I’ve been pretty happy with how Automattic has handled PocketCasts and the premium features feel like what you’d expect, while the main product is perfectly usable for 90% of people and use cases. I hope with their acquisition of Beeper, they continue this mindset and add premium features (extra themes, premium stickers, etc) without compromising the main app.
They’re not trying to force everyone to use the alternative product with this message. I think you can export the podcast subscriptions to a number of clients.
MXRoute needs you to have your own domain, but they let you create unlimited accounts at that domain. You’re just limited by total disk space. Sometimes they have good Black Friday deals.
I’d strongly suggest you use your own domain. It means you can easily change provider again in the future while still using the same email address. Get a domain for your surname and give accounts to your family :)
Proton Mail is great, it’s privacy-focused and stores all your emails in an end-to-end encrypted format. It even has a feature that let’s you easily transfer all your stuff from Gmail or other email providers: https://proton.me/support/easy-switch
Antennapod is fine, although it is annoying that there appears to be no way to make it so that it automatically plays the next episode of the podcast you are listening to rather than what you purposefully place into the que.
Pocket Cast is still decent. But they increased the sub prices a lot recently. I was still on an old plan, so I don’t know what I’ll do when it expires. What bugs me more is podcast releasing exclusively on certain platforms. Congratulations, you just reinvented radio
I’m grandfathered in to when their premium was a one-time payment, but I’m trying out AntennaPod again as I’d like to stick with open source solutions. I haven’t used AntennaPod since 2.4.x and I moved back to Pocket Cast because AntennaPod was giving me a weird issue where the app would occasionally lose audio focus when I paused. I’m hoping I don’t run into that issue again, because, other than that, it was every bit as good as Pocket Casts, probably better.
I love being able to arrange by tags, rather than folders.
Good app but they got bought and immediately upped their price by a lot from what I recall. It’s why I moved on. I think it was a more than 3x price hike in the US and as much as 5x elsewhere.
Shame because their desktop option is tied to that subscription. I couldn’t justify paying that much just to swap phone/desktop.
I still use them since i got grandfathered into the pro plan (or whatever its called) without having to pay for a subscription. Not sure if i would pay for it now if i had to.
However, still a really good service for the cost to sync podcasts across lots of devices for anyone who listens to a lot.
I’m glad they open sourced it, but I’m waiting for an F-Droid release. It seems like they’re struggling with this, it took them months and still nothing happened
You self hosters are worse than crossfitters and mountaineers, always stretching to find ways to slip it into conversations. Quit making me feel feelings about how I’m not hosting my own cloud services and just using whatever Google shit exists.
To be fair, I don’t see the point of this app existing when YouTube Music (and, naturally—by extention—YTM ReVanced) already has a dedicated podcast section. No need for redundant apps.
The old Podcast app was simple, it did one thing, and it did it well. YouTube Music seems to be trying to do a dozen different things, and it does a shit job of all of them.
The recommendations are the main reason why I ditched Spotify for YouTube Music ReVanced. Spotify seems to believe that my tastes in music are more indie than they are, just because not everything I listen to has hit a Billboard chart at one point. YTM tends to play the same songs over and over again, but at least they’re songs I recognize.
Also why would I pay $10/mo for Spotify Premium when I could use YTM ReVanced for free and just block the ads? Which is the second reason why I switched.
I have the same impression after comparing it recently to Spotify. On Spotify there is no dislike button so I can’t say, please don’t play this song anymore, I can only ban the entire artist which is definitely not what I want and also not as easy to do. Then when it comes to generated playlist out of one song, the Spotify songs seem irrelevant to the song they start from, while the yt songs are at the very least in the same genre.
And the interface works fine, I’m never sure what people talk about when they say it’s not good.
I’m with you on this one. it’s really easy to go “lol another Google app dead,” but this one case I’m ok with. YouTube has become the place for video podcasts. it wasn’t something YouTube pushed for, it just naturally happened as the site was well built for it. I used to have to use YouTube for video podcasts and pocket casts for audio. now I can just use YouTube music for both, and I find the UI much better at separating music and podcasts then Spotify.
it’s annoying as hell that they don’t have basic features in YouTube music yet tho, like mark as played or notifications for new episodes, which is crazy. you can’t even search the RSS directory for audio podcasts, you have to manually put in the feed
url. it’s the Google Play music shutdown all over again. but I still believe the idea of moving audio podcasts to YouTube music makes sense.
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I’ve been using ‘Pocket Casts’ on Android for years. Highly recommend it.
They finally open sourced the app, but for some reason, they can’t figure out how to submit it to F-Droid. This is so annoying.
https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/424
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues/2236
wow what a shit show in the comments
Yeah but that price jump is nuts. I’m sure there’s something out there 70% as good for 10% of the price.
That’d be Antenna Pod. It’s (IMO) not as good as Pocket Casts, but FOSS is always good.
The thing that keeps me on Pocket Casts is really just the superior queue management. I’ll keep checking back on Antenna Pod though
Amazing thank you. I’ve got the one-year-of-older-price thing for people who were already subscribed.
But seeing as how I don’t use any of the features… when that’s gone I will be unlikely to renew.
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This is not true. The app is free and has no listening limits.
What you can pay for is a web player (for pc), cross device syncing, cloud storage, extra themes, and some other perks.
Been using pocket casts for like 7 years now with no complaints.
I’ve been pretty happy with how Automattic has handled PocketCasts and the premium features feel like what you’d expect, while the main product is perfectly usable for 90% of people and use cases. I hope with their acquisition of Beeper, they continue this mindset and add premium features (extra themes, premium stickers, etc) without compromising the main app.
Damn :(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
This is weird marketing, why not just say “we’re merging Google podcast and YouTube music into one app”?
YouTube music is a steaming pile of crap and I hate it.
They’re not trying to force everyone to use the alternative product with this message. I think you can export the podcast subscriptions to a number of clients.
Plugging Podcast Addict. I don’t even use the paid version, but it is awesome!
Same here. Had it for years and it’s always been great. Eventually paid for Pro to support them.
Been using this one for a decade and it does everything I need it to.
I’m just making sure I live up to its name:
Unfortunately not FOSS 😭
That is unfortunate. But it’s like an old-school program: does everything possible, just consider the options yourself!
Unfortunately it’s also filled with trackers: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.bambuna.podcastaddict/latest/
My almost 7,000 hours of podcasts listened through Podcast Addict since 2019 would agree
i think its a bit more simple than that
If a product is really good experience for you (ie. Not crammed with ads) AND you dont pay anything for it, then it’s not profitable.
Google didnt become one of the biggest companies in the world by doing volunteer work for your benefit
They only exist to show ads and/or harvest your data. Once those goals are met, then the user doesnt matter. They NEVER mattered
I don’t think Google Podcasts required that much maintenance. However it didn’t have the ads that YouTube Music does.
AntennaPod has been a perfect, free replacement.
Googles antics with its service killing is what lead me to trying out the Apple walled garden.
Now I just need to quit Gmail somehow, sometime.
For email, FastMail and MXRoute are good.
MXRoute needs you to have your own domain, but they let you create unlimited accounts at that domain. You’re just limited by total disk space. Sometimes they have good Black Friday deals.
I’d strongly suggest you use your own domain. It means you can easily change provider again in the future while still using the same email address. Get a domain for your surname and give accounts to your family :)
Proton Mail is great, it’s privacy-focused and stores all your emails in an end-to-end encrypted format. It even has a feature that let’s you easily transfer all your stuff from Gmail or other email providers: https://proton.me/support/easy-switch
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Worth the $30/year (they have a free tier too)
You should switch to AntennaPod.
That’s my go to, FOSS app that rivals the major apps.
There are other podcast apps on F-Droid also.
Antennapod is fine, although it is annoying that there appears to be no way to make it so that it automatically plays the next episode of the podcast you are listening to rather than what you purposefully place into the que.
Used to use pocket cast instead of this, its great
Pocket Cast is still decent. But they increased the sub prices a lot recently. I was still on an old plan, so I don’t know what I’ll do when it expires. What bugs me more is podcast releasing exclusively on certain platforms. Congratulations, you just reinvented radio
I memba when a podcast was an mp3 scraped from an rss feed. Enshitification catches all in the end. 😞
I’m grandfathered in to when their premium was a one-time payment, but I’m trying out AntennaPod again as I’d like to stick with open source solutions. I haven’t used AntennaPod since 2.4.x and I moved back to Pocket Cast because AntennaPod was giving me a weird issue where the app would occasionally lose audio focus when I paused. I’m hoping I don’t run into that issue again, because, other than that, it was every bit as good as Pocket Casts, probably better.
I love being able to arrange by tags, rather than folders.
Trying to find my podcasts in YouTube Music’s Android Auto app took around 8 button presses. Google Podcasts took 0.
I switched to Spotify for podcasts and it still takes 3 or so, but good enough for now.
Podcast Republic is my go to.
PocketCasts is good.
Good app but they got bought and immediately upped their price by a lot from what I recall. It’s why I moved on. I think it was a more than 3x price hike in the US and as much as 5x elsewhere.
Shame because their desktop option is tied to that subscription. I couldn’t justify paying that much just to swap phone/desktop.
Ah, the free plan meets my needs so I didn’t notice the price increase.
I still use them since i got grandfathered into the pro plan (or whatever its called) without having to pay for a subscription. Not sure if i would pay for it now if i had to.
However, still a really good service for the cost to sync podcasts across lots of devices for anyone who listens to a lot.
I’m glad they open sourced it, but I’m waiting for an F-Droid release. It seems like they’re struggling with this, it took them months and still nothing happened
https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/424
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues/2236
I selfhost audiobookshelf for all my podcast needs.
I use it for audiobooks already, does it do podcasts well? As in, do I need to download the podcasts somehow and put it in like an audiobook?
It does podcasts perfectly. Select podcasts as your library and then add in the podcast URLs
Yea it’s really amazing
Nice! I shall give that a try later on
You self hosters are worse than crossfitters and mountaineers, always stretching to find ways to slip it into conversations. Quit making me feel feelings about how I’m not hosting my own cloud services and just using whatever Google shit exists.
Sorry if I made you feel that way.
This was a joke but apparently nobody was amused.
I thought it was funny. I miss it.
In that case I have no choice but to restore the post by popular demand.
I regret that I have but one upvote to give
Do I seem like I can see your face whike you are making this post and realize it’s a joke?
Good thing I never started using it! Fuck you Google, Reader, Inbox and Music taught me never to get into your shit again.
Raising a glass To Inbox, we hardly knew ye
To be fair, I don’t see the point of this app existing when YouTube Music (and, naturally—by extention—YTM ReVanced) already has a dedicated podcast section. No need for redundant apps.
The old Podcast app was simple, it did one thing, and it did it well. YouTube Music seems to be trying to do a dozen different things, and it does a shit job of all of them.
I’m using it and I’m quite happy with it, I even think it’s better than Spotify especially the music recommendations
The recommendations are the main reason why I ditched Spotify for YouTube Music ReVanced. Spotify seems to believe that my tastes in music are more indie than they are, just because not everything I listen to has hit a Billboard chart at one point. YTM tends to play the same songs over and over again, but at least they’re songs I recognize.
Also why would I pay $10/mo for Spotify Premium when I could use YTM ReVanced for free and just block the ads? Which is the second reason why I switched.
I have the same impression after comparing it recently to Spotify. On Spotify there is no dislike button so I can’t say, please don’t play this song anymore, I can only ban the entire artist which is definitely not what I want and also not as easy to do. Then when it comes to generated playlist out of one song, the Spotify songs seem irrelevant to the song they start from, while the yt songs are at the very least in the same genre.
And the interface works fine, I’m never sure what people talk about when they say it’s not good.
I’m with you on this one. it’s really easy to go “lol another Google app dead,” but this one case I’m ok with. YouTube has become the place for video podcasts. it wasn’t something YouTube pushed for, it just naturally happened as the site was well built for it. I used to have to use YouTube for video podcasts and pocket casts for audio. now I can just use YouTube music for both, and I find the UI much better at separating music and podcasts then Spotify.
it’s annoying as hell that they don’t have basic features in YouTube music yet tho, like mark as played or notifications for new episodes, which is crazy. you can’t even search the RSS directory for audio podcasts, you have to manually put in the feed url. it’s the Google Play music shutdown all over again. but I still believe the idea of moving audio podcasts to YouTube music makes sense.