Audio & podcasts

Every briefing is narrated, so you can listen instead of read — on a walk, a commute, or while the coffee brews.

Listening

There are two easy ways to listen:

  • On your briefing page — open any edition on the web and press play on the audio player at the top.
  • In your email — the audio rides along as an attachment, so you can play it right in your mail app. If you have an account, the audio block also links to the full edition in your dashboard; otherwise it links to your public page when your briefing has one.

Subscribe as a podcast

Beta Briefing publishes a real podcast feed, so your daily audio can show up automatically in the podcast app you already use.

Find your feed URL

In your dashboard, open Settings and find the Podcast & RSS section. It holds your Podcast feed URL, in this form:

https://betabriefing.ai/feeds/<your-channel>/<token>/podcast.xml

The <token> is a private, unguessable key unique to your briefing, so use the Copy button rather than typing it out. Treat the whole URL like a password — anyone you share it with can subscribe to your feed. If it ever leaks, ask us to rotate it: that issues a fresh URL and disconnects the old one.

Add it to your app

Most podcast apps let you add a show by URL ("add by URL," "add a feed," or similar). Paste your feed URL and your briefings will arrive in your queue like any other show. This works with Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro, AntennaPod, and other standard podcast apps — and the Listen as a podcast box at the foot of any edition in your dashboard spells out the steps app by app.

A note on Spotify

Spotify isn't supported yet — it doesn't accept arbitrary podcast feed URLs the way other apps do. Use one of the apps above in the meantime.

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