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@Quantillion @Ruth_Mottram @AntennaPod
Every single one of those podcasts was delivered by RSS>
@pluralistic @Ruth_Mottram @AntennaPod
Delivered where?
Are others I've downloaded from YouTube (& other sites) also delivered by RSS?
I don't subscribe to a feed reader, download podcast apps or give any of them my email address.
(I've nothing against RSS.)
@Quantillion @Ruth_Mottram @AntennaPod The program you use to download podcasts, whether that is Apple Podcasts, Antennapod, or something else, is an RSS reader.
Podcasts are structured as attachments inside of an RSS feed. The way you listen to a podcast is by downloading and playing an MP3 (streaming is just a form of downloading).
It is downloaded to your device by your podcast app.
The way the podcast app finds those MP3 files is by loading and parsing an RSS feed.
@Quantillion @Ruth_Mottram @AntennaPod a podcast is an RSS file with a series of entries, each of which has a link to an MP3, some show notes, and sometimes a few extra tags such as duration, author, etc etc (RSS is very flexible and allows for custom Fields).
Podcasting was what happened when early RSS developers got the idea of using it to deliver MP3s whenever they were posted to someone's website.
@Quantillion @Ruth_Mottram @AntennaPod you don't even need a podcast app to to download podcasts. You can just use a regular RSS reader. Because a podcast is an RSS feed.
If you have ever gotten, say, a PDF mixed in with your podcast feed as some podcasts do as extras, that is just another way that RSS can be used to deliver all kinds of files.
@Quantillion @Ruth_Mottram @AntennaPod When you use RSS to subscribe to a website, a packages up each new entry as a blob of HTML and delivers it. When you use it to subscribe to a podcast a packages up each entry as an MP3 and delivers it. It's all just RSS. RSS is great. This is just one example, I bet there are 10 ways in which your regular internet usage relies on RSS feeds even if you are not aware of it.
I bet there are 10 ways in which your regular internet usage relies on RSS feeds even if you are not aware of it.I think I might be one of the few exceptions, as I can’t think of any single example of my regular Internet usage that would rely on RSS ;)
(I might be wrong obviously, I’m mostly posting that in jest as it might turn into a learning opportunity)
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@vv221 @Quantillion @Ruth_Mottram @AntennaPod
There' s an extremely high likelihood that the sidebars of blogs or news-sits you use are refreshed with RSS.
Same for the back-end triggers on email alerts you receive (e.g. from a local government, your kid's school, or even your employer).
Saying "I never use RSS" is pretty similar to saying, "I don't use HTML."
About the e-mails I get, very few are notifications (I don’t have kids, and am unemployed), but I can’t say for sure the couple ones I get are not relying on RSS at all (I suspect they are not, because most come from systems I maintain, but I do not know their whole codebase so I might have missed some reliance on RSS).
I guess I have a quite unusual usage of Internet (not a lot of Web, mostly IRC, XMPP and SSH), that‘s in part why I suspect my RSS usage is low or even inexistent.
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@pluralistic @Ruth_Mottram @AntennaPod
I've never had anything else mixed in with the audio or video I download (as, most commonly, mp3 or mp4 files.)
@pluralistic @Ruth_Mottram @AntennaPod
Is Video DownloadHelper an RSS reader? 4K Video Downloader? (They also deliver mp3 files + other audio, video & subtitle formats, if selected individually.) (There are several others, including professional online A/V services that store & encrypt media files before delivering them in their A/V format.)