
TikTok prepares to launch podcast app
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Social media app TikTok is preparing to launch a podcast app. Podcast hosting company Audiomeans has told Podnews that it spotted a “new bot that is scraping our feeds, starting October 11”, and they’ve tracked it back to TikTok: more on the bots in our “Tech Stuff”, below.
- TikTok, which has over 1 billion monthly users and 138m monthly active US users, has recently registered a trademark for TikTok Music which includes the provision for podcast content; and the company is already talking to record companies.
- TikTok’s parent company also owns Resso, a music streaming service in Brazil, India and Indonesia, which already carries podcasts from hosts like Libsyn.
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More on those new TikTok RSS scrapers that Audiomeans spotted (above). The servers are in Singapore, with a range of IP addresses leading back to TikTok’s AS138699. The useragent being used is
Go-http-client/1.1
, the default useragent for a library used in the Go development language (which TikTok developers use). Podnews’s daily podcast is also seeing traffic from these IP ranges. -
Documentation for the new podcast namespace is being suggested to be updated with proper mimetypes. For transcripts,
application/srt
is wrong;application/x-subrip
is right - and for audio,audio/mp3
is wrong;audio/mpeg
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The Hive blockchain, which is used in Podping to send instant notifications of new shows and live streams, underwent a “hard fork” recently (but, as Brian from London posted, nothing broke).
- You can watch new episodes being announced, live, on this website.
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The new Podcast namespace has had its licence made clearer: it’s CC0 v1.0.
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