• iegod@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What value would oss bring here when it’s the content that matters most? I’m actually really interested to know because I too really liked this app/service.

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      1 year ago

      Podcasts are (generally, Spotify excluded) on an open standard. They’re just RSS feeds. So, the content can be aggregated by anyone. So it’s primarily the UI that will be different between different podcast players.

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        1 year ago

        Sure but the hosting of that content isn’t something a front end can solve.

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          1 year ago

          Podcasts are already hosted by a variety of independent services. Google doesn’t host any podcasts, at least as far as I am aware. In this case it really is a frontend-only problem.

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          1 year ago

          The RSS feed points to the already hosted files. A lot of people host podcasts on services like libsyn or podbean. I don’t think you can really host podcasts on Google; maybe hacked together on drive or something.