• ijeff@lemdro.idOPM
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      1 year ago

      Do people really use Spotify for podcasts? I don’t find it a great experience. Pocket Casts seems to be solid as a free app along with other alternatives (including open-source).

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        1 year ago

        I’m pretty sure the only people who use Spotify for podcasts are unvaccinated Roganites

        • whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world
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          Just here to say fuck Dax Shepherd for being a Spotify exclusive podcaster.

          It’s the only reason my family plan hasn’t been migrated, really. I don’t want to deal with that fall out.

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            Seriously. I have the Spotify app installed just to listen to his occasional podcast. It’s inspired me to start writing a self hosted app that will archive all your podcasts locally so next time a podcaster decides to sell out I won’t lost their back catalog. And then I also have a place to stream their newer stuff that I figure out a way to pirate.

            The podcast market is in an extremely precarious state due to giant corporations like I heart media and spotify trying to insert themselves into the market, implement Chokepoints with exclusive content, and finally extinguish open alternatives.

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            1 year ago

            Excited to here Dax has a podcast but also sad since I won’t be listening to it.

      • Cryptic Fawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I use Spotify for podcasts, though if the rumors of them increasing their sub is true, I’ll be swapping to open source alternative’s.

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      Spotify is 10 a month for a normal subscription, so Pocket Casts is roughly a third of that for one year. I don’t like Spotify for podcasts at all but it is a big part of the service nowadays. Still awfully expensive for Pocket Casts when you consider that it is just for podcasts and no music - unlike Spotify.

    • Orange@sh.itjust.works
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      You don’t need to pay for the subscription to use PocketCasts for podcasts. There is a free version that does everything you would need it to.