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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • As someone who’s made a number of podcasts on and off over the years since 2007, much of this post resonates.

    However, I take solace in thinking that a podcast is just an extension of a broadcast; where a broadcast is, well, broad, a podcast is a self contained…cast. In a pod. Broadcasting covers audio and video, so it figures that podcasting would as well.

    With that in mind, my own style of podcasting, and my preferred format is personal stories. I love podcasts that are by people in their bedrooms talking about their lives, or by journalists who talk to regular folk. Regardless of what Spotify do, that style will always be out there, available on an RSS feed.

    I don’t use Spotify, I don’t use YouTube. If I can’t get it in my app then I don’t listen to it. And that’s OK.

    I really need to get back into it though. I used to love making them.



  • I ended up manually downloading my subscriptions using Freetube and yt-dlp and throwing them in my Plex server. I don’t watch a huge amount so I’m happy to spend 20 minutes a couple of times a week doing it. There are ways to automate the process but I’ve never been able to wrap my head around it.