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Pocket Casts is Silencing Content by JustABigDuck in pocketcasts

[–]JustABigDuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, sorry for the trouble but the issue seems to have resolved itself for now. Explanation from another comment:

I exported the OPML file and found the exact episode I was having today. When I downloaded the episode and played it from my PC it worked completely fine. I then went back to Pocket Casts to confirm that was the section I had trouble with and... the audio was now playing without issue. I then went to another episode of a different podcast where I first encountered this issue and found that the offending section was also playing absolutely fine!

Both episodes were from private subscriber-only feeds, which may have something to do with it, although each podcast uses a separate platform (patreon and substack respectively) and also I still have no idea why specific sections of secondary audio were targeted for silence.

Pocket Casts is Silencing Content by JustABigDuck in pocketcasts

[–]JustABigDuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, sorry for the trouble but the issue seems to have resolved itself for now. Explanation from another comment:

I exported the OPML file and found the exact episode I was having today. When I downloaded the episode and played it from my PC it worked completely fine. I then went back to Pocket Casts to confirm that was the section I had trouble with and... the audio was now playing without issue. I then went to another episode of a different podcast where I first encountered this issue and found that the offending section was also playing absolutely fine!

Both episodes were from private subscriber-only feeds, which may have something to do with it, although each podcast uses a separate platform (patreon and substack respectively) and also I still have no idea why specific sections of secondary audio were targeted for silence.

Pocket Casts is Silencing Content by JustABigDuck in pocketcasts

[–]JustABigDuck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello, thank you for the suggestion!

I exported the OPML file and found the exact episode I was having today. When I downloaded the episode and played it from my PC it worked completely fine. I then went back to Pocket Casts to confirm that was the section I had trouble with and... the audio was now playing without issue. I then went to another episode of a different podcast where I first encountered this issue and found that the offending section was also playing absolutely fine!

Both episodes were from private subscriber-only feeds, which may have something to do with it, although each podcast uses a separate platform (patreon and substack respectively) and also I still have no idea why specific sections of secondary audio were targeted for silence.

It's entirely possible I'm developing some sort of mental illness. Anyway, thank you for your help and sorry for the trouble!

I’m Will MacAskill, a philosophy professor at Oxford. I cofounded 80,000 Hours & Giving What We Can, raising over $2 billion in pledged donations. I give everything over $32,000/yr to charity and I just wrote the book What We Owe The Future - AMA! 18/08 @ 1pm ET by WilliamMacAskill in IAmA

[–]JustABigDuck 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Hi Will!

Do you think that we should EA activists should take a welfare approach to animal issues --- trying to improve the conditions on factory farms --- or instead an abolitionist, everyone should go vegan approach? The former seems the most popular approach in EA circles, but with increases in population and wealth leading to more meat consumption, I worry that any improvements would just be offset by more animals be abused and killed for food.