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@amugofjava downloaded. It’s a bit slow fetching the podcast data. Wondering where you’re getting that data from.

Also transcript button should hide or be grayed out when no transcription is available.

@russellharrower All the data is taken from the RSS feed, so it can get a bit slow depending upon its size and complexity. I need to try and find some optimisations in the XML processing.

Yes, I agree, that transcript button needs greying out when one isn't available. I'll fix that. Thanks very much for the feedback.

@amugofjava Ben, just wanted to give you an update, we have added anytime as one of the supported players that we now track - our podcast hosting platform is due to launch next month.

Interested in knowing what ways you have of adding new podcasts, do you have a submit API that we can add into our site to allow users to 1 click get listed on your app?

@russellharrower That's great, thanks. Anytime uses either the iTunes or PodcastIndex API to search for podcasts. After that, it's all driven by the RSS feed. Anytime itself doesn't have a backend or API.

@amugofjava that explains the slow load issues. Because you don’t control their servers all it takes is high demand or for them to go offline or block your request.

I would look at potentially catching the data in your own database. You could then build recommendation engine to recommend new podcasts based on my past listening experiences.