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Your Early Release Feed
🕑 Added 2022-03-02 18:37:05 +0000 UTCEdit: This information is out of date as of May 1, 2022. We no longer offer the Early Release perk, and have replaced it with other stuff.
Edit (3/3/22): The march continues to keep this post updated to add answers to peoples' questions. If you use Pocketcasts see the new section for the best way to add this feed to the app. If you download episodes manually, there are instructions for that, too.
Edit (3/2/22): If you have previously subscribed using the Fireside Patreon Auth credentials that I laid out earlier this week, you absolutely need to unsubscribe from that feed and then resubscribe using the directions below. Otherwise you will not get access to anything anymore. I apologize for the inconvenience, I'm doing my best.
Hi! You're a backer and you want to find out how to access the early release feed, aka the Duckfeed Early Bird. This should be simple to access, as long as you have a podcast app that supports podcast feeds which require usernames and passwords.
Please read the post below, follow the instructions, and double check everything before asking for help. Everything here is tested.
Here's what you need to do.
1. Take the url https://duckfeedearlybird.com/rss and paste it into your podcast app of choice. (Alternately, use this URL: https://feeds.fireside.fm/duckfeedearlybird/rss)
2. Enter the following credentials:
username: imaduck
password: crickfarms
This should subscribe you to the feed.
A Note About Pocketcasts
A number of listeners have had problems with Pocketcasts because of the way they serve their feeds. To get around this you must do two things:
1. Use this URL instead when you submit the private feed: https://imaduck:crickfarms@feeds.fireside.fm/duckfeedearlybird/rss (It encodes the credentials into the URL itself. Use it exactly.)
2. Please, please, please click the "private" checkbox when adding the private feed. Otherwise the premium content is exposed to the public and that's a nightmare to fix. Be kind to your fellow patrons.
A Note About Google Podcasts
Google Podcasts, for some reason, does not allow for password protected feeds. I can't do anything about this on my end. Please submit feature requests to Google, and use Podcast Addict in the meantime. I know some folks get really annoyed at using a separate app, and I get it, but there's nothing I can do that wouldn't entail undoing most of the changes I've made to solve the feed clutter problem in the first place.
If It Doesn't Work Immediately
If it doesn't work, try again. This stuff is stupidly wobbly sometimes and we can't do anything about it. Several people who initially had problems at first also had them go away seemingly on their own, because of weird internet cache stuff. This usually happens within 24 hours.
If you're having trouble adding the feed to your podcast app of choice, please seek out documentation on how to add password protected feeds on your own. There are just too many different podcast apps for us to assist with all of them.
If you need help learning what an RSS feed is or finding an app that is likely to take this feed, Patreon's support page is a good place to start.
To download shows manually
Some folks don't use RSS or other services besides Patreon to get their podcasts, and prefer to download the audio and add it to their devices directly. If you want to do this, you can go to duckfeedearlybird.com, enter the credentials above (it might take a try or two, for some reason) and you can navigate to the posted episodes directly on the grid interface (there's even a search!).
The episode file names will be a string of letters and numbers, but the ID3 data is all accurate if you want to rename them yourself. We can't do anything about this, it's something unchangeable about the way our podcast hosting service works.
The shows currently appearing on Early Release are:
- Abject Suffering
- Days of Future Cast
- Everything to Guppy
- The Level
- ORB
- Watch Out for Fireballs! (Public Episodes)
This show list is subject to change as our show lineup changes. Additionally, older episodes will be culled from the feed on occasion. This is not the place to do archive dives... We'd recommend subscribing to individual show feeds to accomplish that.
What's happening to the posts on Patreon?
Since our goal is to address feedback about the premium content being too cluttered, it doesn't make sense to keep posting things on Patreon itself. We know some people are used to getting their audio here, but until Patreon offers a better way to filter content from feeds inside of its own platform, Early Release content will be solely available on the special show page and its RSS feed. All other premium content will continue to be delivered here and on their own special private feeds simultaneously.
If you previously listened on the Patreon app or the website itself, this will be a change for you. You can use free apps provided by Apple and Google to subscribe to the show on mobile, and you can use a service like Feedly to subscribe on the web. I apologize for any short term inconvenience this might cause, but it's our belief that it will be much more convenient than the unified feed in the long run.
Thank you for your support!
Comments
Lemonscooter
Update! I was able to get the per show feeds to work so they are at least giving me the premiums! Thanks again for the response and work you do.
Lemonscooter
I appreciate the response. Currently I have tried two different apps and all the ways you guys have listed for obtaining the feed. Still no dice. It's only frustrating because I had it before. The newest error I got was that the credentials are invalid when I use them in podcast addict.
Duckfeed.tv
Hey Lemon Nothing on our end, I'm afraid. I don't think anyone else has contacted us about the feed going down. If you've tried the troubleshooting steps you may have to contact your podcast app for support. If there was a switch we could flip over here to fix it, we would. -Gary-
Lemonscooter
I apologize I feel like I am missing something. I had the feed before, then I had to reset my phone and I am in the process of trying to get it all back. I tried following the steps laid out and it is telling me no podcast found.... Sorry I know this has been a fun issue
Tony Sleaze
Had to use the Pocketcast solution in Podcast Addict as I couldn't get the login to work in case anyone else is running into issues.
Neil Williamson
I'm so dumb and this helped me so much! All good now! ❤️
Wee Heavy L Walter-Stern
I’m trying to subscribe to the feed on downcast iOS and I’ve tried both urls and the password and username combo and the feed never adds
Duckfeed.tv
It should refresh in a bit because it’s tied to your browser. Try it later and it should work.
Billiam
Oh no. I think I entered the wrong credentials (at the wrong link?) for early bird and now it keeps kicking me to an “access denied” page.
Joelle
Thank you Kole. I hate google podcasts, they didn't even have RSS support for a long time 😥
Joshua Kane
Thank you, and I can understand how stressful all this must be, so thanks also for all the work you guys do for us. Greatly appreciated!
Ad Man
That worked. Thanks.
Tyler Bias
I take it you added it through the app like I did then (copying the URL into the search field). I think that we should be fine, it seems like there is another way of adding podcasts that people had been using that was creating this issue.
Kade Louison
Everything worked for me! Thanks for all your work Kole, it's greatly appreciated!
DonutRush
I really don't wanna add more troubles to the pile, but I don't see a Private option on pocket casts. Subscribing to the special URL with the U/P info built in didn't prompt me, and nothing in the app settings shows the option either.
Kane Judkins
I got the early bird link to work on poketcast but I had to remove the spaces? 🤷♂️ No idea. But thanks for all the work and support!
Micah Tillman
Thanks for working on all this, Kole! The extra pressure with Elden Ring being out now has got to make it all the more stressful
Duckfeed.tv
You can go to duckfeedearlybird.com, enter the credentials above to reveal the site, then navigate to the episodes you want to download and grab them there.
Joshua Kane
I download the audio files directly to my PC. No apps, no 3rd party programs. Is that not possible now?
American Mike
Kole, thank you so much for doing the dude dilligence on this problem and getting things to work for us. Given all the posts in the last few days, this was not an easy task. Big ups to Ryan up above for the Podcast Addict fix. I am no longer missing content, nor do I need content. Umbasa!
Robert M Fenner
Fellow pocketcasts users: this worked for me. Paste https://imaduck:crickfarms@feeds.fireside.fm/duckfeedearlybird/rss into https://pocketcasts.com/submit/ be sure to select "private link" though!
American Mike
You're a life saver, Ryan! Smooth sailing now!
Eric Heinrichs
I was able to get it to work in Pocket Casts by adding https://imaduck:crickfarms@theUrlOfTheFeedWithoutTheHttpBit after getting the custom link from https://www.duckfeedearlybird.com/subscribe.
Duckfeed.tv
I’ll be updating the post with more specific info that should hopefully help later today
Jaxsun McCarthy Huggan
As a pocketcasts user am I just completely unable to use early release then?
Richard Cochnar
Good art for the early release feed.
Andrew Starr
Thank you Eric! This worked for me as well.
Eric Heinrichs
No problem!
Nicholas Prior
Hallelujah, it works! Thank you for helping me with that!
Eric Heinrichs
I was able to get it to work by adding https://imaduck:crickfarms@theUrlOfTheFeedWithoutTheHttpBit after getting the custom link from https://www.duckfeedearlybird.com/subscribe.
Nicholas Prior
Can you please explain how you got it to work exactly?
Tyler Bias
Couldn’t get Pocket Casts working but downloaded Overcast on iOS and it worked like a charm immediately. If anyone is struggling, I suggest that app on iOS.
Pat Doherty
It suddenly started working for me with the username:password@link. No idea why and I don't quite understand PocketCasts back end except for the fact that I think it pulls everything to their own server before it sends it to users.
Duckfeed.tv
Episode 0 isn’t even published anymore because it no longer applies. And this is likely happening because someone added the feed and didn’t click the “keep this private” button. This might explain things, and even going back to the Fireside Auth will no longer work because PocketCasts will just shunt you to the publicly available feed without any premium content. PocketCast’s way of handling things is insane to me. This is not a criticism of anyone who uses that app.
Pat Doherty
Which is just episode 0
Pat Doherty
Even if you add the link with username@password:link PocketCasts will just say it already exists and then just give you the non-subscriber feed.
Nicholas Prior
I understand that, I appreciate the work you both put in for all this, I wouldn't be here if I didn't. That second link also let's me subscribe through pocket casts but no login credentials and only showing "Episode 0"
Duckfeed.tv
Try subscribing to this link and see if it works. https://feeds.fireside.fm/duckfeedearlybird/rss. Same credentials as above.
Duckfeed.tv
When I say that time will fix it, I mean that there's something in a cache somewhere for the two of you (and others getting this) that needs to be flushed so that it can pull back the fresh feed. This might be temporary insofar as the Fireside auth might suddenly work tomorrow. I can't go back to having everything being in one feed on Patreon because that would entail undoing all of the work I've put in, and it would unsolve the major problem I've been trying to solve (though that created a number of problems in turn, though hopefully ones that are solvable on an app by app basis.) I apologize for the annoyance. I don't have an answer for how to deal with it right now, but if it's a cache problem then likely a day or two will fix it.
Nicholas Prior
Pocket casts is the only podcast app I use. It worked with no issues for years with how it all worked before.. it even worked with that fireside one you tried. Is this feed the final one? Or is it a temporary fix?
Bill Tucker
I'm getting the same issue in PocketCasts, so I'm just switching apps trying to find one that likes the new feed. No worries, my list of subbed podcasts could use a good culling anyway. And y'all are worth the extra legwork.
Duckfeed.tv
There must be some kind of caching problem on PocketCasts. This might be something that’s fixed with time. PocketCasts has been nothing but problems when it comes to non-standard feeds.
Adam Bunting
Same here, didn't ask for any login info, but only got episode zero, this is pocketcasts
Nicholas Prior
Should it only show "Episode 0"? I subbed through pocket casts and it didn't ask me to input any login information Edit: meant to write didn't
Juliet St. Moon
This worked perfectly!
Nicholas Basile
Thanks!
Timothy Post
Patreon decided not to show me your post before I posted mine :D Same solution worked for me.
Ryan
Assuming this isn't an "exclusive to me" issue: don't open the http://duckfeedearlybird.com/rss link through Podcast Addict directly, it doesn't seem to like that. I opened it through my browser and used the log in credentials to get the more specific Fireside.fm URL for the RSS feed. I then pasted that URL into Podcast Addict, entered the credentials again, and boom all set.
Kevin Lewis
Can do, thanks!
Duckfeed.tv
Delete the old one. I apologize for the confusion. The old one wasn’t sustainable if so many people were having problems with it.
Kevin Lewis
If I'm one of the lucky ducks (thank you, I'll be here all week) that managed to get in via the previous update - I now see basically two identical feeds in my podcast app. Will these both update? should I delete the old one?
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