if you point your clanker at https://media.thebadnerds.show/episodes/misc/share/0974895238fb5b1e.txt it can explain, just need a host that can serve files from a directory and just link the master.m3u...
yeah CDNs do a better job with caching the HLS segments. Having hundreds of segments make them harder to use with blossom though. Without any folder organization thousands of random blobs are annoying to manage.
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