• Cryptic Fawn
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    211 year ago

    Holy shit that price is just insane. No one is going to be willing to pay that when Spotify is cheaper by a lot…

    • ijeffOPM
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      191 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).

      • @[email protected]
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        151 year ago

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

        • @whynotzoidberg
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          21 year ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            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.

      • Cryptic Fawn
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        31 year ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      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
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      41 year ago

      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.