a few hours ago (at the time of writing). Here’s a snapshot of the Ear Hustle session with Earlonne Woods.

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