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Pocket Casts goes open source

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Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by bestham »

eropple wrote: post #3

Reading this made me grin. Pocket Casts is one of the only applications that's survived me bouncing between iOS and Android and back again over the last who-knows-how-many years and I paid for their web player a long time ago, too. I've tried other players and none of them stick; the differences in affordances in something like Castro or Overcast send me back to Pocket Casts every time. They seem to have had a rough…

Spot on: “the land of the misfit web toys” or “this would have been killed at Google”.

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Post by KingJulian »

brnt wrote: post #15

If I use Antennapod, is there any reason to check this out?

PocketCasts has a feature called _Volume Boost_ which boosts the sound level. This is often helpful in some podcasts where the audio level is a bit too low in some sections.

To my knowledge, Antennapod does not have this. I've been using it for over a year now.

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Post by neverrroot »

Hope someone can add a feature for recording snippets, and maybe even one for bookmarks with notes. One of the hardest things to keep track of, getting back to the interesting pieces of a podcast. Every episode I listen to has something worth remembering, right now managing that is truly cumbersome / time consuming.

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Post by Thlom »

Best part of PocketCast is the stats. It can tell me that since 2016 I've listened to 135 days worth of podcasts and apparently I've "saved" 46 days by increasing the playback speed and 3 days from trimming silence. (I also have 350 hours in my "up next" queue ...)

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Post by kasabali »

KingJulian wrote: post #22
brnt wrote: post #15

If I use Antennapod, is there any reason to check this out?

PocketCasts has a feature called _Volume Boost_ which boosts the sound level. This is often helpful in some podcasts where the audio level is a bit too low in some sections. To my knowledge, Antennapod does not have this. I've been using it for over a year now.

Is it a simple boost or is it dynamic range compression? If the latter I might be interested.

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Post by zppln »

jimmySixDOF wrote: post #14

After being a user for many many years, I just recently tested out to Snipd [1] and have not looked back since. Pocket Cast were great but I don't see them innovating. With Snipd there is almost always a full text transcript available including a surprisingly accurate AI generated Table of Contents to cue through. Then I can easily save a transcribed clip of some section I am listening to for export to a TfT program…

> I don't see them innovating

For a podcast app that's a feature, not a bug.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by donatzsky »

shimonabi wrote: post #7

I was using it a few years ago, but then I switched to Google Podcasts. I will try it again, because Google Podcasts makes a "pop" sound notification every time it begins to download new episodes and it can't be turned off in the settings. It's very annoying.

Can't you use the Android system level notification settings? Many apps don't have any notification settings themselves, since Android provides them.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by yzydserd »

jimmySixDOF wrote: post #14

After being a user for many many years, I just recently tested out to Snipd [1] and have not looked back since. Pocket Cast were great but I don't see them innovating. With Snipd there is almost always a full text transcript available including a surprisingly accurate AI generated Table of Contents to cue through. Then I can easily save a transcribed clip of some section I am listening to for export to a TfT program…

Thanks for this.

Pocket Cast user 2013-2018

Castro user 2018-2022. I switched to them after an awful PC rewrite.

Snipd looks interesting. May be my 2022-2026 daily driver.

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