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by Ryel 4139 days ago
Looks nice. I've been looking for a new podcast app for quite awhile since my old favorite was removed from the app store (acquired?).

How do you get content? do you have authors for permission or are you only hosting content that's free to distribute?

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We crawl and index freely available RSS/Atom feeds that podcasters publish. Technically (and legally) it's not much different from how Google crawls your blog. We don't currently host any content ourselves. But have plans to introduce a caching and transcoding layer to be able to guarantee a consistent user experience and low latency streaming. Which is hard to do when you don't host the content yourself or have any control over the coding of the files that is streaming.