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I'd immediately switch to any podcast app that automatically skips ads like the Youtube Ad Skipper Chrome extension.
Full disclosure, my employer facilitates offering paid private feeds to podcast audiences.
It'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.
Nowadays I'm using gPodder on a phone with Sailfish OS:
https://openrepos.net/content/keeperofthekeys/gpodder
The app is actually linked from the submitted page, but it's easy to miss there.
I also noticed that if I create list of shows to listen to later, I end up listening to more interesting stuff, as I filter out items which are not as useful few weeks later.
It'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 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.
Edison Research says that desktops/laptops account for 13% of listening in Q4'2021, having dropped 7% since the start of that year. I'd predict that it falls to under 10% by the end of 2022.
On Android, AntennaPod has excellent integration with gpodder.net servers (which you can self-host), and is also free software.
I've tried every iOS app I could find. They're all turrible for this use case. Yes, even Overcast. [1]
I truly wonder if anybody making the apps ever used their own apps.
I just tried gPodder. Alas, the UI is 1/4 size.
[1] Overcast shows played episodes in the unplayed tab. So to download episode 200, I have to scroll down thru 199 played episodes, then manually download the next episodes. Yes, I filed bug reports.
On Android, AntennaPod has excellent integration with gpodder.net servers (which you can self-host), and is also free software.
Also, AntennaPod does not strip the tracking information from podcast URLs.
Self-hosting a podcast server might not be a bad idea.
It'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.
It integrated with Panucci, which for me has an ideal (although a little unfinished) interface for playing podcasts/ebooks, I don't know what I'm going to do without Panucci when the N900 finally goes kaput. I heard its code is horrific, though, and that the qPodder guy hated it.