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0 pointsrickdeckard2y ago0 comments

It's not that trivial to do as an end-user. If I listen to a podcast on Spotify which I'd like to share with you (who doesn't use Spotify), I would have to Google that podcast and try to find a RSS-Link for it, which becomes more and more difficult as most pages now link directly to Spotify or Apple and provide no RSS-url.

Ideal would be an URI like podcast:// which apps could simply register for on OS-level, but I frankly don't know which entity would actually want to drive such a standardization.

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cxr2y ago

> Ideal would be an URI like podcast://

No, that would be far from ideal, for the same reason that the feed[1] URI scheme was flawed (cooked up by very confused people) from the beginning. And among other things, a podcast:// URI would now mean I can't open the thing in my browser unless my browser vendor adds support and I download the new version.

The file is served over HTTP(S). Just use the http or https URI. Podcast players need to do their part[2] in dealing with them.

1. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_URI_scheme>

2. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691360>

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