I'd immediately switch to any podcast app that automatically skips ads like the Youtube Ad Skipper Chrome extension.
So you don't want your favorite podcasts to sustain themselves at all?
gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client
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#12It's desktop only (no Android or iOS support) which makes me wonder: what percentage of overall podcast listening occurs on a desktop computer? Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess maybe 10-15%? For me, podcast listening has always been an inherently mobile activity, and it would drive me nuts if I had podcatchers on multiple devices that were out of sync with each other.
It is probably low as you presumed, but I personally try to do as little as possible on my phone. gPodder was great for me when I was actively listening to podcasts at the beginning of the pandemic. I appreciate the snappiness of desktop apps over web apps, so I'm probably the target audience.
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#13As the kids say: podders.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get sponsor block if you want to get rid of these pesky sponsorship messages in YouTube videos too
There was some discussion about integrating SponsorBlock into AntennaPod (a popular open source podcast app) a while back, but it didn't go anywhere. Ajay (developer of SB) was very open to the idea, so anyone interested in developing ad skipping technology for podcasts should probably get in touch with them. I think getting a proof of concept podcast app that skips ads should not be all that difficult.
I wonder if you could train some machine learning model using the data from SponsorBlock and achieve good results on podcasts as well. That way you wouldn't be dependent on a crowdsourced online database for your offline listening. Alternatively, even creating a transscript using something like [1] and scanning for words like "sponsor", "ad" or specific company names might already be a good enough heuristic.
Re: gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client
#15It's desktop only (no Android or iOS support) which makes me wonder: what percentage of overall podcast listening occurs on a desktop computer? Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess maybe 10-15%? For me, podcast listening has always been an inherently mobile activity, and it would drive me nuts if I had podcatchers on multiple devices that were out of sync with each other.
Yes, desktop only, however there are a number of podcast apps that support gpodder.net syncing. I use AntennaPod on Android, and gPodder on Fedora desktop.
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#16Cool to see this still being developed. I used to use gPodder back in the 2000s to tag and organize podcasts, rename the files based on the feed metadata and tag the genre as 'podcast' so that I could segment that content on my Sansa Clip mp3 player.
Sort of wish I'd more carefully archived some of those old episodes, especially Wiretap. In that era it felt like there less than a dozen high-quality podcasts and it seemed possible to listen to everything.
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#17I've been using this a few years.
- improving steadily
- naming on episodes used to make sense (but this could be a podcast issue)
- I've a bunch of podcasts (CBC News ones for instance) which re-download "as new" every reload. This is annoying. I suspect advertising has a great deal to do with it. No idea how to mitigate.
- Could do with better handling when podcasts go offline or move (404 on URL)
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#18It's desktop only (no Android or iOS support) which makes me wonder: what percentage of overall podcast listening occurs on a desktop computer? Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess maybe 10-15%? For me, podcast listening has always been an inherently mobile activity, and it would drive me nuts if I had podcatchers on multiple devices that were out of sync with each other.
It's right there in the name "pod" cast.
In the early days of podcasts I listened to them on my computer (downloaded over precious dial up time, where the time to download the episode was longer than the time required to listen to it), but as soon as I got an iPod they were a mobile thing for me.
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#19It's desktop only (no Android or iOS support) which makes me wonder: what percentage of overall podcast listening occurs on a desktop computer? Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess maybe 10-15%? For me, podcast listening has always been an inherently mobile activity, and it would drive me nuts if I had podcatchers on multiple devices that were out of sync with each other.
I used to only listen on desktop, at work, and for a while with gPodder. Now I use AntennaPod on mobile and sometimes others. Desktop is nice when you're doing something routine and enjoy hearing a conversation or trivia in the background.
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#20It's desktop only (no Android or iOS support) which makes me wonder: what percentage of overall podcast listening occurs on a desktop computer? Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess maybe 10-15%? For me, podcast listening has always been an inherently mobile activity, and it would drive me nuts if I had podcatchers on multiple devices that were out of sync with each other.
I remember gpodder working well on the Nokia N900.