flop_leash_973Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts
For anyone getting this news here. On Android, one of the best replacements is AntennaPod.
I’ve always been a fan of Pocket Casts personally.
I have a lifetime membership with PocketCasts, but I don’t know if I’d chose it today with the subscription. A few months ago, they shipped a buggy version and I temporarily switched to AntennaPod and was considering staying.
kratoz29AntennaPod and was considering staying.
How do you deal with multi OS support?
I don’t use multiple devices anymore, so it’s not an issue for me.
Podcast Addict is not quite as streamlined, but has many more features.
I have used this for years now. It's really great. I have it set to skip the first 7 minutes of only certain podcasts because they usually have 7 - 8 minutes of ads. I also have it skip silences, which speeds up listening more than I first thought it would.
phobiacThe dev is also very responsive if you reach out with any issues.
gen/EricAnother vote for Podcast Addict. It works with Android Auto in my car :-)
Now to listen to all these shows I have downloaded…
BlóðbókWhat you describe is also a feature of AntennaPod
Awesome! I actually downloaded Antenna Pod to compare, but I can’t seem to find this setting, could you point it out to me?
I don’t know if it’s actually a setting, I’ve only noticed the behaviour. Neat little feature!
For auto skip, inside the podcast, in Podcast settings (rightmost icon of a gear) it’s called “Auto skip” and skips the first and last n,m seconds. For auto rewinding I’m not sure.
Bobby TurkalinoFor iOS, Overcast is the only correct answer
I have come to rather like Downcast on iOS myself. Should check it out if you never have.
MxM111I still use the default app. What can be better there?
poppyI like that I can create my own playlists with multiple sort options. It also has more speed options, as well as its own “shorten pauses” thing where it clips down awkward pauses and stuff.
HamartiogonicPlease elaborate.
I’m a big fan of Podcast Republic. Great dev, feature-rich, and a much improved UI from when I first started using it.
Podcast Republic is my choice as well. It’s the only Podcast app that I could find that let’s you choose your download folder. I like to play my podcasts with the same app I listen to books with, so I need to download the podcasts to a publicly accessible folder.
atocciAlso a big fan of AntennaPod, I switched to it back when Google first announced they were axing Podcasts and thought I'd have a lot less time to abandon ship than I ended up with.
Thanks for the recommendation. I was wondering what else to try as I sure as hell don't want to use YouTube and it doesn't seem like you can have a separate podcast playlist in Spotify.
no bananaI love Pocket Casts. Sadly I have a hard time recommending it to new people since they switched to subscription model payment. The reason I love it is because of what it was, not what it is. I’m grandfathered into the "pay once, own forever"and if I wasn’t I would probably be using something else these days.
I use the free tier and it is very good. Does everything I need. I won’t pay for a subscription for a podcast app, so it’s shame I can’t buy it to show my appreciation.
In any case, the free tier is really good.
I pay $10/year for my podcast app (Overcast). Considering it does everything I want it to do that a lot of other apps don’t (or didn’t, years ago when I started with Overcast), and I use it 8+ hours a day it seems reasonable.
I really like this app, not so much paying a subscription. But I wanted access on both my phone and my PC and that was the only way to get it.
breakfastmtnI don’t mind their subscription model. All the subscription features – cloud storage, folders, desktop app, extra themes – really feel like bonus features that aren’t essential.
I guess. I don’t know what I would do without the desktop app and the cloud storage though. I just log in everywhere and everything is synced up and working.
It depends on your usage, for sure. For me, I’m more on the side of not seeing much there that’s valuable enough to subscribe to, though I’d probably pay a few bucks for the app just to support them. I think that if you’re happy with Google Podcasts, though, you’ll be happy with Pocket Casts without a subscription. It’s not like you have to pay for basic functionality, like downloading or queuing episodes, which is the evil version of the subscription model.
danielfgomI recommend Podcast Republic. Maybe recommend that to people?
jennwiththeseaI went to download it, and apparently I already had! Now to start subscribing to everything again…bleh.
Oh, sweet! Thank you. I’ll see if I can figure this out this weekend.
Looking at the data safety info, I think I’ll go with Antenna Pod
Completely fair, it it however worth mentioning that you can disable this data collection in settings.
To be fair perhaps they want to make it possible to download the podcast unencrypted in MP3
PodcastAddict is better in my opinion
Yeah podcast addict was the shit
I tried AntennaPod but went back because of Android Auto. I just found this showing how to get AntennaPod on AndroidAuto!
