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Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by runamok »

phito wrote: post #190
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-…

You realise that wanting a free and ad-free player will always lead you to this? Why not just pay for a good podcast app?

Any suggestions?

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by JeremyNT »

kyriakos wrote: post #216
JeremyNT wrote: post #137

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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/

benefit of google podcasts compared to antennapod is that with google podcasts I can start a podcast on one device and later continue where I left off on another device (e.g. listen on mobile then switch to desktop).

I don't use this functionality myself and can't vouch for it, but have you looked into the synchronization options? It seems as if it should be possible. They support self-hosting as well. [0]

[0] https://antennapod.org/documentation/general/synchronization

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by kyriakos »

JeremyNT wrote: post #223
kyriakos wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

benefit of google podcasts compared to antennapod is that with google podcasts I can start a podcast on one device and later continue where I left off on another device (e.g. listen on mobile then switch to desktop).

I don't use this functionality myself and can't vouch for it, but have you looked into the synchronization options? It seems as if it should be possible. They support self-hosting as well. [0] [0] https://antennapod.org/documentation/general/synchronization

thanks. gPodder seems to be the missing piece.

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by jerrybender »

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-…

Podurama is this

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by cxr »

rickdeckard wrote: post #89

Off-topic: Would be great to have a way again to simply share links to podcast-episodes which work regardless of the used app. Before the podcast-hype one could simply share the direct-link to the audio-file. Now all you get are links which require Google/Apple/Spotify to open. (But realistically, I don't know who would be willing to drive this. It would need backing from at least Google/Apple/Spotify to maintain a c…

> Would be great to have a way again to simply share links to podcast-episodes which work regardless of the used app.

There's nothing stopping this from happening today except for app developers not putting any UI for it in their apps. HTTP has a Link header (which servers should already be sending, whether apps actually do anything with it or not), RSS has a field to link to pages, HTML has `link` elements (and the `rel` attribute for `a` elements) to link back to the file, and audio file containers of course let people include metadata.

So linking to a podcast episode is as simple in principle as giving someone a URL directly to the file or the associated episode page. (It's a URL. That's it. Done.) It's getting application authors and server operators to do their part, though, which is another matter.

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Post by cxr »

rickdeckard wrote: post #149
tantalor wrote: post #108

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I would assume that's not too hard given most podcasts use RSS or similar for distribution. Whether each individual episode is a separately entity (like, with a distinct URI or whatever) within that format, I don't know.

It's not that trivial to do as an end-user. If I listen to a podcast on Spotify which I'd like to share with you (who doesn't use Spotify), I would have to Google that podcast and try to find a RSS-Link for it, which becomes more and more difficult as most pages now link directly to Spotify or Apple and provide no RSS-url. Ideal would be an URI like podcast:// which apps could simply register for on OS-level, but I f…

> Ideal would be an URI like podcast://

No, that would be far from ideal, for the same reason that the feed[1] URI scheme was flawed (cooked up by very confused people) from the beginning. And among other things, a podcast:// URI would now mean I can't open the thing in my browser unless my browser vendor adds support and I download the new version.

The file is served over HTTP(S). Just use the http or https URI. Podcast players need to do their part[2] in dealing with them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_URI_scheme>

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691360>

Re: Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

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Post by matthewfelgate »

delecti wrote: post #51
matthewfelgate wrote: post #23

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YouTube.com/podcasts doesn't even fucking work outside the USA.

Yeah, because them adding podcast functionality is going to happen in the future. They haven't done it yet, that's what that means.

If you believe that I have some magic beans to sell you.
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