The best podcasts from Australia revealed

The best podcasts from Australia revealed

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  • Blubrry’s Mike Dell highlights his 8 favourite podcasts. A brave man, he’s relegated his boss’s show to a section called “a few more”.


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  • Podurama is a free, multiplatform podcast app, which syncs between different devices. We’re on it. It appears to use the Apple Podcasts API.

  • Jack Rhysider wants Spotify to stop buying podcasts. In an opinion piece, the creator of Darknet Diaries - which is available on Spotify - claims that Spotify’s use of 'adversarial interoperability’ means “audiences don’t benefit from Spotify buying exclusive rights to shows”.

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  • Who supports what in the Podcast Index? This is a list showing the podcast hosts and players and what they support - so far.

  • “BrianofLondon” writes about how the podcast:value tag works using Bitcoin. If words like “a combination of a podcast player, a Lightning Wallet and mini node” mean something to you, it’ll help, a little.

  • The Podcast Index has launched a new API end-point, search/episodes/byterm. As yet undocumented, it will allow searching of individual episodes for words.

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Podcast News - with Vurbl

    Vurbl Voices
    On Vurbl Voices - get to know the co-founders of Vurbl with a behind the scenes launch episode. They talk about why they’re building the platform, developing the team, what they’re excited about most for Vurbl and what creators and listeners can expect from the platform. Listen on Vurbl
    Spotify has launched [X] on [Y], a new “show with music” containing one current musical artist going through the catalog of one of their favourite musicians.
    The Crown: The Official Podcast
    Play trailerThe Crown is back for a new season - both on Netflix and on podcasts. The podcast follows the show, episode by episode.

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