You set the start time and the time you want
to then stop, you set the stop time and that's
as simple as it is. We will take that audio clip
and save it for you on the page. We felt that
if you thought that the podcast creator had said
something really interesting and you wanted to
clip it up, you may also want to add a small
micro payment as a thank you to that creator
as well. 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
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podcasters. I'm Claire Waite Brown, independent
podcaster and all -round podcast enthusiast.
And I'm Sam Sethi, the CEO and founder of True
Fans. We've been learning about some of the really
fun, the exciting things we can do at an episode
level using the tabs on our episode screen. The
next tab I want to speak about, Sam, is clips.
Now, I think I probably know what this means.
I think this means I can make a clip, an audio
clip, I'm assuming, of the audio. Is that correct?
Correct. Yes, very meta. So the idea as a fan
or a listener that you are suddenly hearing a
part of the podcast, you go, that's amazing,
great. and then you want to clip that up for
whatever reason. It may be just to keep for your
own reference, or it may be that you want to
share it with the community, or thirdly, send
it out to social media or add it to your email.
The idea is that you can choose up to two minutes
for a clip. Why only two minutes, Sam, I hear
you ask? Because in the day when we first created
the feature, the dominant social media platform
was X slash Twitter, and Twitter limited the...
time of a clip to two minutes of audio so that's
where we set it will we increase that in the
future who knows but at the moment it's a two
minute clip that's the maximum we can do okay
how do you actually physically make the clip
then please so you're on the clips tab and what
you can then do is listen to the audio and at
the point you want to start you set the start
time And the time you want to then stop, you
set the stop time. And that's as simple as it
is. We will take that audio clip and save it
for you on the page. If you want to keep that
clip for yourself, is it currently, we spoke
in the last episode about notes and about notes
being private, certainly for the moment, or you
can choose them hopefully in the future. Is that
the same with clips? No, clips are public at
the moment. They're the same as comments. So
when you save a clip, everyone else will see
the same clip that you've just created. We haven't
decided yet whether we will make clips private.
I think what we're waiting to see is how people
use clips more before we actually start to build
additional features around them. Yeah, no, absolutely.
And there is, I notice, an option to add a payment
to a clip. Tell me a bit more about that. Yes,
we talked in a previous episode about super comments
where you attach a payment to a comment. We felt
that if you thought that the podcast creator
had said something really interesting and you
wanted to clip it up, you may also want to add
a small micro payment as a thank you to that
creator as well. So when you create the clip,
if you add a payment of any sort, it becomes
a super clip. for the want of a better word.
And that then sends the money to the podcast
creator and the clip then gets stored with the
episode. Brilliant. Thank you so much, Sam. Very
welcome. 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 has to offer podcast listeners
and creators alike. We'd love to hear from you.
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