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Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

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Re: Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

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Post by fluidcruft »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #14

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…

For the most part I like it but there are some annoyances in queue/download management and playlists. They're known issues that they are working on. Currently there's just one queue which can get extremely annoying when mixing episodic and news podcasts. They're working on supporting multiple queues which should be a great solution. I don't think that feature has been released yet (but I could be wrong). Hopefully this restructuring makes things easier.

Re: Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

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Post by crabmusket »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #14

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…

I moved from Pocket Casts (which I really did like) to AntennaPod sometime after the a question of the former. I've experienced what you describe in some other apps, but not AntennaPod. It is lighter on some features as other replies have described, but the core experience is really solid and straightforward.

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Post by newhotelowner »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #14

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…

I like it except two issues.

One is that there is not a simple way to add an episode to the queue. The main button is to start streaming. I wish I could change the stream button to add to the queue.

On Android Auto, when it starts streaming the next item in the queue, now playing screen changes to the the queue list. I wish it always stays on Now Playing screen.

Re: Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

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Post by brunoqc »

parineum wrote: post #17
brunoqc wrote: post #5

Semi related. I wonder if they are planning to use the open podcast API https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3390-intr...

From your link... > 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?

I'm an idiot. I searched the new blog article, but not the other way around. Thanks.

Re: Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

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Post by keunes »

mdaniel wrote: post #4
wildrhythms wrote: post #2

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 spotted Podcini https://github.com/XilinJia/Podcini#readme > on f-droid https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ac.mdiq.podcini/ > over the weekend and it is the first contender to remove Podcast Addict from my phone. I just need to fix a few UX bugs (for my workflow) but I'm stoked about it

Why is it your first contender, rather than AntennaPod? Podcini is a fork of AP and it seems that at this point they're still quite the same.

Re: Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

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Post by keunes »

easyKL wrote: post #25

Still waiting for them to catch up and join the revolution of sat streaming, boostagrams , and other Podcasting 2.0 features. Still my app of choice (due to F-Droid availability and many years of playback history).

Discussions are ongoing: https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues?q=is%3Aopen+... & https://forum.antennapod.org/t/improve-podcasting-2-0-covera...
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