The player has issues, it stalls all the time with some shows. I don't have too much problems with yours, but with Saife's it is terrible.
The ONLY reason I can’t use nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 exclusively for podcast is because of how garbage the podcast index is at searching my own show.
If I search “Bitcoin Audible Whitepaper” then despite 100s of results not a SINGLE episode of my show is even there. If I search the same in Spotify, the episode with the whitepaper is, obviously, the top result.
This has been going on forever and it’s so fucking annoying. I’ve contacted the guys who literally made the podcast index, and have tried to sort this out on maybe a dozen different occasions in the past 2 years, and it’s still complete trash.
Discussion
The problem I'm referring to isn't with nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5, its the index they connect to for aggregating podcasts. And i still just haven't figured out why its such an awful search system or what is even happening. That's what makes it suck. Fountain has been great for me in every other regard, but the podcast index project has made it unusable for me because of one really stupid and fixable barrier that just isn't getting fixed.
Who can build a better podcastindex.org?
Doesn't need to build something different, just fix whatever the indexing problem is with the one that's already there. I just don't know how unfortunately.
Feedback taken onboard
I’ve been frustrated with the search performance too.
It takes much longer to find the show name when entering it.
With Fountain you have to spell out almost the entire name vs. Apple Podcasts where it auto-populates much faster.
https://video.nostr.build/82097fd1fce12848a6db5b46829c5de3367d48275c0e3c0ddea38b26fb9cf302.mp4
https://video.nostr.build/e3518d4469737cab3ba247b4e15b565df01ea211b4b2ad9dc36fc7c59ffec38b.mp4
It’s an index and not a search engine. We don’t have the capital to do episode level search. It’s a purely V4V project.