Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by zer0zzz » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 9:53 PM UTC

mardifoufs wrote: post #130

zer0zzz wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve also come to enjoy Apple Music. Has the same upload capabilities I liked with google music plus it matches them to lossless these days. Took apple like 5-6 years to make the ui not suck but it’s decent these days too. Also, no joe rogan podcast being recommended to me constantly when I just want music and there’s a nice separate classical music app too.

I don't think I've ever had a JRE podcast recommended to me on Spotify. They seem to have dialed down the podcasts in the front page (or at least they did so for people who care less about them, like me). I still get some and I agree that it's pretty annoying especially when I misclick on a podcast (especially jarring since podcasts have ads even with premium!)

Nothing is worse than constantly seeing jre show up on your cars CarPlay/android auto screen because of Spotify. I will never use them again because of that. Also their high bitrate lossless rollout was a lie.

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by KoolKat23 » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 9:53 PM UTC

jaderobbins1 wrote: post #127

pentagrama wrote: post #123

I really like the simplicity of Google Podcasts, it does one thing and pretty well. I'm also a Spotify user and despise have podcasts mixed with music, so bloated and clunky (also Spotify performance isn't good), music and podcasts are different usecases for me, I'm on different mood. I don't want to jump to YouTube Music, and the last time I did a research, I can't find a simple Podcast app that is free, simple, ad-…

I think the point about separation of Music and Podcasts is an important one for me as well. I really don't like mixing the two, they have two different use cases imo. Drives me nuts how much Spotify pushes podcasts when I just want to listen to some tunes.

I once tapped on a podcast link that someone sent me that opened in Spotify. I was haunted by podcast recommendations for months, if not years afterwards. I honestly wouldn't care if there was a completely separate tab in the app that didn't influence recommendations.

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by zer0zzz » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 9:55 PM UTC

JeremyNT wrote: post #137

fourseventy wrote: post #100

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.

It's amazing how incompetent they seem in this area. They even shut down another podcast app before your journey began, called Google listen. Luckily, although you might want Google's proprietary music player to access their subscription content, there's absolutely no reason to use a Google podcast app. I am a fan of Antennapod[0], which is available on F-Droid. [0] https://antennapod.org/

Oh man, wait until you hear how incompetent they are at messaging apps.

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by theonlybutlet » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 9:55 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #72

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" ?

To be fair, I just received an email from Google entitled "Google Podcasts is going away". Until I read your post I wasn't aware they were doing this.

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by zer0zzz » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 9:55 PM UTC

zer0zzz wrote: post #153

JeremyNT wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's amazing how incompetent they seem in this area. They even shut down another podcast app before your journey began, called Google listen. Luckily, although you might want Google's proprietary music player to access their subscription content, there's absolutely no reason to use a Google podcast app. I am a fan of Antennapod[0], which is available on F-Droid. [0] https://antennapod.org/

Oh man, wait until you hear how incompetent they are at messaging apps.

And health apps

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by nevereveragain » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 9:55 PM UTC

zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #7

Zetobal wrote: post #4

Ffs... I am a really good predictor for what Google is killing next. I just started using it because it was preinstalled on the pixel and I was lazy.

Same. Simple app that I use to listen to a sleep podcast because I can't listen to the Patreon feed on Spotify.

They _still_ don't support adding a custom feed?

That miss was what pushed me to google podcast in the first place, along with their absolute refusal to fix broken feeds for existing podcasts in their index.

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by politelemon » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 10:01 PM UTC

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #103

fourseventy wrote: post #100

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.

Gotta launch (and shut down) to get promos!

This is what really annoys me. For certain there will be people at g noticing this constant bouncing about so that some pointless product manager can get their promotion and bonus. They are noticing the damage this does to them. And it's even possible they are highlighting it. But they are completely unable to do anything about it.

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by ashishb » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 10:01 PM UTC

After the demise of Google Play Music, I wrote https://musicsync.ashishb.net

When the rumors of Google Podcasts being killed started circulating, I added podcast support to my app. In many cases matching or doing better than the Google Podcasts in terms of useful features.

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by ashishb » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 10:06 PM UTC

AbraKdabra wrote: post #49

sf_rob wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A fate worse than death. (Joke but I was a heavy Google Music user before it suffered the same fate).

I really miss Play Music, sadly I grew accustomed to the half baked YouTube Music crap, it's that or fall into the Spotify hell.

If you store music locally or on Google Drive then give https://musicsync.ashishb.net/ a try

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by smsm42 » Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 10:07 PM UTC

In a year or two somebody would realize that YT is for videos and it doesn't make sense to keep music and podcasts there, and a new Google service is born... It's the circle of life.