163 Headliner, VBR and It’s Private

The new Libsyn release which includes Headliner integration, yipeee (ya’ll people are really digging it), discussing the PRX privacy summit, the podcast academy, all kinds of feedback and of course stats stats stats! The latest mean, median, user agent and geographic!

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Quick Episode Summary

  • :07 Intro!
  • 1:35 PROMO 1: The Renaissance Festival Podcast
  • 2:08 Rob and Elsie conversation
  • Right into Libsyn 4.23 Release – Headliner support! And so much more
  • Apple is once again kicking a bunch of folks out of Apple Podcasts, we tell you why
  • Why you need a podcast host that supports byte-range request and don’t use your podcast on Google Drive
  • Nope, you cannot just publish to Apple Podcasts
  • 19:20 Auphonic and ID3 Tags question from Kit
  • No way to change the episodes Apple Podcasts suggests you listen to
  • Prompting Spotify to play the most recent episode first
  • Feedburner has added an engineer!
  • The PRX Privacy summit was private!
  • And a discussion about the Podcast Academy
  • 35:17 PROMO 2: Tabs and Spaces
  • Why so many peeps using VBR instead of CBR
  • Looks like Spotify trailers are looking good!
  • Why are all my episodes after 100 missing?
  • A new Discoverability podcast survey
  • 55:04 PROMO 3: Think Energy
  • Apple Podcasts has crossed more than 900,000 podcasts!
  • Mean and media numbers
  • Geographic and user agents

Featured Podcast Promos + Audio

Thank you to Nick from MicMe for our awesome intro!


Podcasting Articles and Links mentioned by Rob and Elsie

Where is Libsyn Going? (In Real Life)


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