We’ve been using the Patreon platform since 2015 and when it introduced private Audio RSS Feeds in those early days, it had originally been intended for people that produced a single podcast/show, hence a single RSS Feed. Previously we’d used breaker: Tier Tweaks and Breaker, an App: Causality Premium, Anchor and most recently: Subscription via Spotify Changes.
Lucky for us, Patreon FINALLY came to the party and two months ago introduced individual, separate feeds for podcasts hosted on Patreon! YAY! Unfortunately it took a reasonable amount of effort to go back over every episode (several hundred) and update them to associate them with an individual show. Once that effort was completed, we could finally create and synchronise the most relevant ones to Spotify as well!
Unlike previously now there’s a great article on Patreon about how to find the RSS Feed URLs for your show of choice. If it’s been posted as Audio or Video content on Patreon, it now has its own RSS Feed you can access on ANY podcast player. Patreon’s system now includes video, sorta, insofar as it will extract the Audio from the Video and add it to the feed. Hence for Video-first podcasts you can only get the Audio in the RSS Feed via this method. The only other ways to get a Video ahead of public release is to subscribe via YouTube (can’t be integrated with Patreon), or to view the Videos within Patreon’s Website or their app.
We’ve chosen to synchronise actively produced shows with Spotify for those that prefer to subscribe via Spotify. Remembering that this requires you to link your Spotify account to your Patreon account, but once you’ve done this they’ll all play just fine. There is now a separate feed for non-show TEN Bonus material: things like Q&A, Patron updates and so on.
To Summarise what is where:
| Show / Feed | RSS | Spotify |
|---|---|---|
| Causality | X | X |
| Whisky Whiskey | X | X |
| Pragmatic* | X | X |
| Analytical | X | X |
| TEN Bonus | X | X |
| TD Post-Cast | X | - |
| Sleep | X | - |
| Pragmatic Electric | X | - |
Note: Pragmatic only exists in Patreon from Episode 80 onward.
The RSS Links are Private RSS Links and should not be shared. I’m told Patreon have an algorithm they use to attempt to detect re-shared links that can lead to your Patreon account being disabled, so please don’t share your Private RSS Audio links publicly.
New Spotify Links for all Patreon-Feed Shows:
For those supporters that are only interested in Pragmatic…you can now just subscribe to the Pragmatic feed without it being clogged up with Analytical, Bonus Materials and so on. If you’re a big Causality fan but don’t care about Whisky, or falling a-Sleep, you can now just subscribe to the Causality feed.
One more detail is that the previous “The Engineered Network Patreon” feed has been updated to include everything that is now flagged as a “Podcast” which now includes Whisky Whiskey and Pragmatic Electric and is a true representation of everything available in one feed.
It’s great that Patreon finally caught up. This has been top of the list from the periodic Patron Creator survey they send around every year or two and I’m pretty confident that some of TEN’s Patrons will be very grateful for it.
As always, thank you everyone for your continued support and I hope you enjoy the improved flexibility in listening to our shows.