One way to avoid the mess that is Google Music app is to subscribe to your podcast on your RSS feed which provides much better organization than whatever is happening in Google Music. Its truly astonishing how bad this app is.
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why anyone would use a proprietary podcasting app is beyond me! It's preinstalled on Android. Easy to get started... Defaults are a powerful thing. Thanks for the recommendation! I was just looking for another app to switch to.
AntennaPod is good if you value FLOSS over UX, but I continue to get my money's worth from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.po... (it's IAP, so you don't have to pay to try it) I just happen to still have my notes where I was evaluating players a while back and here's why I chose Podcast Addict over AntennaPod, with this written from the perspective of "why not AntennaPod" * auto download sho…
I've just tried AntennaPod.
Unless there's some setting I am missing, I think it doesn't let you search for podcast episodes and then play them without subscribing to a podcast. In that respect, Google podcasts is better.
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#203We 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/
Antennapod is also available on Android.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
AntennaPod is good if you value FLOSS over UX, but I continue to get my money's worth from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.po... (it's IAP, so you don't have to pay to try it) I just happen to still have my notes where I was evaluating players a while back and here's why I chose Podcast Addict over AntennaPod, with this written from the perspective of "why not AntennaPod" * auto download sho…
I've just tried AntennaPod. Unless there's some setting I am missing, I think it doesn't let you search for podcast episodes and then play them without subscribing to a podcast. In that respect, Google podcasts is better.
I believe you are correct, since unsubbing from a podcast will likewise delete all episodes associated with that podcast.
Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024
#205Good riddance, what a dumpster fire. The tiny buttons for pause, replay, skip buttons are all right next to each other on the lock screen, so you often skip podcasts when you really want to pause or fast forward. on the other hand, the rewind 10-seconds button has half the real estate of the widget. Downloads arent automatically deleted even after the episode is completed (even if you mark as played or remove from qu…
Have you tried Pocket Casts? https://pocketcasts.com/ It's now owned by Automattic (of Wordpress.com and tumblr) and the clients are open source https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android
I switched from iOS/Overcast to Android/PocketCasts and I found it had a number of benefits which I struggle to recall now... batch downloads might be one of them.
My main bug bear is how how some screens are drawers and some screens are pages which makes navigation confusing. Even after years of use, I still keep accidentally closing the drawer screens when trying to scroll and trying to navigate backwards which isn't allowed. Please... just make them all pages so they behave consistently with the same navigation and gestures.
Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024
#206We 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!
Bingo. This is the reason. The higherups that approve promos are mostly tech-illiterate, so if you're a manager that oversees maintenance/fix work that isn't new and shiny and sexy and dressed up with marketing, you're never getting promoted and neither are your reports.
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The amount of people who use YouTube to listen to music around the world is massive.
I always assumed that the real reason YouTube Music was released was for Google to actually save on bandwidth.
They could actually just roll out a toggle that disables the video for that.
Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024
#208We 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/
Antennapod is the a major reason why I haven't moved to an iPhone.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried Pocket Casts? https://pocketcasts.com/ It's now owned by Automattic (of Wordpress.com and tumblr) and the clients are open source https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android
I switched from iOS/Overcast to Android/PocketCasts and I found it had a number of benefits which I struggle to recall now... batch downloads might be one of them. My main bug bear is how how some screens are drawers and some screens are pages which makes navigation confusing. Even after years of use, I still keep accidentally closing the drawer screens when trying to scroll and trying to navigate backwards which isn…
I use PocketCasts on iOS and agree about the sheets, I think the theory is that your "Now Playing" page is basically an overlay that can exist anywhere in the app, so you can go around looking at other podcasts while you listen but quickly pop back in to what's playing. Apple Music is set up the same way, I wonder if that was the inspiration for that layout.
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#210Unpopular opinion: i loved it and used it everyday, sad to see a lightweight app with no BS on any part of the screen die.
I love the balance between simplicity and utility. Ability to download podcasts for later, queue them up into a playlist, cast to a device, easily search through thousands of existing podcasts but able to add the RSS if needed, timeline for recent podcast episodes, etc
Yepp. Google Podcasts hit the right spot in terms of auto playing my next podcast that I don't have with other apps I've used. Managing all podcasts across devices made switching phones seamless. I'll actually miss it.
But I've wanted to switch to a more open option so I'll have to figure those things out elsewhere.