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    Spotify quietly updated their Podcast Delivery Specifications last month to v1.9. “Updated wording & added few tags with more allowed values”, they say; notably, it now seems to allow AAC audio files, but not for passthrough.


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    Listen to us using some new podcasting apps, like Fountain, and you can tip us small amounts of Bitcoin while sending us a message. These are called boostagrams - thanks to Dave, talking about Spotify’s new Pod City that “Everybody’s building a podcast studio! Not sure what to make of that. 🧐”; and to Adam, who thanked us for including a donation link for the Podcast Index last week. Here’s how to enable your podcast; and some new podcast apps to try.

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  • Stephanie Fuccio writes about how podcast listeners meet a new podcast. Podcast descriptions are rarely good enough, she suggests, as she discovers two podcasts (one from Africa, and one multilingual podcast in Arabic, German and English.

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