>> Sam Sethi: Show notes, are in all apps. Others
are 2.0 features Claire to enhance experiences
for listeners. So you have chapters which allow you
to break down the episode into smaller
chunks. You have a transcript where you can see
the text of the whole audio and you can
follow along if you want. And you never
know, I may even add more in the future. And knowing me, I
probably will.
>> Claire Waite Brown: I think you may do.
Welcome to Fanzone, your bite sized guide to getting the
most out of the TrueFans podcast app. In each
episode we'll discuss an aspect of the app and
hopefully answer any questions you may have about
it. Plus, when you listen to fans,
owning true fans you can earn as you
listen and use your earnings to support your
favourite podcasters. I'm Claire Waite
Brown, independent podcaster and all round podcast
enthusiast.
>> Sam Sethi: And I'm Sam Sethi, the CEO and founder of
TrueFans.
>> Claire Waite Brown: Let's um, explore the
TrueFans app at an episode
level. So whether from the
show screen which we talked about in episode
six, so the previous episode, or
the homepage which we discussed in episode
five, if you click on the play
button next to any episode, you will
predictably play that episode.
FYI, that button will say resume. If you've
already started listening
now, you will see at uh, the bottom of your screen what
is known as the tray. And here
you can adjust the play speed, you can
skip forward or back and pause. All
pretty standard stuff for playing a podcast
episode. We'll talk about the other two icons in
the tray towards the end of this episode. So
basically with the tray there, you can continue to mooch
around the app. You might be visiting different pages
and shows while still listening to this episode.
And the tray will remain at the bottom of your screen.
Click on the podcast art in the tray
and you'll be taken then to the full
episode screen. So Sam, what am I
going to see in this page?
>> Sam Sethi: So you're on the episode page now, Claire, and you
now get to see the episode cover art,
which can be different to the podcast cover art, which
is really lovely. And when we talk about
chapters later on, that cover art will
change if there is individual chapter art as
well. Above that you also have
a, uh, little text which says home or the
name of the podcast show. And that's your navigation
to take you back either to the show page
or to the homepage. And then below
that is all of the what we call metadata icons.
So you'll see the number of times this podcast episode has been
played. Maybe if anyone's left any Likes or
comments if it has chapters or a video,
or even in some cases the location tag, which again
we will cover in a future episode. So lots of little bits
of information there about that episode.
>> Claire Waite Brown: Perfect. Which is why that can
look different depending on what you're listening to,
doesn't it? Because it depends how people have interacted with
it and what shows up there.
>> Sam Sethi: Exactly.
>> Claire Waite Brown: Underneath the play button.
Now, these icons don't change, so underneath
the play button we've got some icons that the listener
can use to do certain things. So can
you tell me about those icons and what we can do with them?
>> Sam Sethi: Um, the first one's a lovely heart and that's just
a very quick sentiment that you can give back to the
creator. I love this episode. Click on it and just
give them a bit of a message back. After that
you have playlists and playlists are, uh,
very, very useful within Trufan. So
you've got a playlist icon and you can add
it to your default cube. You can
add it to a play next if you want it to play
instantly in the next episode after the one you're currently
listening to. And there's lots more. You can create your own
playlist and you can go and look at the whole playlist view.
And I think we'll be doing a whole episode of Fanzone on
Playlist to give you more detail. So the next one
is the comments icon. Um, when you click on that, it brings up
a pop up and you can leave a little comment there very
quickly. So you might want to say, hey, I love this show,
Claire. And equally you might want to add
some money to that. And if you add any micro
payment to that, it becomes a super comment. A
comment is free and a super comment is a payment with that
comment. After that you get the streaming
icon. And this is again where if you want to give
the creator some money, you can do a per
minute payment. So you might want to give them in a fiat
currency, 1 cent or 1
penny or 10 pence or whatever the amount you want
to give.
>> Claire Waite Brown: Just a reminder, we did speak about
fiat currency and sats and just a bit
more about the uh, monetary side of things
in episode four, which was our episode on the
Wallet. So if you haven't listened to that, you might want to pop
back. Thank you.
>> Sam Sethi: And then the last icon, Claire, is a series
of extra actions that you can do with this episode.
So you can share this episode, you can
download the audio, uh, you can even report it if you think
there's something wrong with this episode. And we will get it flagged
in our system and we will have a look at it for you.
>> Claire Waite Brown: Brilliant. Thank you. When you scroll
down a little bit, you'll see tabs again, uh,
like you did in episode six, which was all
about the show screen, which is the show as a whole.
This time, of course, these tabs are specific
to the episode you are listening to.
What are these tabs all about, Sam?
>> Sam Sethi: Show notes are in all apps.
Others are, uh, 2.0 features, Claire, to
enhance experiences for listeners. So you have
chapters which allow you to break down the
episode into smaller chunks. You have
a transcript where you can see the text
of the whole audio and you can follow along if you
want. Notes are something that we've added,
which is fairly unique to TrueFans at the moment.
So you might be listening to a podcast and they talk about something
and you want to create a private note to remind
yourself. Or later on, you might want to even share your
note so you can write. Those clips are
equally very similar to notes, but they're an audio
clip. So you can then say, oh,
that section that Claire was talking about, I want to
clip that up and I want to save that. But
also maybe I want to share that to social
media or email a friend with it. And so that works
really easily. As you said, we can talk all about this in
more detail in later episodes. And you never know,
I may even add more in the future. And knowing me, I probably
will.
>> Claire Waite Brown: I think you may do. Brilliant.
No, that's all really exciting. That's all the, uh, fun stuff we
can look forward to learning more about in
future episodes. Before we finish up on this
episode, I mentioned at the beginning of this episode,
the other two icons in the tray,
what are these all about, Sam?
>> Sam Sethi: So the first one is playlists. So if
you saved or added anything to your
current playlist, when you click on that icon, you will see
the queue of all the items in your playlist. You
can change those, you can remove certain items
from the playlist. You can rename that playlist even.
>> Claire Waite Brown: Okay, so this little button in the, in the, uh,
tray means that you can basically
do some housekeeping with your playlists, even if
you're not on the episode screen. So say you're looking at something
else. You can still access your
playlists from the tray. Okay, got it. And
then there's another little icon for
filters.
>> Sam Sethi: Yeah, and the filter icon just gives you more
options about what's going on. So if you wanted to
quickly, uh, let's say you're listening to an episode but you're
not on the episode page. But you want to go and look at
the chapters, or you want to go and look at the transcript, or you
want to write a private note related to that
episode, then you have options there.
So again, most of the options are self
explanatory. You have a heart icon, a chapter icon. There
are a couple of extra icons on the mobile you
will see. One is the wallet icon. So if you
want to see how much is in your wallet still and how
much you might be paying for the episode. So if you're
paying nothing, that's not a problem. But you might go, oh, I wonder
what I set as my default for this
episode. Um, and you can very quickly check and change
it there. And finally, if there is a video
version of this podcast, you can switch
between the audio and video and back again if you want
to.
>> Claire Waite Brown: Thank you so much Sam.
>> Sam Sethi: Um, thanks Claire.
>> Claire Waite Brown: Thanks so much for listening. There are lots more
episodes of Fanzone for you to get stuck into and
that show you how to make the most of the fab features
that this forward looking podcast app, uh, has to
offer podcast listeners and creators alike. Ah,
we'd love to hear from you. You can send us a comment on
TrueFans, more about that in the Fanzone
episode on comments or email
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