Please add login support for NY TImes Audio
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Here’s a form you could fill out to let the NYT know your concerns. The area of the site where you can submit requests is here: https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Hello,
I use the app PocketCast for my NYT audio listening. I’m dismayed by the choice of NYT to use only Apple and Spotify for their podcasting. I hear ads on the podcasts all the time about responsible journalism, yet this seems at odds with one goal of most publications: to have their news heard by the most people they can. I pay for a subscription specifically to support NYT audio journalism. Please consider supporting the PocketCast app for users of NYT audio.
Best,
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@cothebadger thanks for sharing this with us. We are in contact with NYT and hope to come up with a solution, but appreciate all of the feedback coming through!
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@gassime The Good Whale is now showing all episodes.
@cothebadger @kapods22 As mentioned previously, you should still be able to access all episodes via Pocket Casts. If you’re having trouble, please let us know which podcast is affected so we can look into it. Thanks!
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@staff-donnie Two more that are just showing the first two episodes: The Kids of Rutherford County; S-Town.
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Hi there, @notanyron, and @pocketcasts77bf3970c0! I checked on the podcasts you mentioned and found that they have several episodes that are limited to Subscribers Only. This is why you only see the first two or three episodes listed in Pocket Casts. You need to subscribe via the New York Times app to listen to the rest of the episodes.
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@staff-eleanor the original intent of this request was that subscribers could log into NYT via Pocket Casts so they wouldn’t have to use the NYT app. @staff-donnie mentioned in March that all episodes of all NYT podcasts should be accessible via Pocket Casts.
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Hi @notanyron! Sorry for any confusion there. I’ve asked about The Kids of Rutherford County to find out if it is possible to include that podcast too.
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NYT claim that there is support for login in Pocket Casts but this seems to not be the case: https://help.nytimes.com/30729304846612-link-your-new-york-times-account-to-other-podcast-platforms
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OMG it worked for me! Thank you NYTimes.
Thank you for sharing the link. It was a lot of reloading, but I finally found the premium feeds and added them to my Pockcasts. -
I have found a solution that works but was painful to implement….
- Go to New York Times Audio – The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher on a computer (the website wouldn’t work properly for me on an iPhone using Safari or Edge)
- Sign in. It will show a widget box (run by supercasts) that you are supposed to be able to click on and then select your podcast player of choice. The only trouble is it gives you about 0.1 second to make a selection before disappearing. I use Edge but maybe it works better on other browsers….I worked around this by inspecting the element and then searching through the source code for a link referring to Pocket Casts.
- Clicking on that link took me to a QR code (hosted by supercasts) which I then scanned on my phone.
- Then I finally got a list of all NYT podcasts which I could use to subscribe to the premium feed within Pocket Casts.
Painful but it works…
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Is this independent of linking my account with Pocketcasts? I haven’t fretted over this too much since because I haven’t tried to listen to older podcasts lately but could see it being an issue for me in the future.
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@envoy510 I just used @jwtyson’s method. You need to right click the screen and select “inspect element”. Then on the left where the HTML is, CTRL+F to search the area. I searched “pocket” and got a link that I copied and pasted into my browser bar which then gave me a QR code to scan with my phone which let me select which Pocketcast feeds I wanted. It’s kookoo bananas, but it did work. Seems like a coder needs to take one minute from their day to make sure that dropdown doesn’t disappear, and a whole lot of us would be happier.
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Link should look like this: https://nytimes-podcasts.supercast.com/subscriber_v2/players?player=pocket_casts&subscription with a lot of junk at the end.
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@envoy510 I had the same issue using Safari and Edge (essentially chrome) but @cothebadger’s explanation is the way to work around the issue. Thx @cothebadger
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