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Podcasts: Follow vs Subscribe

Status: Live Idea
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Some podcasts have content that I want to listen to on a daily or weekly basis and other podcasts I want to listen to in a chronological order or just mark the podcast for future listening but easy to find in my library. Therefore I think it would be very helpful for a differentiation between "Subscibing" to a podcast. Which would add new episodes automatically to the "New episodes" playlist. And "Follow" which marks the podcast to show in the users library. This could be simply done by making the follow button have 3 selected options for the the user to press 1)Follow & Subscribe 2) Follow 3) Unfollow. If you compare podcasts to written literature, some pods serve as a daily paper or magazine and others as a book. Daily newspapers or magazines get listened to and discarded while books get saved and put on a library for future reference or situational listening. And Spotify should mirror this user experience. I am aware that there are also audiobooks already, however many podcasters tell stories or information over the course of many episodes that essentially serves as a story being told vs getting daily news.