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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 jeremy0x4a »

Karsteski wrote: post #11
iscrewyou wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I paid for Pocket Casts back in the day. When they switched to subscriptions, they grandfathered me to the Pocket Casts Plus as a lifetime user. I have access to the web app and it syncs the podcasts as well as the play position. Are you referring to something else?

I didn't get grandfathered in. I never saw whatever notification or email they sent out. I only saw last year that that was what happened, and by then I was obviously too late. Obviously, having paid for an online product and having it stolen from me is something I will never forget.

If I remember there wasn't anything that needed to be done on our end, if your account qualified it was just done. Is it possible you have more than one account?

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by lawtalkinghuman »

nxte wrote: post #80
skinnymuch wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Snipd’s features are great. What kind of feature is making podcasts what they aren’t? Taking notes makes sense to me for podcasts. Syncing with https://Readwise.io makes sense to me too.

As someone who's never taken notes while listening to podcasts, I'm curious what your use cases are. Do you listen as part of your research for a project?

Mostly I listen to podcasts but there's a few I listen to for learning, specifically a podcast discussing recent developments in law. I might try listening to these podcasts in Snipd (or with Airr) to try out how easy it is to clip relevant chunks, while using Pocket Casts for the vast stuff I listen to for fun/entertainment.

I think most people listen to podcasts for fun and entertainment so it's unlikely they'll want to clip, get transcripts etc. But the small number of podcasts doing deep dives on scholarly, technical or professional matters? It's potentially quite useful to be able to get transcripts/excerpts with highlights and audio clips to add to personal notes for future reference.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by matheusmoreira »

Glant wrote: post #140
matheusmoreira wrote: post #139

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I hope uBlock Origin integrates it. The real feature is the database of time stamps relating to sponsored content, just like ad blocker filter lists.

Is it based off of a database? Even fairly small YouTube channels seem to work with sponsor block as soon as the videos are uploaded. I always assumed YouTube requires creators to mark which sections are sponsored, and sponsor block has some way of looking that up.

According to Wikipedia, the data is sourced from users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SponsorBlock

> The extension relies on a user-submitted database to identify sponsorships in videos.

> Extension users can submit segments in videos and vote on segments others have submitted.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by iscrewyou »

Karsteski wrote: post #11
iscrewyou wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I paid for Pocket Casts back in the day. When they switched to subscriptions, they grandfathered me to the Pocket Casts Plus as a lifetime user. I have access to the web app and it syncs the podcasts as well as the play position. Are you referring to something else?

I didn't get grandfathered in. I never saw whatever notification or email they sent out. I only saw last year that that was what happened, and by then I was obviously too late. Obviously, having paid for an online product and having it stolen from me is something I will never forget.

Sorry that happened. I have same feeling about vsco. Paid for the presets back in the day and now they are behind a log in screen and subscription.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#145

Post by dns_snek »

Glant wrote: post #140
matheusmoreira wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope uBlock Origin integrates it. The real feature is the database of time stamps relating to sponsored content, just like ad blocker filter lists.

Is it based off of a database? Even fairly small YouTube channels seem to work with sponsor block as soon as the videos are uploaded. I always assumed YouTube requires creators to mark which sections are sponsored, and sponsor block has some way of looking that up.

Yeah, it's crowdsourced and user-moderated. It's open source, including all of the data.

https://sponsor.ajay.app/about

https://api.sponsor.ajay.app/database

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

#146

Post by roumenguha »

rubslopes wrote: post #48
Karsteski wrote: post #5

I really like Pocket Casts. I have basically used it every day since 2014.i don't really like that I bought it years ago, then they switched to a subscription model and I lost access to the one feature I cared about, which was syncing to their webapp. Always leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and it really made me not want to support any more young companies.

This must be an error. I bought it years ago and I was grandfathered for life. Get in touch with them; they are great devs, I'm sure they'll solve this.

I think you had to purchase the web app for an additional fee back then, to be grandfathered for life.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by tapoxi »

nxte wrote: post #81
tapoxi wrote: post #12

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they fixed that and made it permanent.

really? my 3 year period just ended and they asked me to pony up.

https://blog.pocketcasts.com/2019/09/19/we-heard-you/

I'm still on my lifetime plan, maybe open a support ticket?

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by Cub3 »

Thlom wrote: post #26

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 ...)

Completely agree, I've also started buying DRM free audiobooks and storing them in the pocketcasts files, at 116h in my "up next" queue

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Since 14 October 2015 you've listened for:

*143 days 4 hours*

Skipping 6 days 17 hours

Variable Speed 17 days 10 hours

Trim Silence 7 days 10 hours

Auto Skipping 12 hours 17 mins

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by fl0id »

moltar wrote: post #13

Are they open sourcing the backend? The global search is just so bad. I’ve told them multiple times about it. I’d try to contribute a fix if that was possible.

I mean, you could still offer to do it as a contractor maybe...

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by KingJulian »

fbdab103 wrote: post #102
KingJulian wrote: post #22

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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.

This is amusing to me, as my perpetual problem with phone audio is that everything is too loud. I am repeatedly tapping between the lowest tick and full mute, because I am already at the bottom of the standard curve.

I see. It's the opposite for me. I listen to podcasts during long drives. The background noise tends to drown out the audio quite a bit.
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