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Thanks CBC for sending your lawyers after me for including your ...

2025-05-31T22:42:10+02:00

Thanks CBC for sending your lawyers after me for including your PUBLIC podcasts in Podcast Addict! Like every podcast app, we don’t host any content—we simply index public feeds. If you don’t want your shows in apps, mark them PRIVATE. End of story.

And yet again Google has suspended Podcast Addict. Now the app is ...

2024-10-08T06:29:09+02:00

And yet again Google has suspended Podcast Addict.
Now the app is supposed to be in violation of the Violen Extremism policy.
And the screenshot they provide is just a search result screen of some live radio screen.
Can someone help me understand what's wrong in the screenshot???

I don't know what more I can tell you. There's no ...

2024-09-03T02:18:28+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…9wvq
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I don't know what more I can tell you. There's no Automatic download by default in the app. If a user enables automatic download it only applies to NEW episodes (episodes with a newer publication date than the past one). If all the metadata are provided in the RSS feed (file length and duration) then the app just extracts the information from the RSS feed and does NOT access the episodes.

But FYI every app that doesn't rely on a server to retrieve ...

2024-09-02T04:37:49+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…7atc
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But FYI every app that doesn't rely on a server to retrieve new episodes will have to ping the file for missing metadata. If analytics tools are not able to filter access by IP address then yes I guess they will report invalid data... But it looks like you're insinuating that I'm trying to trick some stats on purpose... Not sure to understand what the point would be here. Why would I care is Podcast Addict is the 25th or 50th most used app?

Not sure how this is my fault if the analytics tools are unable ...

2024-09-02T04:31:50+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…7eyd
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Not sure how this is my fault if the analytics tools are unable to check the difference between an episode download and a range access that only gets the beginning of the file like Android API does. Also I was just describing what could cause an automatic access to the episode file in your case. If the duration is in the feed, then the app did not access the file. Only users with archive mode enabled or user who manually downloaded the episodes would trigger this

The app here retrieved the episodes and because some information ...

2024-09-02T00:01:59+02:00

The app here retrieved the episodes and because some information was missing (ie the episode duration) the app retrieved the information. The analytics /logs are reporting this as a download, but this was the Android Metadata retrieval API extracting the duration from the backlog episodes. If this information was provided or if the episodes were added using the pagination mechanism, then not a single episode files would have been called here

when a new episode is published the app retrieves missing ...

2024-09-01T19:46:38+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…qffw
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when a new episode is published the app retrieves missing metadata using Android API. Downloading the episode is a different unrelated thing. If the episode duration was in the RSS feed the app would not query the API to retrieve missing metadata. This does not happen when the user subscribe to a podcast. It's only for new published episodes after that. Adding thousands of new entries on an existing feed is not 'standard'.

my guess is that your logs shows the result of the Android ...

2024-09-01T16:15:32+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…t5lv
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my guess is that your logs shows the result of the Android MediaMetadataRetriever API which is used to complete missing metadata for new episodes. This is not called when subscribing to a new podcast but only for newly retrieved episodes after that

By default there's no automatic download from the app. Only ...

2024-08-31T17:35:37+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…s2pt
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By default there's no automatic download from the app. Only the list of episodes is retrieved and displayed. None of the audio files are downloaded out of the box

The app doesn'a download anything automatically by default. ...

2024-08-31T17:30:31+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…2lv4
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The app doesn'a download anything automatically by default. Even with automatic download enabled these older episodes are not downloaded as they have a publication date older than the most recent episodes. Only users who enabled the archive mode could have triggered automatic downloads as this is the purpose of this feature