LA Times and Wondery launch new true-crime podcast

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• The Los Angeles Times and Wondery have launched Detective Trapp, a new true-crime podcast following Anaheim investigator Julissa Trapp, who unmasked a serial killer. Dirty John’s Christopher Goffard, who wrote and hosted the series, says that the podcast is “a profile of a detective of high competence and uncommon dedication”. (LA Times / Wondery / ART19)

• Libsyn has alerted its customers that Spotify will shortly be “passthrough” on their platform, allowing Spotify stats to be in the main Libsyn numbers. Libsyn have also released improvements to their show notes editor and file replacement tools.

• ClipGain·io is open for beta testers. The product is “one-click audio engineering”, promising to take your audio and filter it, level it, and make it “sound better than Roman Mars in one click”. There’s a video explaining it.

• The Castro podcast app now works with the Apple Watch.

• Spotify is investing in original podcasts for India.

• The host of Strong and Free, Christopher Balkaran, shares what he’s learnt after podcasting for a year.

• Chartable has quietly added a new feature for users of their SmartLinks which help you monitor your podcast marketing: now, there’s a way for you to automatically pull in the latest episode if you’ve just published it.

• Event: Radio TechCon, London, Mon November 25.

• Event: Queer Podcaster’s Meetup, London, Tues November 26.

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