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James Cridland
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Passionate about audio · Editor of Podnews https://podnews.net · Host of the Podnews Weekly Review https://weekly.podnews.net · Personal/radio blog: https://james.cridland.net · These messages self-destruct I also have a thing for craft beer, and did so before it was quite as trendy as today. I live in Meanjin/Brisbane QLD Australia - in Bardon 4065 - on the land of the Turrbul and Jagera people. I'm British and moved here ten years ago.

IPFS data (principally for nostr:npub1df6eyr7x6cv4gq99h3rjnhj6f4yqzxa97pxf2ecxeq82ea8mwdyqfgns3a nostr:npub1ln5q8np5aezhtt7ztv6tah86xk4t3smjuchdvxp0u6uta056204q45xyw6 nostr:npub1g6plln20m4g7e42zedtrsxf08sc9mw2n23c6d2p02rf6302z4xkqyudgtx ) for my Aug 3 Podnews Daily...

OP3 reports 1,636 downloads of the MP3 file. But, how many downloaded did I see on my own filehost? Just 15.

I published at 9:19 that day. Wget is the IPFS filecatcher useragent (for now).

The PodcastAddict ones are before any IPFS service has grabbed the file - probably an unforseen effect of Podping causing a race condition between the two?

I wrote a thing about the future of radio, though also fitted in nostr:npub1df6eyr7x6cv4gq99h3rjnhj6f4yqzxa97pxf2ecxeq82ea8mwdyqfgns3a 's music show. I also mention nostr:npub1630v205x8rkg3gp6hh9emx402l36ze4hju0370046t6n9zhxmrvqgeaakc nostr:npub1hptfgg7nmt9gdzjwyk0j7pvlurngdqfez57gwcg7hxy05casfs0qsvuk7j and a few other things.

You can listen, too, on your favourite podcast app (and also on Spotify and YouTube)

https://james.crid.land/update/link-rot

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nostr:npub14xqqhck4h85rex0cszue6ge0pw8ycle97qj880g7p3mc29azjqasj0afu2 nostr:npub1df6eyr7x6cv4gq99h3rjnhj6f4yqzxa97pxf2ecxeq82ea8mwdyqfgns3a nostr:npub1ln5q8np5aezhtt7ztv6tah86xk4t3smjuchdvxp0u6uta056204q45xyw6 nostr:npub1g6plln20m4g7e42zedtrsxf08sc9mw2n23c6d2p02rf6302z4xkqyudgtx Podnews Daily - my biggest show - is exclusive to IPFS. All players support it: it just looks like a download - it's served using an IPFS(dot)io address but still in http. View the Podnews RSS to see it.

Prefix analytics works too, so OP3 or Podtrac, etc, will work fine. I've seen zero drop of OP3 stats, but significant cost savings for bandwidth, plus it means I can output a better quality file.

Dynamic ads won't work, no. Only a minority of podcasts use them.

nostr:npub14xqqhck4h85rex0cszue6ge0pw8ycle97qj880g7p3mc29azjqasj0afu2 nostr:npub1df6eyr7x6cv4gq99h3rjnhj6f4yqzxa97pxf2ecxeq82ea8mwdyqfgns3a nostr:npub1ln5q8np5aezhtt7ztv6tah86xk4t3smjuchdvxp0u6uta056204q45xyw6 nostr:npub1g6plln20m4g7e42zedtrsxf08sc9mw2n23c6d2p02rf6302z4xkqyudgtx OP3 numbers - I switched to IPFS entirely from Wed. No difference here.

(Arguably possible that the download itself failed after the OP3 prefix was triggered, but you'd assume at least one emailed complaint that my podcast wasn't working, given I'm doing around 1.5k downloads a day.)

nostr:npub14xqqhck4h85rex0cszue6ge0pw8ycle97qj880g7p3mc29azjqasj0afu2 nostr:npub1df6eyr7x6cv4gq99h3rjnhj6f4yqzxa97pxf2ecxeq82ea8mwdyqfgns3a nostr:npub1ln5q8np5aezhtt7ztv6tah86xk4t3smjuchdvxp0u6uta056204q45xyw6 nostr:npub1g6plln20m4g7e42zedtrsxf08sc9mw2n23c6d2p02rf6302z4xkqyudgtx Podnews Daily - my biggest show - is exclusive to IPFS. All players support it: it just looks like a download - it's served using an IPFS(dot)io address but still in http. View the Podnews RSS to see it.

Prefix analytics works too, so OP3 or Podtrac, etc, will work fine. I've seen zero drop of OP3 stats, but significant cost savings for bandwidth, plus it means I can output a better quality file.

Dynamic ads won't work, no. Only a minority of podcasts use them.

Over at nostr:npub1c0mfs58sj48hdy6u9dvkp7cvvyv946dy9nwshns7ahv6klx0s47sekdylq, we launched a color contrast checker for working with new color formats like oklch, display-p3, and so on:

https://www.oddcontrast.com/

What other features would you want from a tool like this? We're interested in feedback and ideas.

nostr:npub1j94ryq8jka4fwe74qt6z0m3s6wzrg5ahd9vqdpka3wksmcamu09sngmea9 nostr:npub1df6eyr7x6cv4gq99h3rjnhj6f4yqzxa97pxf2ecxeq82ea8mwdyqfgns3a nostr:npub1ln5q8np5aezhtt7ztv6tah86xk4t3smjuchdvxp0u6uta056204q45xyw6 The apps could give you speed controls by medium.

Even better would be speed a global speed control and a per show control. Pocket Casts has this level of control.

nostr:npub1n9jg6jh2y8tstg58ypjjsp0p4hsugkepraw49nygedx430arrm3qpfnza0 nostr:npub1j94ryq8jka4fwe74qt6z0m3s6wzrg5ahd9vqdpka3wksmcamu09sngmea9 nostr:npub1df6eyr7x6cv4gq99h3rjnhj6f4yqzxa97pxf2ecxeq82ea8mwdyqfgns3a nostr:npub1ln5q8np5aezhtt7ztv6tah86xk4t3smjuchdvxp0u6uta056204q45xyw6 I use this Pocket Casts feature every day (and it’s one reason why it’s hard to switch elsewhere). 1.4x for interview shows; 1x for music or highly produced stuff. If it’s not edited or post-produced, it goes faster. Works for me!

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nostr:npub1jtm4dxvu3ccgk60wvvt0uw9j9vz7nuc80f7agrv0vgkkushxk5zq0rrxtn so I tried playing your music show and the value time splits didn't work 🤦‍♂️ I think I found the error and fixed it though. I'm publishing a release tonight so the new version should be on the stores in the next 3 days.

nostr:npub12x8ywtnvel5r0frfzv45sj2xzws97dzt84t3wz6uxc5em9a2erws8fmjy3 Cool! No worries, it's just me fiddling about. Thanks so much for fixing it though... :)

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nostr:npub1jtm4dxvu3ccgk60wvvt0uw9j9vz7nuc80f7agrv0vgkkushxk5zq0rrxtn hello! I just manually refreshed the feed. Please try again.

And sorry about that. I think our parser has issues auto-detecting when an RSS feed updates, but a new episode has not been published with the update.

nostr:npub12x8ywtnvel5r0frfzv45sj2xzws97dzt84t3wz6uxc5em9a2erws8fmjy3 No problem. My chapters kind of work now. I also hadn't podpinged it properly, I don't think, but that's now done.

nostr:npub1kf7a2q5ma5myv2hmrvgfdu4waqv33xxecsp57m68xwuqgl4qxj8s5r0gax Hello! Looks like there's something broken for Podfriend - the console is complaining about invalid JSON.

nostr:npub12x8ywtnvel5r0frfzv45sj2xzws97dzt84t3wz6uxc5em9a2erws8fmjy3 Hello! https://podverse.fm/podcast/uPCWPzSE-B isn't showing the latest artwork or data: it's been podpinged, but... anything you can do to give it a kick?

Great to see the full launch of nostr:npub19x74lyqygyf7eewv7wycr967vqm0gsrd7lfcs43l95dvu8akmnrqaal0j5 which is an excellent, native Gmail experience for the Mac. I was on the beta many moons ago.

Went to the Banksy art exhibition in #Brisbane this morning. I assume - please - that these art information panels are a pastiche of bad writing?

After switching to #IPFS ... my server logs for Aug2's show reports 816 downloads of the Podnews Daily audio; a week ago, I got 1750 downloads for that day's show. OP3 reports no change in actual plays. So, IPFS doing a great job of significantly cutting down my site traffic, as I hoped it would do. Will look more closely into the stats and see what else is going on in a few weeks time. Go podcasting! /cc nostr:npub1g6plln20m4g7e42zedtrsxf08sc9mw2n23c6d2p02rf6302z4xkqyudgtx

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nostr:npub1jtm4dxvu3ccgk60wvvt0uw9j9vz7nuc80f7agrv0vgkkushxk5zq0rrxtn You edit? Your presentation is so good that I thought you just blew through these in one take without any post work. The myth and the legend turns out to be Man as well. Thanks for all you do for us podcasters James.

nostr:npub1s8972t575r2lmaxl9nct2feg8a3mfwhqu8xduyy0earavcxv6t2sxw78ky Ha! Thanks. Normally five or six edits a show. Tomorrow you should see a significant improvement in audio quality.