Podcasts have ads directly in the audio, similar to sponsorship ads in YouTube videos and on other platforms directly in the video the creator uploads. I was wondering when an open source solution to that would come out, similar to sponsorblock for YouTube, but I guess Spotify is first.
Podcasts are still slightly different, as the easy pliability of audio means podcast hosts inject ads based on your location and other factors into the audio stream instead of just going with one single global ad for everyone. But you still only get the audio stream from the regular podcast host, which is why classic ad blockers don’t work. A community-run solution might be "for podcast id 123 skip from audio fragment “sponsor” to “welcome back”. Just purely going by time (skip from 10:00 to 10:30) wouldn’t work, as ads can be longer or shorter. There can also be multiple ads back to back even if they’re a standard length.
A service like Spotify at least partially hosts its own podcasts and probably does the ads for those podcasts itself, so it can just leave them out. If Spotify proxies podcasts from elsewhere, it can detect (via querying the podcast multiple times from different locations) where the dynamic bits of the podcasts are and cut them out. That could also be a community solution, though it would require more computational resources. A centralized service like Spotify makes it easier. Spotify is also AI-happy, and what they’ve actually done might be to just train an AI on ad segments, and let the AI cut those segments out.
By the way, YouTube already skips some creator sponsorships with their premium service.
I cannot think of a single good podcast. I say that, then someone recommends six. I listen to a few, each just as insufferable as the next. Same shit each and every one. Some twatwaffle just blathering about nonsense.
I don’t know a single intelligent person who listens to them.
If you get blasted with boner pill ads during a podcast, you deserve it.
I wish Spotify would make the default view music and not books and podcasts.
The only podcast I actually got into was the Always Sunny podcast, which kinda ended abruptly when their schedules got too hectic. I tried Dropping Names with Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner but after a few episodes it got kinda dull with their mostly posting demeanor and them trying to just shoehorn as many names into stories as possible.
What I liked about Always Sunny podcast was it was the guys watching the episodes for the first time and would usually share a lot of great behind the scenes content while also BSing. If you’ve watched the whole series multiple times it’s really entertaining.
Since when does Premium even have ads? 🤨
Podcasts have ads directly in the audio, similar to sponsorship ads in YouTube videos and on other platforms directly in the video the creator uploads. I was wondering when an open source solution to that would come out, similar to sponsorblock for YouTube, but I guess Spotify is first.
Podcasts are still slightly different, as the easy pliability of audio means podcast hosts inject ads based on your location and other factors into the audio stream instead of just going with one single global ad for everyone. But you still only get the audio stream from the regular podcast host, which is why classic ad blockers don’t work. A community-run solution might be "for podcast id 123 skip from audio fragment “sponsor” to “welcome back”. Just purely going by time (skip from 10:00 to 10:30) wouldn’t work, as ads can be longer or shorter. There can also be multiple ads back to back even if they’re a standard length.
A service like Spotify at least partially hosts its own podcasts and probably does the ads for those podcasts itself, so it can just leave them out. If Spotify proxies podcasts from elsewhere, it can detect (via querying the podcast multiple times from different locations) where the dynamic bits of the podcasts are and cut them out. That could also be a community solution, though it would require more computational resources. A centralized service like Spotify makes it easier. Spotify is also AI-happy, and what they’ve actually done might be to just train an AI on ad segments, and let the AI cut those segments out.
By the way, YouTube already skips some creator sponsorships with their premium service.
I guess podcasts do.
I cannot think of a single good podcast. I say that, then someone recommends six. I listen to a few, each just as insufferable as the next. Same shit each and every one. Some twatwaffle just blathering about nonsense.
I don’t know a single intelligent person who listens to them.
If you get blasted with boner pill ads during a podcast, you deserve it.
I wish Spotify would make the default view music and not books and podcasts.
The only podcast I actually got into was the Always Sunny podcast, which kinda ended abruptly when their schedules got too hectic. I tried Dropping Names with Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner but after a few episodes it got kinda dull with their mostly posting demeanor and them trying to just shoehorn as many names into stories as possible.
Podcasts are just people bullshitting. It’s a replacement for friends or something. I don’t get it. There’s basically no content.
There’s plenty podcasts where university professors explain their discipline.
What I liked about Always Sunny podcast was it was the guys watching the episodes for the first time and would usually share a lot of great behind the scenes content while also BSing. If you’ve watched the whole series multiple times it’s really entertaining.