Post B0bXkWxmSR6ENeMSCu by theDanielJLewis@podcastindex.social
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(DIR) Post #B0bXkTIY5HKr0u2z1U by theDanielJLewis@podcastindex.social
2025-11-24T22:49:00Z
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When did Apple Podcasts _stop_ supporting MP3 chapter links? (This is _not_ an iOS 26.2 thing.)
(DIR) Post #B0bXkUb1G5hj2ThFS4 by james@bne.social
2025-11-24T23:29:21Z
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@theDanielJLewis Did they used to support them? Interesting.
(DIR) Post #B0bXkWAVPdgTupJ6P2 by james@bne.social
2025-11-24T23:36:12Z
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@theDanielJLewis If there’s evidence that they used to support them (has anyone done a YouTube video showing them, for example) it would be great to see. I can then cover that. What annoys me about the 26.2 thing is that it mostly supports links to other Apple properties (and does that quite badly imho).In these two screenshots - the link to Podnews (from the LINK tag) is ugly and doesn’t use any of the opengraph details.
(DIR) Post #B0bXkWxmSR6ENeMSCu by theDanielJLewis@podcastindex.social
2025-11-25T01:32:21Z
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@james BTW, this reminds me of a proposal from someone (maybe it was even me?) to support this kind of thing natively. Like allowing you to add "product" hyperlinks with Amazon ASIN, Apple ID numbers, and similar codes for resource-linking. But I think it proved inefficient for anything except bots when the podcaster could simply make their own "Amazon" and "Apple" links separately.
(DIR) Post #B0bXkXx6mQ9jRr3QnY by james@bne.social
2025-11-25T01:39:50Z
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@theDanielJLewis You can add the links into the chapters. As long as they're Apple-approved links. (Apple News is supported though)
(DIR) Post #B0bXkYzcuXlSfxExMW by adam@podcastindex.social
2025-11-25T12:55:19Z
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@james @theDanielJLewis Only allowing links to your own service is anti-competitive. And bullshit.
(DIR) Post #B0bXkepZCrHamUa0W0 by james@bne.social
2025-11-24T23:38:46Z
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@theDanielJLewis But, I guess, better that it’s there than not at all, like PWR.
(DIR) Post #B0bXkneuNr6YA2f7eS by james@bne.social
2025-11-24T23:39:44Z
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@theDanielJLewis And look at this link to Apple stocks!
(DIR) Post #B0cRtDyS1V0BWfOfia by james@bne.social
2025-11-25T23:24:25Z
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@adam @theDanielJLewis Agree - though it’s their house, their rules. There are some links I won’t let through Podnews’s link parser either (all malware).What I don’t quite understand is that they let through the main <LINK> from each item, but no other links.
(DIR) Post #B0dp5eLsGkRuujCt0q by adam@podcastindex.social
2025-11-26T15:19:11Z
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@james @theDanielJLewis
(DIR) Post #B0gSDw2afeYGcX34JU by theDanielJLewis@podcastindex.social
2025-11-27T21:47:04Z
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@adam @james I think we need to do more testing and verifications before we go saying that Apple is "blocking" non-Apple links.Certainly, their automatic "timed links" point to Apple platforms. But chapter links are different. And Apple certainly isn't breaking links in episode notes.