You most likely just don’t realize that your podcast app of choice actually gets its list of podcasts from Apple. That’s the authors point of Apple hosting it for free for everyone.
my feeds seem to all be: `<title>.libsyn.com/...`, `anchor.fm/.../rss`, `feeds.feedburner.com/<title>`, `feeds.megaphone.fm/<title>`, `feeds.simplecast.com/<title>`, `omny.fm/show/<title>`, `rss.acast.com/<title>`, `rss.art19.com/<title>`, and then a bunch of `<showname>.com/rss` for shows which host their own website and link a feed from there.
i recognize art19 as an amazon thing, and megaphone as a Spotify thing (or a thing which Spotify acquired?). i have no idea what any of the others are associated with. is one of those websites run by Apple?
The feeds - the actual rss files - are not hosted by Apple. But the index of those feeds (the podcast search engine essentially - how podcast apps turn 'Three Dudes Talking' into a libsyn feed url - is hosted by Apple.
yes, but the app you used to find that feed most likely used Apple's directory to find it. Unless you went to each podcasts web page directly and picked the RSS feed directly from them.
colinsane|2 years ago
i recognize art19 as an amazon thing, and megaphone as a Spotify thing (or a thing which Spotify acquired?). i have no idea what any of the others are associated with. is one of those websites run by Apple?
Kwpolska|2 years ago
Most (all?) feeds in there are not hosted by Apple. Many non-Apple podcast apps use this to power search and discovery features.
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