Man, I really hate platform specific podcasts that require a special player or account. Spotify in general seems to be “bad” about taking an open podcast out out through an rss feed that was playable anywhere and making it exclusive.
It’s a tale as old as time, but it’s the inconvenience of upsetting an ingrained personal habit (open podcast player, look for new episodes) and having to add an extra step (open Spotify, look for new episodes).
This is good for Spotify but bad for users. I want to organize my information and optimize my behavior. Not do dumb, unnecessary steps because it makes Spotify more money.
Is this discontent coming from the embedded player on the linked page? Because yes, that's a Spotify player, but in case you missed it: there are three links at the top of the page, for Google, Apple and Spotify. And if it's an old school RSS feed you want, here you go: https://cowenconvos.libsyn.com/rss
Thank you. Yes, I played around with the widget looking for the feed link and couldn’t find it. I should have searched around the page to see the other links. So this isn’t exclusive and I assumed using a bad embedded player was the result of being forced to use it, rather than some other reason.
Joe Rogan has entirely lost me because of this friction. I was only an occasional listener before but after trying one episode in Spotify I just gave up. The attempt to switch between video and audio only when locking and unlocking my phone, and the subsequent skip in audio, ruined it for me.
Indeed, same with me. I don’t think I’m a “super fan” enough to follow him and others to platforms.
I understand people switching and as much as I’d like to think that I would refuse $100M to switch my HN comments to a different, parallel, crappier internet; I suspect I would fail that test and take the $100M.
I think this is the real tragedy at the moment- it makes sense for content producers to switch to the highest bidder, and it makes sense for platforms like spotify to offer exclusive contracts. The end result is we all act rational and it still winds up worse for users- I don't really know what it would take for the incentives to change for the better?
It’s a tale as old as time, but it’s the inconvenience of upsetting an ingrained personal habit (open podcast player, look for new episodes) and having to add an extra step (open Spotify, look for new episodes).
This is good for Spotify but bad for users. I want to organize my information and optimize my behavior. Not do dumb, unnecessary steps because it makes Spotify more money.