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FFS. How do I subscribe to Podcasts on an Android phone now?
Podcast Addict, been using it long before Google decided to try a podcast app.
Not so much killed as being rolled into YouTube Music
From an earlier article, if you're wondering the same as me: > Podcasts in YouTube Music will be available regardless of whether you have a YouTube Premium subscription.
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A fate worse than death. (Joke but I was a heavy Google Music user before it suffered the same fate).
That was an annoying and janky migration, but Youtube Music has a better interface than Google Play Music ever did. Though conceptually it's still just weird. A video that I like on youtube because of the video component isn't necessarily a song I want to listen to as music. Also it really needs the ability to block music from certain artists.
TIL Google had a podcasts app
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A fate worse than death. (Joke but I was a heavy Google Music user before it suffered the same fate).
I was a paid Google Music from way back. The best thing about the move to YouTube Music was opening up all kinds of independent tracks and mashups that weren't available in official music catalogs.
Artist and album descriptions are largely gone, and so is the ability to view your listen count of songs, or sort songs in your catalog by listen count (which was my favourite feature of GPM). I suspect they're doing this because they've changed their accounting to get away with paying artists less (the % completion rate to 'count' has changed, or perhaps they're not counting some listens altogether)
The one saving grace of YTM is that its predictive playlists are actually pretty decent, and there are a lot of them.
FFS. How do I subscribe to Podcasts on an Android phone now?
It's astonishing the strategy that Google follows with their products. This trend of releasing stuff and cancelling it later is reaching the point of being meme. Don't get me wrong, I totally understand that markets are hard to predict and compete in and offering a competent product at those sizes requires a lot of economic and human effort but for god sake, I seriously think they should plan better and think twice b…
Creating something new and half-baked is what promo packets are made of!
Ffs... I am a really good predictor for what Google is killing next. I just started using it because it was preinstalled on the pixel and I was lazy.
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From an earlier article, if you're wondering the same as me: > Podcasts in YouTube Music will be available regardless of whether you have a YouTube Premium subscription.
What I'm getting from this is that I will be hearing many more ads, and be unable to listen to podcasts if my screen is off or if I switch to any other apps on my phone.
> The company notes that all users can listen to podcasts on-demand, offline, in the background, and while casting
https://killedbygoogle.com/
Google Play Music (2011 - 2020)
Google Podcasts (2018 - 2024)