Has Spotify just re-invented radio? Podnews editor James Cridland weighs in. ALSO: Gameplay producer James Parkinson.

Spotify unveiled a new product feature a fortnight ago that caught my attention. The streaming music service has been pushing aggressively into podcasting and has announced that podcast producers can now place songs during a podcast.

It is Spotify merging music and talk for its subscribers. You could be forgiven for thinking that this is starting to sound a lot like radio. Is this Spotify aggressively taking on radio? Or is this an entirely new form?

On The Aus Media Report we speak with Podnews editor James Cridland about the new Spotify feature.

After we talk with James Parkinson, the producer and host of podcasts By Association and Gameplay about producing his shows. We also get in a bit of Spotify chat.