WEBVTT 00:00:06.059 --> 00:00:12.259 and how do the shows appear within those categories 00:00:12.259 --> 00:00:16.640 that's not based on a chart is it? No those shows 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:19.980 are then based on the latest updated ones so 00:00:19.980 --> 00:00:22.750 we look for what's currently fresh and new. I 00:00:22.750 --> 00:00:25.170 like it. I like that there's things popping up 00:00:25.170 --> 00:00:27.649 that I've never heard of or seen before. I think 00:00:27.649 --> 00:00:29.690 that's a really nice way of introducing me to 00:00:29.690 --> 00:00:33.369 some new shows. If you've got people you follow, 00:00:33.630 --> 00:00:36.689 then you can see what they recently played, and 00:00:36.689 --> 00:00:39.609 actually, sometimes if they're live, actually 00:00:39.609 --> 00:00:42.409 currently listening to another podcast, you can 00:00:42.409 --> 00:00:44.109 click on it and you can actually join them and 00:00:44.109 --> 00:00:47.929 co -listen, which I think is good fun. Welcome 00:00:47.929 --> 00:00:50.549 to Fanzone, your bite-sized guide to getting 00:00:50.549 --> 00:00:53.950 the most out of the TrueFans podcast app. In 00:00:53.950 --> 00:00:56.570 each episode, we'll discuss an aspect of the 00:00:56.570 --> 00:00:59.509 app and hopefully answer any questions you may 00:00:59.509 --> 00:01:03.009 have about it. Plus, when you listen to Fanzone 00:01:03.009 --> 00:01:06.349 in TrueFans, you can earn as you listen and 00:01:06.349 --> 00:01:09.689 use your earnings to support your favourite podcasters. 00:01:10.049 --> 00:01:12.650 I'm Clare Waite Brown, independent podcaster 00:01:12.650 --> 00:01:15.569 and all -round podcast enthusiast. And I'm Sam 00:01:15.569 --> 00:01:23.980 Sethi, the CEO and founder of TrueFans. We're going to talk about the home screen in two 00:01:23.980 --> 00:01:28.140 stages. First up, the scenario is that I haven't 00:01:28.140 --> 00:01:31.319 set up an account. So I haven't logged in. I'm 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:34.280 coming fresh to the homepage. What will I see, 00:01:34.500 --> 00:01:38.000 Sam? On the homepage, when you're logged out, 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:41.140 you will see homegrown hits. So based on your 00:01:41.140 --> 00:01:43.939 country, which you can always change in your 00:01:43.939 --> 00:01:47.159 user settings, but we auto detect that when you 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:49.920 first log in. That's the first thing. So we give 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.609 you a carousel of what we think are the best 00:01:52.609 --> 00:01:56.129 top 10 currently in the country that you're in. 00:01:56.310 --> 00:01:58.629 Then we give you podcasts we're loving. Now, 00:01:58.650 --> 00:02:01.370 podcasts we're loving can be a mixture of those 00:02:01.370 --> 00:02:03.890 still in your country, but also from another 00:02:03.890 --> 00:02:05.849 country that might be , maybe the USA 00:02:05.849 --> 00:02:09.669 or maybe Australia or France or Germany. So that 00:02:09.669 --> 00:02:12.389 could be a mixed carousel. And then below that, 00:02:12.469 --> 00:02:15.650 you get the top five Apple categories, news, 00:02:15.830 --> 00:02:19.689 health, true crime, society and culture, and 00:02:19.689 --> 00:02:22.400 comedy. And of course, we've added a brand new 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:25.659 carousel now, which is this podcast, the Fanzone 00:02:25.659 --> 00:02:28.400 podcast. So now at the top, you will see 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:32.280 a carousel of all the episodes past and the ones 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:33.800 that we're going to be publishing in the future 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:37.520 as well. Brilliant. So these episodes are a very 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.520 lovely introduction to all the fun things you 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:45.699 can do on TrueFans. So that is if I haven't 00:02:45.699 --> 00:02:47.860 signed up, but if I have signed up for an account. 00:02:48.430 --> 00:02:50.689 Does my home screen look different when I sign 00:02:50.689 --> 00:02:54.530 in? Yes, it does. And the reason that is because 00:02:54.530 --> 00:02:57.349 we give you the carousels that you would want 00:02:57.349 --> 00:03:00.990 most quickly at the top. When you log in and 00:03:00.990 --> 00:03:03.669 create an account, you get two new carousels. 00:03:03.909 --> 00:03:06.990 One is called New For You. If you follow certain 00:03:06.990 --> 00:03:10.289 podcasts, you will see if there's a new episode 00:03:10.289 --> 00:03:13.189 of that podcast in the New For You carousel. 00:03:13.270 --> 00:03:15.789 And if you've started listening to any podcast, 00:03:16.009 --> 00:03:18.370 you don't have to be a fan of it. We will show 00:03:18.370 --> 00:03:21.389 you a carousel called Keep Listening and that'll 00:03:21.389 --> 00:03:23.810 allow you to quickly resume where you left off 00:03:23.810 --> 00:03:26.569 in that episode without having to go back to 00:03:26.569 --> 00:03:29.310 the original podcast and then find that episode. 00:03:29.509 --> 00:03:31.389 And then, of course, below that will be your 00:03:31.389 --> 00:03:34.169 Fanzone carousel and then your homegrown hits 00:03:34.169 --> 00:03:39.090 again. And you can, once you've signed in, you 00:03:39.090 --> 00:03:42.729 can go to your user settings and you can customise 00:03:42.729 --> 00:03:44.930 your homepage for the categories that you like, 00:03:45.030 --> 00:03:48.020 can't you? Correct. If you, when you first signed 00:03:48.020 --> 00:03:50.659 up, didn't choose five different categories, 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.840 then you get the default top five Apple categories. 00:03:54.139 --> 00:03:56.460 But of course, if you want to, you go into user 00:03:56.460 --> 00:03:59.620 settings, go down to the categories, choose the 00:03:59.620 --> 00:04:01.580 five different categories you want, and we will 00:04:01.580 --> 00:04:04.259 replace the Apple top five categories with your 00:04:04.259 --> 00:04:06.800 own five categories. So therefore, you can customise 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:09.479 the homepage to look like you want it to. And 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:15.080 how do the shows appear within those? categories 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:19.240 that's not based on a chart is it no those shows 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:22.579 are then based on the latest updated ones so 00:04:22.579 --> 00:04:25.439 we look for what's currently fresh and new in 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.720 the future we may well curate those as well but 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:31.680 currently we don't. I like it. I like that there's 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:33.899 things popping up that i've never heard of or 00:04:33.899 --> 00:04:36.100 seen before. I think that's a really nice way 00:04:36.100 --> 00:04:40.620 of introducing me to some new shows Now, there 00:04:40.620 --> 00:04:44.040 is one other way you can, well, I believe one. 00:04:44.139 --> 00:04:45.600 It's one that we're going to talk about now. 00:04:46.420 --> 00:04:50.120 Customise your homepage using playlists. Now, 00:04:50.180 --> 00:04:52.139 in a future episode, we're going to talk more 00:04:52.139 --> 00:04:54.740 about playlists, but there is a way that you 00:04:54.740 --> 00:04:57.660 can choose your playlist and have it pop up on 00:04:57.660 --> 00:05:00.040 your homepage every time you come to the app, 00:05:00.060 --> 00:05:02.740 isn't there? Yes. We thought it would be lovely 00:05:02.740 --> 00:05:05.750 if you've got your own personal playlist. then 00:05:05.750 --> 00:05:07.689 instead of always going back to the playlist 00:05:07.689 --> 00:05:10.430 to find it, you can actually just see it on the 00:05:10.430 --> 00:05:13.709 homepage. So you can pin a playlist to the top 00:05:13.709 --> 00:05:16.990 of the homepage and that will auto -update based 00:05:16.990 --> 00:05:22.089 on new episodes. Yeah, super. The featured podcasts 00:05:22.089 --> 00:05:26.029 that pop up at the top, if I wanted to hide those 00:05:26.029 --> 00:05:29.509 and go straight to my own lists, can I do that? 00:05:30.250 --> 00:05:33.509 Yes, thankfully, yes, we allow that customisation 00:05:33.509 --> 00:05:37.370 too. So yes. Those featured ones at the top are 00:05:37.370 --> 00:05:41.129 there for us to give you new podcasts we think 00:05:41.129 --> 00:05:43.370 you might like, or sometimes in the future, there 00:05:43.370 --> 00:05:45.750 may be sponsored podcasts. But yes, there's a 00:05:45.750 --> 00:05:49.029 little arrow just below the featured podcast. 00:05:49.209 --> 00:05:52.209 You can click on it and it will just hide that 00:05:52.209 --> 00:05:55.990 carousel and the imagery at the top. So you can 00:05:55.990 --> 00:05:59.220 just see all your own carousels after that. Yeah, 00:05:59.220 --> 00:06:01.259 yeah. I mean, obviously I wouldn't want to hide 00:06:01.259 --> 00:06:03.300 that carousel at all. I always want to see what 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:08.420 you're recommending. But just in case. So then 00:06:08.420 --> 00:06:10.839 let's go right to the very top now. Right to 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:15.139 the top. We've got an avatar. We've got a magnifying 00:06:15.139 --> 00:06:18.160 glass. You know, some of those are more obvious 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.300 symbols. Give me a rundown of what I'm seeing 00:06:20.300 --> 00:06:23.000 at the very top of my home screen, please. So 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:26.319 from left to right, you'll see the TrueFans logo, 00:06:26.540 --> 00:06:28.600 but that actually is a very useful logo because 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:31.279 when you're on any page in TrueFans, if you want 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:32.980 to get back to the homepage, you just click on 00:06:32.980 --> 00:06:35.720 that little icon and it gets you there. We've 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.300 got a new icon that we've added recently called 00:06:38.300 --> 00:06:42.060 the Friends Activity icon. And if you click on 00:06:42.060 --> 00:06:45.250 it, your drop down if you've got people you follow 00:06:45.250 --> 00:06:49.350 in your profile then you can see what they recently 00:06:49.350 --> 00:06:52.889 played and actually sometimes if they're live 00:06:52.889 --> 00:06:55.449 actually currently listening to another podcast 00:06:55.449 --> 00:06:57.970 you can see what they're playing you can click 00:06:57.970 --> 00:07:00.050 on it and you can actually join them and co-listen 00:07:00.050 --> 00:07:02.730 to the same podcast with them which I think is 00:07:02.730 --> 00:07:05.670 good fun the other one is your notifications 00:07:05.670 --> 00:07:09.819 icon bell and that is basically if you're a fan 00:07:09.819 --> 00:07:13.379 of a podcast, that's where you will see new notifications 00:07:13.379 --> 00:07:16.860 of new episodes that have been released. But 00:07:16.860 --> 00:07:19.459 equally, if you're a fan of a publisher, say 00:07:19.459 --> 00:07:23.160 Wondery or maybe another big publisher, and you 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:26.120 followed them, then you will see also other notifications 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:28.759 in there, things like new podcasts that they've 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:31.519 released. It may be that there's a music artist 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:33.360 you're following. And again, you'll see if they've 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.639 got a new single. And finally, of course, if 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.250 somebody follows you. you get a notification 00:07:38.250 --> 00:07:40.569 that somebody has now started following you. 00:07:40.930 --> 00:07:43.589 And finally, of course, yes, the search icon 00:07:43.589 --> 00:07:46.610 and then your avatar, which leads to all of your 00:07:46.610 --> 00:07:48.569 user settings and other things you can do in 00:07:48.569 --> 00:07:51.509 the system. Okay, one other question then. I 00:07:51.509 --> 00:07:55.209 love the friends thing. How do I find my friends 00:07:55.209 --> 00:07:58.189 that I want to follow? So if you go to the search 00:07:58.189 --> 00:08:02.269 page, you can see that there's three radio buttons. 00:08:02.410 --> 00:08:05.370 One says podcast, one says fans, one says artists. 00:08:05.449 --> 00:08:08.709 So if you click on fans and then type out the 00:08:08.709 --> 00:08:11.529 name of somebody who you think is in TrueFans, 00:08:11.709 --> 00:08:14.670 you will see their profile and you can then click 00:08:14.670 --> 00:08:17.410 on them and find them and follow them. Yeah, 00:08:17.410 --> 00:08:21.250 super. I'm going to give you another scenario. 00:08:21.310 --> 00:08:24.029 I like doing these scenarios, don't I? You do. 00:08:24.990 --> 00:08:29.899 I've come. to TrueFans, but I've been listening 00:08:29.899 --> 00:08:34.279 to podcasts on another app and I've already got 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:37.159 my favourite podcasts and there's quite a few 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:40.039 of them. I don't really want to go through searching 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:42.620 for every show. I mean, maybe I'm just lazy, 00:08:42.740 --> 00:08:45.500 but is there an easier way for me to get the 00:08:45.500 --> 00:08:48.259 shows I used to listen to on another app to be 00:08:48.259 --> 00:08:50.700 showing up on the Tru Fans app? Thankfully, 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.779 the answer is yes for most apps. So, for example... 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:59.100 Apple, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Overcast, you can 00:08:59.100 --> 00:09:04.019 export your podcast list. It's in a format called 00:09:04.019 --> 00:09:09.139 OPML. OPML is a format structure for exporting 00:09:09.139 --> 00:09:14.120 a list of your podcasts. And other apps can read 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:17.120 that OPML file. So true fans can read the OPML 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.139 file. So you can go to your playlists in the 00:09:20.139 --> 00:09:22.950 top right -hand corner. click on the icon and 00:09:22.950 --> 00:09:25.929 upload your OPML file and then we will turn that 00:09:25.929 --> 00:09:29.070 into a playlist for you and then what happens 00:09:29.070 --> 00:09:31.850 is it's a dynamic playlist so we'll auto update 00:09:31.850 --> 00:09:34.990 to the latest episode available and you again 00:09:34.990 --> 00:09:37.289 you could pin that one if you wanted to the top 00:09:37.289 --> 00:09:41.009 of your home page or you can edit that imported 00:09:41.009 --> 00:09:45.370 playlist and reduce it in size or equally if 00:09:45.370 --> 00:09:48.429 you play any of the items in that imported playlist 00:09:48.429 --> 00:09:50.950 they will be added to your library. And again, 00:09:51.029 --> 00:09:53.649 you can then use those to create other playlists. 00:09:53.730 --> 00:09:57.110 So there's lots of options, but OPML import and 00:09:57.110 --> 00:10:00.110 export is what we do. Sadly, not every other 00:10:00.110 --> 00:10:05.509 app allows you to export in OPML. If the app 00:10:05.509 --> 00:10:09.610 you've been using allows for OPML export, you 00:10:09.610 --> 00:10:13.950 will find this in your settings. It may say export 00:10:13.950 --> 00:10:18.409 OPML or export podcasts or something similar. 00:10:19.210 --> 00:10:22.909 Once you've exported, in TrueFans, click on your 00:10:22.909 --> 00:10:26.990 avatar at top right, then go to Playlists. At 00:10:26.990 --> 00:10:29.830 the top of the Playlists page on the right, you'll 00:10:29.830 --> 00:10:33.889 see an icon of a document with an arrow. Click 00:10:33.889 --> 00:10:37.889 here, locate the OPML file wherever you saved 00:10:37.889 --> 00:10:42.799 it to, and click on Open. As Sam already explained, 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:46.980 you will now have a new playlist featuring your 00:10:46.980 --> 00:10:51.980 shows from that app. There is one other quite 00:10:51.980 --> 00:10:55.919 cool thing I like that you can use to customise 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:59.940 the way your home screen looks. There are two 00:10:59.940 --> 00:11:04.000 little square icons underneath the search bar. 00:11:04.179 --> 00:11:08.970 What do they mean? icons will allow you to change 00:11:08.970 --> 00:11:12.309 the view of the page so the first one is a card 00:11:12.309 --> 00:11:15.509 view that's where you see the cover art and you 00:11:15.509 --> 00:11:18.690 see then the metadata information below it and 00:11:18.690 --> 00:11:20.870 then the other one's a list view so some people 00:11:20.870 --> 00:11:23.350 like to see the whole carousel just as a simple 00:11:23.350 --> 00:11:27.009 list and therefore a long scroll and some people 00:11:27.009 --> 00:11:29.509 like to have a card view and then you get a horizontal 00:11:29.509 --> 00:11:32.169 scroll there will be a third view very much like 00:11:32.169 --> 00:11:34.629 we have on playlist where we have a folder view 00:11:35.149 --> 00:11:37.409 And we are bringing the folder view to the homepage 00:11:37.409 --> 00:11:41.269 as well shortly. Lovely. Thank you. You're very 00:11:41.269 --> 00:11:44.289 welcome, Claire. Thanks so much for listening. 00:11:44.450 --> 00:11:47.029 There are lots more episodes of FanZone for 00:11:47.029 --> 00:11:49.690 you to get stuck into and that show you how to 00:11:49.690 --> 00:11:52.330 make the most of the fab features that this forward 00:11:52.330 --> 00:11:55.750 -looking podcast app has to offer podcast listeners 00:11:55.750 --> 00:11:59.000 and creators alike. We'd love to hear from you. 00:11:59.019 --> 00:12:01.919 You can send us a comment on TrueFans. More 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.379 about that in the Fanzone episode on comments 00:12:04.379 --> 00:12:08.659 or email support@truefans .fm.