There is one upshot to podcast sharing, though: if you receive an audio podcast from a friend it won't be three-play DRMed the way shared songs are. (Say, do we smell some tracks-shared-as-podcast hacks coming on?) But there's a pretty big downside to podcast sharing, too.

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Why Microsoft differentiates sharing between video and audio and podcast content is entirely beyond us.

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Microsoft separates audio and video podcast content, and for whatever reason video podcasts can't be shared.

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Podcast: a link to some audio work you've done.

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This seems aimed at the audio engineer by day, that dabbles with video and likes to podcast on the weekend.

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The NPR.org website displays different elements than its audio player or mobile app, and different still from the iTunes podcast of the story or the website of a local NPR affiliate.

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