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Don't call it "Podcast" when it's only on Spotify.

by manuw 6y ago

waiseristy 6y ago
You're right Podcasts belong exclusively on the Apple store You all know where the term podcast came from right?
- kuschku 6y ago
  No, a proper podcast is available as RSS feed and compatible with any Podcast player. It's the last actually open and compatible part of the web that hasn't been split apart and sealed off by corporate interests, so we should fight to keep it that way.
  - deleted 6y ago
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  - lode 6y ago
    Here you go: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/wind-of-change-wide https://feeds.megaphone.fm/wind-of-change-wide
raverbashing 6y ago
"Don't call it a movie if it's only on Netflix?" I think the Academy (or was it some movie festival) tried to pull that one. Didn't work. We can discuss the (de)merits of being Spotify only, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a podcast.
- tobr 6y ago
  More something like, “don’t call it a Blu-ray movie if you can’t play it on a Blu-ray player”. Feel free to call it a “show” or whatever, but if you can’t play it in a podcast player, how is it meaningfully a podcast? Edit: Probably a much better movie analogy would be “Don’t say you’re shooting film if you‘re using a digital camera”.
  - foota 6y ago
    I don't think the common usage of the term really refers to the particulars of the technology involved.
- ornornor 6y ago
  I read parent’s “only” not as if to say “it’s not as good quality because it could only manage to be on Spotify” but rather that it’s inaccessible to anyone not using Spotify ie it’s exclusively on that platform.
lode 6y ago
All other feeds at https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/ https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/ Including plain old RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/wind-of-change-wide https://feeds.megaphone.fm/wind-of-change-wide
vesinisa 6y ago
Or - don't call it Podcast if you can listen it on non-Apple device? ;) "Pod" in Podcast in fact originally referred to "iPod", an early 2000s Apple Inc. DRM music player.
- rocqua 6y ago
  I think OP's point is more like calling whatsapp an SMS because the user experience is similar. Because the underlying technology stack is meaningfully different, and that difference matters.
- Piskvorrr 6y ago
  Yeah, yeah, and criminals breaking into computers are crackers, not hackers. Some ships have sailed decades ago.

Don't call it "Podcast" when it's only on Spotify.

by manuw 6y ago

Don't call it "Podcast" when it's only on Spotify.

waiseristy 6y ago

You're right Podcasts belong exclusively on the Apple store You all know where the term podcast came from right?

kuschku 6y ago
No, a proper podcast is available as RSS feed and compatible with any Podcast player. It's the last actually open and compatible part of the web that hasn't been split apart and sealed off by corporate interests, so we should fight to keep it that way.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- lode 6y ago
  Here you go: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/wind-of-change-wide https://feeds.megaphone.fm/wind-of-change-wide

raverbashing 6y ago

"Don't call it a movie if it's only on Netflix?" I think the Academy (or was it some movie festival) tried to pull that one. Didn't work. We can discuss the (de)merits of being Spotify only, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a podcast.

tobr 6y ago
More something like, “don’t call it a Blu-ray movie if you can’t play it on a Blu-ray player”. Feel free to call it a “show” or whatever, but if you can’t play it in a podcast player, how is it meaningfully a podcast? Edit: Probably a much better movie analogy would be “Don’t say you’re shooting film if you‘re using a digital camera”.
- foota 6y ago
  I don't think the common usage of the term really refers to the particulars of the technology involved.
ornornor 6y ago
I read parent’s “only” not as if to say “it’s not as good quality because it could only manage to be on Spotify” but rather that it’s inaccessible to anyone not using Spotify ie it’s exclusively on that platform.

lode 6y ago

All other feeds at https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/ https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/ Including plain old RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/wind-of-change-wide https://feeds.megaphone.fm/wind-of-change-wide

vesinisa 6y ago

Or - don't call it Podcast if you can listen it on non-Apple device? ;) "Pod" in Podcast in fact originally referred to "iPod", an early 2000s Apple Inc. DRM music player.

rocqua 6y ago
I think OP's point is more like calling whatsapp an SMS because the user experience is similar. Because the underlying technology stack is meaningfully different, and that difference matters.
Piskvorrr 6y ago
Yeah, yeah, and criminals breaking into computers are crackers, not hackers. Some ships have sailed decades ago.