Apple Podcasts
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Apple Podcasts is an audio streaming service and media player application developed by Apple Inc. for playing podcasts. Apple began supporting podcasts with iTunes 4.9 released in June 2005 and launched its first standalone mobile app in 2012. The app was later pre-installed with iOS beginning October 2014. The Apple Podcasts directory features more than two million shows. Apple Podcasts is available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, CarPlay, visionOS, Microsoft Windows operating systems, web browsers, and on Amazon Alexa devices. In 2024 does not support opus. Wikipedia
Website: www.apple.com
Owned by: Apple
Latest news
- Jun 19: Apple Podcasts appears to not be ingesting transcripts for new shows. We’re sure they’ll fix it soon.
- Jun 16:
less than ninety seconds from us publishing the show on open RSS to send us a notification. Apple Podcasts was consistently later: anything from ten to 18 minutes late.
- Jun 12:
If you host your podcast with Spotify for Creators, Spotify now supports publishing those transcripts using open RSS standards - using the Podcasting 2.0
podcast:transcripttag, which is compatible with Apple Podcasts, Pocketcasts, and other apps. Creators will have to opt-in to make them available. It’s the first time that Spotify has supported a new, open, RSS feature like this. So - we thought we’d publish a special show on Spotify for Creators as a test, and while the RSS feed includes the new podcast namespace, sadly transcripts haven’t yet been enabled for our show. But let’s wait and see. - Jun 10: Apple Podcasts will add a new “enhance dialogue” feature in playback, just like independent apps like Overcast and Pocket Casts have had for some time. The description is “Amplify just the voices in an episode for clearer listening”.
- Jun 5: Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, which was removed from Spotify after he called for Dr Anthony Fauci’s beheading, is back on the platform after an almost five year ban. The show had remained on Apple Podcasts and the Podcast Index. It self-hosts. (Apple is now able to remove specific episodes from its directory; it wasn’t in 2020).
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