# The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability

DevFeed: [The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-pulse-quitting-spotify-podcasts-over-reliability-40927.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-quitting-spotify-podcasts-over-reliability/>)

Author: Ivan Klaric

Published: 2026-07-30T15:51:38Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The Pragmatic Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-pragmatic-engineer-2.md>)

Topics: [Spotify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/spotify.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reliability.md>), [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>), [RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rss-feed.md>)

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## AI overview

The author stopped publishing video podcast episodes on Spotify after encountering repeated reliability problems processing video episodes. Audio episodes remain available through Spotify's RSS feed, while video episodes are published on YouTube.

## Source excerpt

Spotify's podcast platform has become chronically unreliable since the company's leadership started boasting about AI adoption. Competitors haven't had similar issues, so I offboarded from Spotify.