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>AntennaPod doesn’t need a lot of money. Our (annual) costs are already covered by our existing donation funds. Therefore, we’d much prefer it if you donate to your favorite podcast(er), orhelp us with a non-monetary contribution.
It's pretty much always developers that are the main contributors in communities like this and they want everything to be configurable. So you get things like a bunch of inputs and sliders for configuring various buffer sizes and timeouts and whatnot.
I use Pocket Casts and love it because it's simple and looks nice and works great.
How is antenna pod?
How is antenna pod? My experience with these kinds of open-source apps aimed at end users is that unless there's any kind of actual product or design direction saying yes/no to every little thing someone in the community wants to add, it turns into a bloated mess for everyone except for the community experts in open-source podcast apps. It's pretty much always developers that are the main contributors in communities…
1. If you want to discover new podcasts, you will have to do that somewhere else.
2. Playlisting is not as good as others.
If you follow a few podcasts and aren't too opinionated about it then AntennaPod is a perfectly good app. I also use pocketcasts as I am married to my different filters and ability to sync playback status to PC.
Semi related. I wonder if they are planning to use the open podcast API https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3390-intr...
> Over at AntennaPod, we often get requests and comments about synchronization of listening data. The existing gPodder API has some fundamental flaws and misses capabilities. So we took the initiative together with Funkwhale to develop a new standard to sync your listening data. What do we do differently & why, where are we at, and what calls are in the planning?
Glad to have a FOSS podcast app. I switched to Antennapod after Google Podcasts shut down. I have about a dozen podcasts I listen to, half of them from Patreon RSS feeds. Works great!
I had to use an iPhone for a month when I lost my Android phone so I tried Spotify for podcasts. I can't describe how bad it is, impossible to control what you want to play, complete garbage. AntennaPod is an example of what software can be when you remove greed from the equation.