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It seems bizarre to me that any serious podcast would fail to retain: - Their own backups of their master audio - Separate uploads to competing services with
by julienb_sea 4y ago
It seems bizarre to me that any serious podcast would fail to retain:
- Their own backups of their master audio
- Separate uploads to competing services with significant market share (e.g. Spotify)
It's not really surprising that Apple DRM-locks the audio files pulled from their podcast service. They should have messaged that better, but Apple has DRM locked everything coming from their music services for a very long time.
- brunoTbear 4y agoI think the author's point would be that Apple is doing this to non-serious or not-serious-yet podcasters. Let he who is without a data loss event cast the first "their own backups" stone. Given that nobody else DRMs podcast audio, this is deeply surprising.
- ascagnel_ 4y agoWithout having used their service, does Spotfiy not DRM their podcast audio? It seems weird that they'd have a separate code path to fetch a non-DRM'd file from their server when most (all?) of the music they serve is already DRM'd.
- bastawhiz 4y agoEven if you did retain the audio files, you still can't move your listeners to a new hosting service. You're forced to start over. Making you manually reupload your audio just adds insult to injury.