How do podcasts work on a technical level and how do we want to avoid common pitfalls with podcast hosting?Fundamentally podcasts are very simple. Everyone can host one and publish content with open formats like RSS. The devil is in the details as they say. Many platforms like Spotify and Apple Music have their own logic for handling podcasts. We dive into the pitfalls of hosting podcasts and the advantages of open statistics data for hosts.We will also talk about our plans on how to set up Open Podcast. We plan to use an open proxy (a little program that transparently tracks listens and subscribers).Spotify caches requests to episodes, which means our proxy can not track these requests.Therefore we also plan to fetch existing data from Spotify, Apple, and Amazon directly with so-called importers.LinksRSS 2.0 specification: https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.htmlHow Spotify caches requests (German): https://sendegate.de/t/spotify-und-die-hostingpartner/10387Transistor Spotify Passthrough: https://transistor.fm/changelog/spotify-passthrough/ HostsMatthias Endler (https://twitter.com/matthiasendler) Wolfgang Gassler (https://twitter.com/schafele)FeedbackEmail: echo@openpodcast.dev Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenPodcastDev CreditsThe theme music is “Orbiting A Distant Planet'' by Quantum Jazz and is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.