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Unpopular opinion: i loved it and used it everyday, sad to see a lightweight app with no BS on any part of the screen die.
Same here, I switched from apple podcasts after their home re-organization that ruined the experience for me. Guess I should have known better.
I guess I'm not helping but I literally can't for many podcasts now.
We have gone full circle. I started with Google Music which had both music and podcasts at the time. Then they took podcasts out of Google Music and made me install a second Google Podcast app just to listen to my podcasts. Then they shut down Google Music and forced me to move to YouTube Music. Now they are shutting down Google Podcasts and integrating that back into YouTube Music. Like WTF.
HN moderators: why was title changed from more accurate "Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music" to misleading "Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024" ?
"Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024" isn't misleading, that's exactly what's happening. The fact that they're trying to force people onto YouTube Music isn't relevant for me.
It sounds like you just want to rant?
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A fate worse than death. (Joke but I was a heavy Google Music user before it suffered the same fate).
I was a paid Google Music from way back. The best thing about the move to YouTube Music was opening up all kinds of independent tracks and mashups that weren't available in official music catalogs.
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A fate worse than death. (Joke but I was a heavy Google Music user before it suffered the same fate).
That was an annoying and janky migration, but Youtube Music has a better interface than Google Play Music ever did. Though conceptually it's still just weird. A video that I like on youtube because of the video component isn't necessarily a song I want to listen to as music. Also it really needs the ability to block music from certain artists.
Off-topic: Would be great to have a way again to simply share links to podcast-episodes which work regardless of the used app. Before the podcast-hype one could simply share the direct-link to the audio-file. Now all you get are links which require Google/Apple/Spotify to open. (But realistically, I don't know who would be willing to drive this. It would need backing from at least Google/Apple/Spotify to maintain a c…
Whether each individual episode is a separately entity (like, with a distinct URI or whatever) within that format, I don't know.
Why did Google fail to turn "simple" apps like Google Podcasts and Google Reader into low maintenance apps? Google Podcasts is so simple it could even have been an open source reference app showcasing Flutter and some backend GCP services.
Same reason Reader got killed.
Nobody wants to work on that.