https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast says "Podcasting is the preparation and distribution of audio or video files using RSS feeds to the devices of subscribed users."
Spotify does not have a trademark on rss podcast delivery. RSS feeds have historically been the primary delivery method for podcasts and it long predates Spotify and the JRE. Many of the most popular or historically significant primarily used RSS: Serial, This American Life, Stuff You Should Know—the list goes on and on. Some podcasts are distributed via video, but even many of those also have a corresponding rss feed for the audio version.
I didn't claim it had a trademark, but if you literally skipped entirely over the comment I was responding to: he quoted the Spotify docs for their podcast APIs as an argument why podcasts are RSS/MP3
And his second link literally confirmed how entirely wrong his own claim was, within literally the first paragraph. Which you seem to have skipped over too....
So where does that leave us? With now two very confused commentors that seem to be unable to read, hence my previous quip about reading comprehension
In case your genius mind wasn't able to comprehend this amazing concept: the technical implementation of most podcasts in 2000s does not define the concept of a podcast.
Yes, once upon a time, that was the most common way podcasts were distributed. It however wasn't the definition of the word "podcast".
Did you get that, or was that once again too complicated for you?
That is definitively what they were when the term "podcast" was new and I was trying to figure it out - and in any case this seems like rather pointless hairsplitting.
I'm not going to dictate MP3, but yes: podcasts absolutely are an audio file pulled from an RSS feed. Your description covers some podcasts, but not every podcast has video (which should be entirely optional if it's there at all, and frankly makes it less of a podcast in my opinion), and many go through some pretty heavy editing, even if just to balance audio levels, prune dead conversational branches, and remove filler words or dead air.
You're being pretty abusive in this thread, which in turn has provoked others to be abusive, which is why the guidelines specifically on comments say things like this
- When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
- Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
- Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
You'll see one of your most abusive comments has been flagged. You'll find that happening more and more to you if you continue to comment like this.
