I was going to get back into podcasting, but I found out yesterday that Anchor is now Spotify for Podcasters. Then I found out that those easy tools that Anchor had that were transferred to Spotify for Podcasters are going away in June and being replaced by Riverside. I tried Riverside and it's awful. I couldn't get it to recognize my microphone. Then when I got it to recognize my microphone and I went into their studio I was totally lost. I finally managed to record a sound snippet and I couldn't find any intro/outro/background music. I found a few sound clips for things like drumrolls and applause. I tried asking Spotify for Podcasters' stupid chatbot if the old Anchor features are going to be transferred to Riverside but of course it didn't understand me. Do any of you know if those easy features from Anchor are going over to Riverside in June or am I just going to go back to finding royalty free music and making my own intros and outros and putting everything together in Audacity?
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Embedding Anchor podcast to Squarespace site
You can definitely copy the audio embed code from Anchor and paste it into any page on your Squarespace website as described here - Embed Blocks – Squarespace Help. Just make sure you're copying the full embed code with the iframe tags and you should be alright.
You can also add a feed block that would list your episodes from the RSS feed.
Otherwise, you can check a podcast-centered website platform like Podcastpage.io which would import all episodes automatically for you and allow you to use a custom audio player or the Anchor embedded audio player.
More on reddit.comAnchor or Buzzsprout
It depends on your circumstances. Does your podcast bring in revenue? If it does, then Buzzsprout is a good option. If it doesn’t, like ours, then use Anchor. No sense in paying money for a hosting site if you’re not making any of that back.
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I think that Anchor will categorize your podcast the same way you do on all the places it posts your podcast. So, if you label it “leisure” on Anchor, it’ll be leisure on Spotify, too, which is important because it will define who sees it depending on what category they’re searching for. I could be wrong here, though!
More on reddit.comSongs Not Playing - Spotify Anchor Podcast
Yo, I'm having the same problem. Listening to 'The Blues Kitchen Radio' pod. Keeps intoducing songs then not playing them. I did manage to get the track playing by manually moving the timer bar along a little bit. But that's not ideal.
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