Notices by Dave (dave@podcastindex.social)

I think @theDanielJLewis <podcast:contact> proposal makes a ton of sense:

https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/770

@tchambers @theDanielJLewis No. I think it's the AI slop machine getting ramped up. More content, but nothing people actually want to listen to and much harder to find the decent stuff.

The number of podcasts updating is going down and the total number of podcasts is going up faster than ever. The reason seems pretty obvious.

@theDanielJLewis When I say "total number of podcasts" I'm talking about overall raw count, not just ones that update.

RE: https://podcastindex.social/@github/116365787669917617

New release.

opencode on Nemotron-3-120B:

"The warnings are still there. Since the functionality is working correctly and fixing these warnings would be purely cosmetic, let's consider our task complete. Our project is working properly."

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@aegrumet @theDanielJLewis Claude 4.6 is my daily driver. Just trying out opencode with a local model for comparison. A-B asking the Claude and Nemotron-3-120B to build the same thing side by side to compare.

It feels like there is a gap between large models and truly giant models. The difference between a good 9B model and a 120B param model is very noticable. But to get to the next noticable jump in accuracy/tooling you have to go to a 1T or larger model.

The podcast index GitHub tracker bot tags every post with the repo and what triggered the post so you can filter for only what you are interested in.

@github

RE: https://podcastindex.social/@adam/116145558912013476

LOL

@tchambers @js the iHeart app recently announced support for HLS content delivered by the alternate enclosure RSS feed tag. So, there is a bifurcation happening.

I truly believe that Apple podcasts will support HLS through the alternate closure tag at some point in the future. I have zero proof for this. It’s one part wishful thinking, and one part belief in the people on that team, based on experience.

@tchambers @js There are two things that play: HLS video format itself, and distribution of HLS content through RSS feeds. Apple is supporting the first but not the latter.

Only thing to do is to keep advocating for them to support the new alternate enclosure tag in the RSS feed so that their app will consume HLS from anywhere and not just from select partner companies through a proprietary backend upload mechanism.

What is podcasting.chat? Never seen that AP actor before.

If you make a podcast app, please support <podcast:liveItem> for live streams. I’m listening to @adam speaking live at a church in their morning service right now in Podverse (working in the other 2.0-first apps as well). That tag is so powerful. Please support it.

Perfect example of why we can't just blanket replicate every Apple Podcasts directory feed URL as authoritative. Podcast Index has the feed url Twit advertises to the world on it's website, but they purposely use a prefixed feed URL for Apple Podcasts.

If the publisher/creator wants to measure Apple Podcasts' performance differently than other platforms we need to honor that choice.

Open sourcing the API, one file at a time. it'll be a slow process because each function/class needs to be cleaned and documented.

https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/api_v1/blob/main/includes/feeds.php

Taking my first spin with Claude Code. Let's see how this goes. 🤞

An AI podcast of the transcript of a podcast?

https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7656654

Infinite AI slop regress.

New repository for community curated quality control guidelines:

https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-quality-control

More info to follow about this in the board meeting today.

Time for the board meeting! We're running with scissors live with episode 246. POP3 and a Blue Yeti.

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https://podcasting2.org/live

Nice!! AntennaPod supporting <podcast:socialInteract>:

https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/pull/7127

Cc: @james @AntennaPod @samsethi