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Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by KingJulian » Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 4:43 PM UTC

infamia wrote: post #121

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.

AntennaPod has a volume reduction setting that is per podcast which solves the same problem, but from the opposite side if the spectrum. All of the podcasts that I subscribe to that have poor volume levels are all too loud. I'm sure there are lots of others that are too low though.

I wasn't familiar with the audio reduction feature. Thanks for pointing it out. My issue has more to do with background noise from my surroundings.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by nzrf » Tue, Oct 25, 2022, 9:30 PM UTC

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…

Can’t agree more with this statement! Definitely on my yearly renew list!

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by therealdrag0 » Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 3:30 AM UTC

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 ...)

In Overcast I have “Smart Speed has saved you and extra 252 hours beyond speed adjustments alone,” which is gnarly. But I don’t see any total listening stats bummer.

Re: Pocket Casts goes open source

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Post by hombre_fatal » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 3:47 PM UTC

doublepg23 wrote: post #132

hombre_fatal wrote: post #103

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I imagine very few people care about that. I can’t remember the last time I had to paste in a podcast url anywhere. I just search for a podcast in-app and click “Subscribe”.

Paid subscription podcasts are very popular nowadays. It’s essential to add your paid RSS feed to an app.

Good point.