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RiverHollow's avatar

There is one issue with doing dual video/audio. It appears to take away the option to download the mp3 which is there when it's just audio. While preventing you from using your player of choice, it also takes away those convenient rewind/forward buttons of its own.

Just figured out you can still pillage the private RSS feed file for a download link, but not quite as convenient.

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κρῠπτός's avatar

When I looked at it, on the desktop version of Substack, you get just the video, but if you use the app, the same page shows the podcast version and that gives you full playback options.

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RiverHollow's avatar

Don't mind me, I can manage with the RSS download method, at least.

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κρῠπτός's avatar

I am glad for the feedback. And you are right. On then desktop with podcast only, you get controls but not with the video. I like the visuals and the branding of the video posting, plus it really simplifies everything, cutting about 45 mins out of the whole posting process.

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κρῠπτός's avatar

Something to consider. It is still available on Apple and Spotify. There are two options on upload. One is to let Substack pull the audio for the RSS feed, the other I can manually upload a separate audio. Let me play around with it a bit and see. I have seen posts that have no the video and the audio player together on the same post.

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