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Sam is the CEO of Truefans and the co-host of Podnews Weekly Review. Along with James Cridland, he talks with podcasters about their companies and career […] [bridged from https://podcastindex.social/@samsethi on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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@james do you know of any podcast that uses Podlove chapters so we can test against it? Thanks

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When you use TrueFans and the podcaster has NOT published their chapters or transcript, You can now request the creator publish their chapters or transcript if their host supports these tags.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Here we go ... https://truefans.fm/podcasting-20/67cb3b4bd55de476b76e7165

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1/3 - Another cool feature we are excited to update today is 'Co-Listen'. Now you can follow friends on TrueFans and see what they recently listened to or better still if they are listening live right now to a podcast episode. If they are listening live […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Rolling out a new feature later today. Some podcast hosts will love it. i.e the Podcasting 2.0 hosts and others will hate it i.e Podcasting 1.0 hosts. We are going to aggressively push creators to switch to Podcasting 2.0 hosts by pointing out to their fans why a podcast may not have published […]

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Tune.FM is an interesting new company. It compares to Wavlake and LNBeats. They also use a micropayment system based on a platform called Hedera Hash??? They use JAM Tokens for direct to musician payments from fans. They use gamification, social […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

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1/3 - TrueFans added a NEW "Support' Monthly payment option. On any podcast you can choose how much you want to pay a podcaster each month. You set an overall Support budget in your user settings. I have picked £20 per month as my support budget. I […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

1/3 - Today TrueFans added another three NEW features. 1. Friends Activity (NEW Icon on Header). - Quickly see which friends are online - green dot (i.e people you follow). - See what podcast episode they recently played. i.e their last play activity. - […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

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1/3 - On this week's Podnews Weekly Review our special guests are @adam Curry (co-inventor of podcasting) and @dave Jones (a key innovator behind Podcasting 2.0) talking about their new project Godcaster.fm - a new podcasting platform with a simple […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

EUROPE, WE NEED YOU! STAND STRONG! STAND UNITED! UK's Starmer and President Zelensky hug - a message to the Trump regime. Starmer is not very tactile, but he demonstratively left the publication and deliberately hugged the President of Ukraine for a long time […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

@james found the Buzzsprout 'Claim/Verify' option. You need to click Directories then Apple and you find the option.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This week's Podnews Weekly Review is published. Our special guests are Morten Strunge the CEO of Podimo talking about their amazing milestone of 1 million paid subscribers. Our other special guest is Jay Nachlis the Vice President of Coleman Insights […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

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3/3 - On the other hand, I have been trying to set up automated Support payments for Podcasting 2.0 for months, but those never seem to 'work'. Are you setting the support toggle in your user settings or in on the info popup on the individual podcast. Very happy to jump on a call and talk […]

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2/3 - Earlier this week we also added Import/Export for OPML. The 'Open' (subscription list) exchange format. We were surprised how other podcasting apps implemented OPML differently. The goods news is we support all OPML formats from Apple, Pocket […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

1/3 - NEW Folder View We just added our new 'Folder View' to TrueFans. So now you can quickly switch between list view, card view and now folder view. We will roll out this view to the homepage and other pages. You can also choose the default view you […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

@james l am looking in the buzzsprout admin dashboard for the place to enter the Apple verify code. I assumed their would be a verify code field and so TrueFans and other apps could use the same Verify code method.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

1/2 - TrueFans now supports OPML both import and export! Its funny because I thought OPML was a universal exchange format and there would only be one version of OPML? It seems not. Apple, PocketCast, Overcast, Podverse etc. all appear to have a […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

1/2 - X/Twitter Integration & Gamification now costs $10K for their Enterprise V2 API follower count access!!! 18 months ago we created and tested a very cool gamification feature in TrueFans. We enabled users to connect their X accounts to TrueFans […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

For those interested here are some of the key features TrueFans are currently working on. #roadmap. - Bluesky Oauth - Import OPML / Folders - Paid Chapters - make one chapter in an episode paid/secure - Offline - Add HTML/JS - Customised Domains […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Auto-Post Your Activities to X Today we have integrated sending all TrueFans user activities to X. In your user settings you enter your Twitter account and validate the account via OAuth. Then in your user settings you pick the Activity verbs you […] [Original post on podcastindex.social]

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Ok let me have it, tell me why this is such a bad idea. It lowers the costs for everyone including the creators who end up picking up a bandwidth excessive bill. https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/692 //CC @samsethi @merryoscar @dave

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