Pocket Casts has been fantastic (using it since 2015). May only complaint remains that the maximum playback speed is limited to 3x. I guess Not too many people miss that.
Out of curiosity, which podcasts do you listen to at 4x or more?
Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source
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#32Yay. Maybe I can add a filter so I can skip specific episodes and clean up my new release page.
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#33I'd be happy if they also open sourced the web app so someone can finally implement their filter/playlist feature over there. It's the main reason I quit using the app a while ago. Being able to sync playlists is such a basic feature.
Is there a similar app that does this?
I've personally switched to Spotify. It honestly kind of sucks as a podcast app, but the sync, and also episode search and Echo support are at least there. I've heard Castbox is also supposed to be decent.
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#34This is amazing. I'm already a Plus subscriber and glad to see that I backed the right horse.
I switched to Pocket Casts from Overcast because of playback issues and lack of Chromecast support, and stayed for the very polished experience and cross platform support (there's even a desktop app now!).
Your podcast player of choice is like your gang colors, people get pretty passionate about it. In my case Pocket Casts is the one that works exactly the way I expect and gets out of the way.
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#35That's insane. I've been holding back from using Pocket Casts precisely because there FOSS alternatives like Antennapod and Podverse - but I wasn't that happy with them.
Props to Automattic for being an incredible force for good!
Edit: Wow 12$/year is a nice price for the Plus plan (vs. Podverse's 3/month, though that's not terrible either). They just got themselves a new subscriber. I'd skip the trial if I could. Take my money!
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I was a bit disappointed recently to discover that it doesn't offer a way to export data from it, which is pretty bad (i.e. your listening history and starred episodes, not your list of subscribed podcasts). Maybe overlooked? Settings -> Import & Export OPML. Can't recall if it includes listening history and starred episodes but subscriptions for sure. This is the case for Android -- can't speak for iOS.
OPML usually is just your list of subscriptions, OP specifically wanted everything else, I don’t know of any app that shares that unfortunately.
AntennaPod offers a database export (and import). While not ideal, it's better than nothing.
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#37That's a nice and unexpected bit of news for the day. I've been using Pocket Casts for awhile, it's indeed a very nice app, and other than the UI tumult from a few years back has been pretty reliable. I was a bit disappointed recently to discover that it doesn't offer a way to export data from it, which is pretty bad (i.e. your listening history and starred episodes, not your list of subscribed podcasts). Hopefully i…
Pocketcasts has an API with a history endpoint, which I scrape regularly: https://api.pocketcasts.com/user/history With the help of the web-player and the developer console I could copy the necessary auth-headers. I built a little deno project recently which scrapes my Spotify and PocketCasts history regularly and stores the history to a Supabase PostgreSQL database. So I have access to my own listening history: http…
Shouldn't you be able to get the data by requesting it via the GDPR (technically only EU, but most companies probably don't care).
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#38This is one of the few services I subscribe to (Pocket Casts Plus: https://pocketcasts.com/plus/ ). Happy to hear they're open source now!
Same here! It also feels "good" to support a good start-up which I use almost everyday
fyi - Pocket Casts is now part of Automatic, not neccesarily a start-up still
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#39Pocket Casts has been fantastic (using it since 2015). May only complaint remains that the maximum playback speed is limited to 3x. I guess Not too many people miss that.
At least it’s not stuck at just 2X like YouTube. I wish there was a universal playback speed control as a device setting.
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#40Is Pocket Cast the player that had a rather impressive silence removing feature, and is that part also now free software?
I can't remember which app I used before moving to the free software antennapod, though I remember that being the one feature I missed. Various free software apps now have a version of the feature, but they seem to remove all silence killing any kind of comedic timing.