New data fields: update_frequency, audio_length, and amazon_music_url

We have been adding new data fields to podcasts metadata in our database, especially those that are not in the rss feed.

Recently, we added three new data fields -

1. update_frequency: On average, how frequently a podcast releases a new episode?
2. audio_length: The average audio length of episodes in a podcast.
3. amazon_music_url: A podcast’s Amazon Music url.

To add a new data field, we always need to update several products at the same time, which is quite tedious -

For example — On the website:

And the API:

We also added new search filters (update_frequency & audio_length) to web search (w/ Premium Membership) and Listen Datasets -

As we are adding more and more search filters, we have to make the filters UI compact. Therefore, it’s 2-column on desktop now :)