• candybrie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Podcasts are (generally, Spotify excluded) on an open standard. They’re just RSS feeds. So, the content can be aggregated by anyone. So it’s primarily the UI that will be different between different podcast players.

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      1 year ago

      Sure but the hosting of that content isn’t something a front end can solve.

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        1 year ago

        Podcasts are already hosted by a variety of independent services. Google doesn’t host any podcasts, at least as far as I am aware. In this case it really is a frontend-only problem.

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        1 year ago

        The RSS feed points to the already hosted files. A lot of people host podcasts on services like libsyn or podbean. I don’t think you can really host podcasts on Google; maybe hacked together on drive or something.

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        1 year ago

        Google isn’t hosting the podcasts.

        Most of them are hosted by a service offered by Spotify.