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Meidas is #35 on Spotify. Not sure how that’s “dethroning” Rogan. 😂
Spotify is not the home of all podcasts, and it's actually a really shitty way to get your podcasts imo. Other people pointed me toward AntennaPod (which is free and open source) and it's just straight up better. There are several advantages, but the only one I needed to hear about was not needing to connect to a server to be able to listen to a podcast I had already downloaded to my phone. If I didn't listen to a podcast for a couple seconds from my home wifi before getting in the car, I'd just be driving for a few minutes in silence until Spotify could verify that I was a paying customer before they'd let me listen to free content already downloaded to my device. Ridiculous.
Not shitting on you, btw. Just shitting on Spotify and hopefully introducing some people to a thing that's made my life better.
Pocket Casts is my favorite, but AP is a great option that I used for quite a while.
I second Pocket Casts, but I was grandfathered in, so I'm not getting the new user experience, though I only take advantage of the desktop app.
Mm, fair point. I was also grandfathered in. But if I recall correctly, the free stuff is still pretty great.
I wish they'd make a podcast app with a playback feature that's not just a single seekbar. If for some reason you need to scroll through something, having a small bar represent an hour or two doesn't give much granularity. I've been using audiopo, where your entire screen becomes the playback bar, but it's not really a podcast app so it doesn't have a good way to organize your files.
We don't really have a good UI solution to that anywhere, though.
The closest I've seen is with longform video apps, where scrubbing along the progress bar pops up a little video preview, but it's not consistently available, it's a half-baked idea, and if I had a dollar for every time the preview didn't match up to what you actually got when you hit play, I'd probably have enough to hire someone to fix it.
In podcasts, I think chapters is the best idea going, but it's not well-implemented either.
I think scrubbing along the progress bar is just a bad visual metaphor. I don't know what's better, but I just don't think it's great.
Oh wow. I’ve never heard of Pocket Casts.
Of their top 100 podcasts - Meidas Touch is not even listen. Thank you for this.
I'm not entirely sure that counts. Last I heard, their "top x" lists were just aggregates of other storefronts' "top x" lists.
Antenna Pod is great! Lately I've been using Podcast Republic and I can't remember why I tried it specifically, but importantly it has very in-depth retention and download rules so I can exclude previews of the paid feed that are only 20 minutes long, sort podcasts by date or by title (handy if you pull in LibriVox books by RSS feed), create a podcast from a folder of files, and various other handy features.
Apple and YouTube are way more dominant in the podcast market than Spotify is, though neither of them show Meidas above Rogan either, so I don't know where these numbers are coming from.
Exactly! I’m showing these people that these are made up numbers, and I give one example, Spotify, and THATS what they’re hung up on. Not that the article is lying to them. Like..you can’t fake this level of stupidity.
You're calling me stupid because I respectfully informed you that your source didn't apply to all podcasts and then went a step further and recommended a better (and free) platform to enjoy podcasts from? Not cool.
I don't really care if this podcast is #1 or not. I care that Spotify is bad at podcasts and I like to share that there are better ways because I myself didn't know any better until somebody told me.
Industry publications regularly have access to metrics that storefronts don't display, though. I'm willing to believe that they have data supporting this, but it's weird that it's not being shown anywhere.
Spotify is where less than a quarter of people listen to podcasts
Joe is only on Spotify
Edit: okay apparently in the past week or two he became non exclusive. Funny timing.
He’s seeing other podcast providers now?
Seemingly so, such a shame, they seemed so happy together
Because Spotify is just one source....
Every site I’ve looked up has Meidas at 20+. Not sure what you’re getting at.