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Come along to TrueFans, look around on the homepage, go to podcast pages, episode pages

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and you can play any episode you like without you having to have an account. All of your

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activity then gets added to your personal dashboard so there are a lot more features

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when you get an account.

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Welcome to Fanzone, your bite-size guide to getting the most out of the TrueFans podcast

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app. In each episode we'll discuss an aspect of the app and hopefully answer any questions

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you may have about it. Plus, when you listen to Fanzone in TrueFans, you can earn as you

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listen and use your earnings to support your favourite podcasters.

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I'm Claire Waite Brown, independent podcaster and all-round podcast enthusiast.

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And I'm Sam Sethi, the CEO and founder of TrueFans.

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This time we're going to have a little chat about signing in, whether to sign in, whether

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not to sign in. As a newbie, I've come along and I'm exploring everything that the TrueFans

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podcast listening app has to offer. Sam, am I correct in believing that I don't need to

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sign up for an account to do that?

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You are correctly. You can come along to TrueFans, you can look around on the homepage, go to

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podcast pages, episode pages, and you can play any episode you like and it will play

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without you having to have an account.

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Okay, brilliant. There is also the option to create an account. What are the advantages

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to the listener of doing that?

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So the biggest advantage is first of all, you get a wallet and then you get some tokens

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added to that wallet, which allow you to reward your favourite podcasters. Then you can also

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get a library of all of your activities so you can see what podcast episodes you're listening

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to. You can then create playlists and also at the same time, you can start to get a record

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of your activities so you can see how long you played a show, how much you paid a creator,

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maybe you suggested a new podcast. All of your activity then gets added to your personal

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dashboard. So there are a lot more features when you get an account, you can start to

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use the app properly rather than just listen to a podcast episode.

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Yeah, so you've got those two levels. You can use it literally to listen to shows or

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you can get a little bit more involved by actually signing up. Do I need to sign my

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soul away to the devil? What does a listener have to actually do to sign up?

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Very simple. You put in your name, we guess a username for you, but you can change that.

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We then ask you to put in your email to verify who you are. We will guess your country, but

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you can change that and you can either put in personal categories of interest. So you

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might say I like news, business, sport, or you can leave the default ones. But it just

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means that we customise the homepage for you. Other than that, you just go straight in,

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verify your email and you are straight in with a new account on TrueFans.

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You mentioned a username. Why do I need a username as opposed to my real name?

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You don't need a username per se. Some people prefer to be known by their username. Now,

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most English people, for example, don't have a problem with the name Sam or Claire. Other

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people may have a longer, more complicated name that they want to just use a nickname

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for. Other people, for example, are known on social media by their nickname and they

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have been for years. Again, we need to give that option. So yeah, you have it in your

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user settings to be shown in TrueFans by your full name or by your nickname, your username.

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Brilliant. So when we come on to the future episodes and we talk about commenting, for

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example, it'll be your username that shows up with your comment.

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Correct.

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Super. Thank you very much, Sam.

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You're welcome, Claire.

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Thanks so much for listening. There are lots more episodes of Fanzone for you to get stuck

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into and that show you how to make the most of the fab features that this forward-looking

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podcast app has to offer podcast listeners and creators alike. We'd love to hear from

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you. You can send us a comment on TrueFans. More about that in the Fanzone episode on

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comments or email support@truefans.fm.