<ul><li>Pocket Casts, a podcasting platform, has made its web player free for everyone. Previously, the web player was only available to paid subscribers.</li><li>The free web player allows streaming of any public podcast feed, offering controls like playback speed and playlist queueing.</li><li>Users can create an account to sync playback progress, manage the queue, bookmark episodes, and save listening preferences. Free access also applies to Pocket Casts' Windows and Mac clients.</li><li>Pocket Casts aims to keep podcasting open and accessible, taking aim at Spotify and other platforms that have introduced proprietary formats for podcasting.</li></ul>

Pocket Casts makes its web player free, takes shots at Spotify and AI

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