Todd Cochrane

Founder Blubrry Podcasting and 18 year Podcaster

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2025-08-25 23:06:41 UTC

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Fully understand that, but you cannot be guaranteed that every chapter put in by the podcaster has art, and or every podcaster did art. If they opt in we can create it automatically.

2025-08-15 14:51:36 UTC

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We have a large number of people who are no longer receiving payments using their username@getalby.com address, and they do not start seeing sats flow again until they enter an LNURL.

2025-08-14 17:10:57 UTC

So, am I safe to say that since most apps? Are no longer doing ALBY lookups by address@getalby.com, so using anything besides the LNURL at this point is worthless. We are considering removing integration with Getalby from our dashboard.

2025-06-03 23:15:13 UTC

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If we do it, Cloudflare would be the place. I pay a single exit fee off AWS to put the media into Cloudflare; they do the rest of the work. I pay for bandwidth, which is much easier to swallow and cheaper by many multiples than AWS.
Until it isn't, Cloudflare loves to send letters and force you into fixed contracts. We big big big numbers associated. You have to read their fine print carefully.

2025-06-03 22:50:03 UTC

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Cloudfront would not be the solution I would use for HLS. It would likely be Cloudflare initially.
Then, as things scaled up, switch back to AWS or roll our own.
We did the math based on our CloudFront BW cost, which is "much" lower than your example.
No one, at least those we have talked to, considers AWS because there are more fees to consider
MediaConvert could be $1.00 per
S3 Storage .05 / Data transfer. .10
Cloudfront gb data rate x.xx
Cloudfront Request +.xx

2025-06-03 18:37:02 UTC

The HLS Discussion. Yes, I know that several hosts have seen the light (in terms of future survival) and are looking at HLS.
I want a definable commitment by all Podcasting 2.0 apps to support it.
If we, aka hosts, add this, it will come at a significant cost to deliver the media in HLS.
I am not spending a single dev dollar until there is a reciprocal commitment.
Video podcasting is supported today with no additional dev work.
There has to be a joint effort here.

2024-09-07 22:27:59 UTC

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Its not Apple.

2024-09-06 14:05:25 UTC

It has been the biggest week in a long time of show and episode takedowns at everyone's beloved podcast platform.
Everything we could review has us asking why. We cannot see everything they have pulled, but one thing is for sure: the political content is the focus.

2024-08-26 18:45:49 UTC

We are following Buzzsprouts' lead and have removed Blubrry's Podcast Insider from Spotify. I have also removed GNC. I need to discuss this with Rob before I remove NMS.

2024-08-16 13:42:51 UTC

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It was a hack; it has always been a hack. Now that there is a defined area under the content tag and, I guess, Live Item, I do not understand at all why it would be under Live Item because this could be uploaded content not associated with Live.

2024-08-14 15:26:04 UTC

@npub1rcn…dw4h I know you are updating the spec on a bunch of tags. When they are done, can you at minimum list the tags that have hanges and updates so I can point my Developers at the updated specs?
They are not following along here, and Mike Dell and I are the only ones from Blubrry following everything.

2024-08-12 19:57:16 UTC

I will be doing the first show in my rebuilt studio tonight. It should be interesting to see if it all works as it should.
I expect it to be a shit show.

2024-07-06 06:36:08 UTC

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Regarding Blubrry, we were a media company first and a hosting company second. After four years of incredible growth, we saw the handwriting on the wall as professional agencies showed up.
We were making things up as we went and the ad model had a downward trajectory. In 2008 I pivoted to a service-based company it saved us.
90% of decisions I make in regards to blubrry is how do i add value to our customers and add revenue.

2024-06-25 14:49:22 UTC

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Sounds like a great sales opportunity. Frankly its nefarious but hey keeps crap our of Apple Podcasts

2024-06-25 13:43:46 UTC

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Perfect

2024-06-25 11:22:50 UTC

@npub1rcn…dw4h where do I send my devs to find all the changes to the specs. I heard all these pull request being approved but where is the changelog. For those of us not living in the GitHub.

2024-06-11 04:22:11 UTC

Sad day changing my splits so the majority of my sats go to my node and not Alby.
We will likely be removing Alby as an integration partner in our V4V set up as a podcast host and looking to do something different.
This is our opportunity to figure out how to do this with FIAT. Maybe we can tokenize it. Podcast listeners can buy Tokens that can follow micro V4v and the tokens can be cashed out by the podcasters.
Need to think a bit on that.