Podcasts, Video and Other Media

Feedpik is a reader, and that shapes what it does with anything that is not text. Podcasts get real support. Video does not, and this page is straight about why.

Adding a podcast

Paste an Apple Podcasts link or a direct RSS feed URL in Discover Sources. Apple links resolve to the show's own feed, which is what actually gets subscribed — Apple is a directory here, not a provider, so the show arrives the same way any other feed does.

That also means a show that has left Apple but still publishes will work from its feed URL, and a show that exists only inside a walled-off app will not work at all.

Why podcasts are a separate list

The tabs above the article list switch between Articles and Podcasts, and they never mix.

An item counts as a podcast when the feed shipped an audio file with it. So the split follows what the publisher actually published, not how you filed it — a blog that occasionally releases an episode has its posts in one tab and its episodes in the other, automatically.

They are separated because the decision to read and the decision to listen are made at different times and in different circumstances. A list that interleaves them makes you sort it yourself on every visit.

The player

Open an episode and a player sits above the shownotes: play, scrub, volume, and an Open audio link if you would rather take the file somewhere else.

It is deliberately plain, and there are two limits worth knowing before you rely on it:

It does not remember where you stopped. Leave halfway through an hour-long episode and it starts from the beginning next time. For a long show, note the timestamp or use the Open audio link with a real podcast app.

It does not queue. One episode at a time; switching loads the new one and discards the old.

If podcasts are most of your listening, treat Feedpik as the place you discover and triage them, and a dedicated app as the place you listen. If they are an occasional thing alongside your reading, the player is enough.

Episode duration shows next to the player when the feed supplies it. Many do not, and there is nothing to be done about that at this end.

Everything else podcasts get

Episodes are articles as far as the rest of the product is concerned. Shownotes are the body text, so an episode can be summarised, explained or translated by the AI actions like anything else — useful for deciding whether an hour is worth spending.

They rank, they can be saved and liked, and they count towards your source cap the same way.

Video, and why there is no YouTube tile

Discover Sources used to offer a YouTube entry alongside Reddit, Mastodon and Substack. It was removed, and the reasoning is worth stating because the capability did not go anywhere.

Feedpik has no video player. Every YouTube item leads off-site. A logo sitting between Reddit and Substack reads as "supported the way those are" no matter what the hint underneath says, and nobody reads the hint before clicking a logo they recognise.

So what was withdrawn was the promise, not the function. Pasting a YouTube channel URL still works — the site advertises its own feed and Feedpik finds it — and you will get titles, descriptions and links that open on YouTube. That is a reasonable way to track a channel's uploads in the same place as everything else. It is not a way to watch anything here.

The same applies to any video source: it will resolve if it publishes a feed, and it will be a list of links.

If something looks wrong

The Podcasts tab is empty — nothing you follow ships audio, or the feed advertises episodes in a form the ingest did not capture. Adding the show from its Apple Podcasts link is the most reliable route.

An episode shows no player — the feed did not attach an audio file to that item. Some shows publish text posts and episodes through one feed; the text ones have no audio by definition.

The audio will not play — try Open audio. If the file plays there and not inline, it is a format your browser will not handle in a page; a podcast app will.

No duration is shown — the feed did not declare one. Nothing at this end can supply it.

A YouTube channel I added shows no video — expected. It is a list of links to YouTube; there is no player here.