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I don’t understand why people use Spotify for podcasts.

There are plenty of search indexes that return the rss/atom feed, and you can download the audio files direct from the publisher.

What does adding a middleman buy?

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The middleman already serves music, so it's convenient instead of "just setting up an rss reader". That's an extra app/site to keep checking instead of just opening the one you already use for audio-related entertainment.

Listening to podcasts on my computer, I want to go and do some cleaning, so I switch it over to playing on my phone seamlessly so I can walk around the house listening. Spotify is the only solution that I know of for this.

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