Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

Registrations for http://podqueue.fm are now officially open! 🎉

@PodQueue is designed to make it easy to bookmark audio from the web (podcasts, lectures, interviews, radio segments) and listen to it later in your favorite podcast client 🎧

Please try it out and RT!

8/22/2021, 1:18:33 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

I’ve never been able to find anything that does exactly the core thing I wanted here (save almost any link with audio and everything just happens automatically and you can listen to it in whatever podcast player you want), so I built PodQueue

8/22/2021, 1:23:30 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

Before PodQueue, I found myself continually frustrated with the experience of trying to usefully bookmark a single episode of a podcast or something a friend recommended I listen to. I'd either have to hunt it down in my podcast player's podcast directory, or forget it forever.

8/22/2021, 1:26:38 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

There's services like Instapaper/Pocket for articles, and Pinboard for regular bookmarking—@PodQueue extends that concept and makes it easy to save audio on the web to listen to later.

8/22/2021, 1:29:16 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

I built PodQueue slowly in my spare time on nights & weekends, so it's been a long time getting ready (git shows my 1st commit as being on February 2nd 2019!), and in that time I tried to really hone it down at being truly excellent at that core function

8/22/2021, 1:32:27 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

I also wanted PodQueue to be fast, accessible, and respectful of users' privacy:

8/22/2021, 1:38:38 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

There's a lot of under-the-hood work that goes into "fast", but I'm pretty happy with where it's at. One example: whenever a playlist is updated, PodQueue automatically generates a static version of its podcast RSS feed, so that it can be served instantly via CDN when requested.

8/22/2021, 1:44:53 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

All this to say: please check out PodQueue, and feel free to give me any feedback on it!

It's 100% free to try for 30 days, with no obligation.

8/22/2021, 1:56:36 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

PodQueue is a paid subscription service, and the fee is currently just $5/month.

That seemed the best way to make PodQueue a sustainable service while respecting users' privacy, since the other way services like this stay free is with targeted advertising and selling user data.

8/22/2021, 1:56:36 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

I also wanted to be respectful of podcast creators’ content—as a result, PodQueue does not host any audio, and listens via PodQueue will still be recorded normally in most server-side statistics podcasters use: https://podqueue.fm/pages/help/podcasters

8/22/2021, 4:04:56 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

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If anything, I want PodQueue to help drive new subscriptions to podcasts by giving listeners an easy way to try out episodes that interest them

8/22/2021, 4:09:28 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

Part of the magic in PodQueue is the audio extractor I wrote—for the better part of 2 years almost any time I saw a link with audio I would save it in the beta version of PodQueue and make sure the correct audio link was extracted. It’s something I’ve never seen anywhere else.

8/22/2021, 7:58:48 PM

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Ryan Baumann / @ryanfb@digipres.club / ryanfb.xyz

@ryanfb

There’s plenty of features I’d like to eventually add to PodQueue, but there’s also features I’m proud not to add.

No algorithmic suggestions (there’s some hand-picked ones to start you out).

No social networking (there are enough social networks).

8/25/2021, 6:50:38 PM

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