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Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

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Re: Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

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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.

> One is that there is not a simple way to add an episode to the queue.

AntennaPod does have swipe actions which allow you to add to queue, you might wanna try that out.

> On Android Auto, when it starts streaming the next item in the queue, … I wish it always stays on Now Playing screen.

That makes sense. Maybe bring this up on GitHub or the forum?

Re: Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

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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.

I stand corrected! I installed the latest AntennaPod build from f-droid in order to give specific examples but had no idea that AntennaPod had gotten so much better. The last contact I had with it was an indescribably miserable experience

Re: Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure

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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 th…

You're right, this feature hasn't been released yet. See https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/2648 if you want to follow the work in progress.
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