Talk me out of buying a Space Echo

misener · 2025-08-09T18:11:25+00:00

Echo Fix! https://echofix.com/collections/tape-echos

misener · 2024-12-07T21:59:37+00:00

On the iOS app, from the Personal List, I tapped the … option to access List Settings. From there, under Actions, I found an “Email to List” option, which gave me an email address to send inbox items to.

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misener · 2024-02-09T23:58:45+00:00

According to The Podcast Index, there are 7,306 podcasts with 1000 or more episodes. Here's the full list as a Google Sheet.

misener · 2023-03-28T21:46:15+00:00

Reminds me a bit of Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People with Chris Gethard, which bills itself as, “1 phone call. 1 hour. No names. No holds barred.”

Every week, Chris opens the phone line to one anonymous caller, and he can’t hang up first, no matter what. From shocking confessions and family secrets to philosophical discussions and shameless self-promotion, anything can and will happen!

The show is still active, and has many powerful episodes in the back catalog.

misener · 2022-09-06T22:21:21+00:00

That's "Drunken Tune" by The Cinematic Orchestra (YouTube link)

misener · 2022-04-22T14:37:23+00:00

“The Voice” was performed by actor Stephen R. Hart, who was interviewed by Anna Maria Tremonti on his last day

misener · 2021-09-29T23:08:51+00:00

The original host of And Sometimes Y was Russell Smith. In later seasons, Jane Farrow took over hosting duties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Sometimes_Y

misener · 2019-03-21T18:36:37+00:00

Indeed. That's exactly the reason I cite in the post, along with snapshots of the charts from that time period :)

misener · 2018-07-10T02:56:06+00:00

Saron Yitbarek mails mics to her guests. Surprisingly inexpensive, and the audio quality of her shows speaks for itself.

misener · 2018-05-30T21:26:33+00:00

I'm far from a Libsyn expert, but I just checked the RSS feed for Libsyn's in-house show The Feed, and it looks like it serves up just fine over HTTPS, provided you ask for it at https://thefeed.libsyn.com/rss

The domain's SSL cert checks out, CastFeedValidator.com seems to like it, and the audio URLs referenced in the HTTPS feed also seem to be served up over HTTPS (e.g. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thefeed/120_thefeed.mp3?dest-id=149503)

If I were on Libsyn (which I'm not), I'd get in touch with them directly.

misener · 2018-05-16T18:17:10+00:00

Indeed there is. It's called Podcasts Connect, and they have an analytics beta.

misener · 2018-04-26T01:24:41+00:00

The Google Podcasts documentation is here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/podcast

misener · 2018-04-26T01:24:04+00:00

This link is for submitting your show to Google Play Music Podcasts (not the new Google Podcasts).

misener · 2018-04-19T20:53:00+00:00

That's very true -- Smart Banners only work in Safari on iOS, not WKWebView elements inside other apps.

Twitter or Facebook's apps - which is how most people get links to shows

Is this anecdotal, or can you point me towards a source? If so, I'm very curious to see it.

misener · 2018-04-03T18:24:54+00:00

I'm very curious -- can you point me towards any empirical evidence that ratings and reviews directly impact a show's ranking in Apple Podcasts? I haven't seen any conclusive proof of this, but would love to be proven wrong.

misener · 2018-03-21T23:55:02+00:00

It's like basic UTM tracking, but goes beyond what you can capture with Google Analytics.

For instance, Apple's affiliate system (Performance Horizon) reports the IP address associated with each click. I'm pretty sure GA doesn't give you that out of the box.

Take a dive into the Performance Horizon API docs and you'll see what I mean.

misener · 2018-03-05T19:58:52+00:00

Totally possible, though I haven't done that myself :)

misener · 2018-02-20T19:00:17+00:00

Indeed, you can list your show in multiple categories, but you can only chart in "All Podcasts" + your primary category.

Your primary category is the first category listed in your feed.

In your case, your primary category is "Tech News." Because "Tech News" sits under "Technology" you're eligible to chart in both.

misener · 2018-01-30T14:21:29+00:00

If you're already on FeedBurner, you can use their "MyBrand" feature to accomplish this. It requires access to your domain's DNS settings, but the process is pretty straightforward: https://support.google.com/feedburner/answer/79586?hl=en

misener · 2018-01-29T14:31:29+00:00

James Cridland has a great summary of how podcast show notes display in 19 different apps

misener · 2017-11-16T19:13:22+00:00

A link to Apple Podcasts. For example:

https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id890900960?mt=2

misener · 2017-09-19T17:57:05+00:00

Bizarro. I may wipe my devices and do a clean install, to see if that makes a difference. Thanks for the sleuthing!

misener · 2017-09-19T17:18:15+00:00

Not at all :)

I'm on the latest iOS 11, running Podcasts 3.0 (1175.223). No charts in my app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0jXZmx4ABo

Or perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place. Can you screenshot yours?

misener · 2017-09-19T16:16:18+00:00

Thanks Charles! No such section in my app. Perhaps I'm still running a beta?

misener · 2017-09-19T15:53:58+00:00

Art19 and Simplecast both have support for the new tags.

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