@Leo I’m using my Apple TV to watch (not listen) video podcasts. I see you all have the audio version on Spotify. Any chance you could add the video version? Thanks!
I’ll check. If Spotify supports it we should be doing it!
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Thanks. I’ve searched in both the iPhone and AppleTV app and it’s audio only. A video podcast I watch called Darkhorse is on Spotify with both audio and video.
Ah Patrick Delahanty has explained it to me. Spotify only supports video if you use Anchor.fm to create it and it has to be under 250 MB.
We’ll, Darkhorse is close to 90 minutes of video…
Take a look there in Spotify.
I would think that’s more that 250 mb but not sure. It’s HD.
Take anyway.
Couldn’t you use Apple Podcasts instead of Spotify on your Apple TV?
This just seems to be the case for audio, not for video.
No specific file size recommendation
Video specs - Spotify
But I agree that it’s not ideal for Spotify to force you to use their own hosting service, even when it’s free. They could use an open RSS standard for video, but they decided not to.
Yes, and I’m hoping to keep all my video podcasts in one app. First world problem.
Spotify is the enemy of RSS-based podcasting. We would never use their hosting.
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Just seeing your comment two years later and I think I still agree with you. I just don’t trust Spotify as a host. Do you still feel the same? Just wondering if anything has changed in your mind.
We’re using Spreaker for now.
Never say never. We do now put both audio and video on Spotify.
My overarching tenet to be everywhere our audience is overides my general antipathy toward Spotify. Besides, they failed to kill RSS podcasting and got a bit of a bloody nose in trying.
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I saw Leo mention video feeds on Spotify are available on this week in tech but I’m not able to find on Spotify or links on twit.tv do you know if this is still coming to Spotify and when. Thanks.
The feed was easy to find with “this week in tech video”.
But this feed only has the new year’s episode. Same for all other feeds of the non-Club shows. The Club TWiT shows have all episodes.
Video feeds on Spotify
Hands-On Tech
Untitled Linux Show
iOS Today
Home Theater Geeks
Hands-On Mac
Hands-On Windows
I’m not sure what the reason for this discrepancy is.
We’re slowly adding all our shows in both audio and video to Spotify. It’s a weird process but eventually you should be able to find all the shows there.
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I am a club twit subscriber can some post a link to this week tech video club twit feed for Spotify? It does not show up for me when I search
Spotify doesn’t support private feeds, so TWiT will likely not add the ad-free feeds.
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I have been able to find all the shows I subscribe to Spotify Video Feeds. This Week in Tech, Macbreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Intelligent Machines. Feeds still only have the Holiday episode available. Any Updates on when New shows should start showing up in the feeds. Looking to consolidate in single player and I push stuff around a lot. Being on Spotify has finally enable watching on Fire TV, Echo Shows Apple TV all work now. The issue with using Apple Podcast is you are limited to only using Airplay to push the shows around. I have a mixed source Home so it would be nice to open up other options.
Video episode all started showing up today in Spotify. Everything is working great. The great thing is now I can start watching on my Apple TV in my Living Room move it to Fire TV Stick in my garage then move the audio over to my Echo Show in the Bedroom all without losing my place in the episode. This is great. Thanks
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