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Good news: you never needed Google Podcasts to begin with. Antenna Pod is a Free Open Source app that won’t track your every move and just works.
What an awesome app. Really, it’s unusual to see an open source app be so polished. Thanks for the recommendation.
I’ve been using it since I switched to Android about 10 years ago, and while it took some time to get the UX right, I really couldn’t recommend it more now.
Doesn’t just work for me. When I’m playing a podcast on Android auto, leave the car, come back, there’s no way to resume the podcast.
On every other app, there’s a little floating icon in the bottom right of the screen that you tap to get to the now playing, so you can resume, but antenna pod doesn’t have that.
I am sorry to hear that. I don’t personally use Android Auto, so that’s a situation I’m not familiar with. I am also sorry to see people downvoting your comment just because you report a bad experience, that doesn’t help anyone.
I would recommend opening an issue about it on the project page in GitHub. Another advantage of FOSS apps is that developers are usually easer to reach for feedback and support, although I must say I don’t have experience with the AntennaPod developers.
I never knew about this app, thanks for the recommendation!
Does it work with Android Auto voice commands?
Sorry, I don’t use Android Auto so I don’t know about this feature. You could check on their GitHub page and even open an issue if there is no support.
I love that one. And also PocketCast.
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024
Welp, another Google service that was too beautiful for this world.
Time to move my subscriptions to other podcatcher then. [taking a quick look at various migration options] Hmmm. What to write on Google Podcasts gravestone? “Here lies Google Podcasts. It never supported OPML.”
with listeners migrated to YouTube Music
Damn. I migrated my Google Play Music purchases to YouTube Music and to this day I have no idea where they actually went. If I hadn’t downloaded the local MP3 copies with the terrible joke of a client software they had, I’d have been screwed. Went back to just buying music on iTunes.
My migrated music from Google Play seems to be in the “Library” section of Youtube Music.
I ended up recovering some of my music using Google takeout which in turn absolutely wrecked most of the tags on my songs.
Nah, I’ll migrate to podbean or something else that allows me to listen with the app minimized.
InnerTune. No ads, no account. Minimize/do what you want.
Thanks! I’m installing it now.
Does Google Podcasts really not support that? Because that’s like… the basics.
It used to. They paywalled it with YouTube premium.
Google Podcasts does, but background play is a premium feature on YouTube Music.
Podcasts does but not YouTube unless you pay for a subscription
The current Podcasts app does, but Youtube doesn’t unless you pay for premium. After the migration, if that policy doesn’t change, google’s platform of the week will be useless for podcasts.
YouTube music allows background playback
YouTube Music is a different app altogether, on mobile devices at least.
YouTube Music allows the app to be minimized, AFAIK.
It’s standard YouTube (non-premiun) that requires the app to be in the foreground.
Its a but hacky, but if you disable the youtube app, install firefox and then its “video background player” addon, you can listen to youtube videos/music minimized without paying.
Share to - - > Newpipe Sponsorblock also works.
Is there sponsorblock on the phone?
Yes, on Android:
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Firefox/Fennec/fork of Firefox + Sponsorblock
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Newpipe Sponsorblock
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Youtube Revanced
Thanks for this, now I have sponsorblock on the phone and on the TV also, very cool!
No problem, the youtube experience without adblock and sponsorblock is bad. If you have AndroidTV, SmartTube is a thing.
I wonder why uBlock Origin blocks revanced:
Because it’s not the right webpage. The official page is revanced.app or you can directly go to the github.
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You can also use YouTube in desktop mode in Firefox
Or install YouTube revanced, and get rid if ads too.
You can use the YouTube music app with a standard (free) YouTube account, at least on iOS. But the audio only keeps playing in the background if you pay for YouTube music. And I think you can’t download music to play offline.
For what it’s worth, YouTube Premium ($14/ month) includes YouTube music and removes ads for YouTube.
Yt-dlp, Ublock Origin and Newpipe all cost $0 tho
Having YouTube premium means I can use it on any platform. I can use YouTube music on my phone with CarPlay and listen while driving, use the built-in YouTube app that hotel TVs have when I travel for work, watch things on my work computer, on my phone, or using my PS5.
Seems to vary depending on whether I’m attempting to listen to music on my device (“attempting to” is the right word as it takes 15 seconds to load each individual song as it goes through a playlist) or listen to a YouTube video. It can go further into the background if it’s music on my device, no further back than a big window drawn over the screen if it’s a podcastable video, and must be in the foreground for a video IIRC.
“what if we made it so everybody had to pay to turn off their screens even if there was no video or music!”
But… that didn’t and doesn’t apply to YouTube Music, only to YouTube, right?
It’s just as stupid as you fear. Music stops when you close your screen.
Great music player, Google.
Why is Google trying to follow the model of Spotify even though the model is not really successful? I hate when browsing my music in Spotify some podcast pops up. I just want to listen to my music, dammit!
Ah, fantastic, another fucking app to migrate because of a corporate decision. Wonder when this shit is going to become a weekly occurrence.
Once you stop giving those big corporations your data and money it will stop quite quickly.
Start using FOSS for everything you can and your life gets easier from this point of view, the software might get abandont, but you can still keep using it for years if you want to.
happy birthday Google, 25yo! LOL
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Another one for the pile
Killing google play music didn’t make me switch to youtube music, same here
Exactly. YT Music of such a trash interface compared to Google Play Music that I actually bothered to try Spotify when they killed GPM. They’re not accomplishing their goals here
Why are they forcing users to YouTube Music anyway? They could improve the product before killing all of their other services.
YouTube Music doesn’t even remember where you left off. Switch to your phone? Music queue is gone. Close the tab? Music queue is gone. Anything other than an algorithm curated playlist will make you have a shit experience on YouTube Music.
They could at least kept google play music for buying digital music
It’s my theory that all large media corps want to go back to owning and controlling all of the media that people see. Google especially, since they’re an advertising business at its core.
But… google podcasts was already owned by them. They aren’t gaining any users by doing this
God damnit…
Just use a good podcast app like Pocket Casts. It’s the king on iOS at least, so I assume it’s good on Android as well. I never understood why people keep using these shitty Google apps that always get abandoned.
I originally switched from Podcast Addict to Google Podcasts for seamless integration when listening to podcasts directly on Google Home devices. Hopefully this means better Google Home integration with popular third-party podcast apps, but it probably just means we’ll be forced to use YouTube Music instead. :-/
Mind you I love pocket casts but I always have had the need to install another podcast app such as Google podcasts, castbox or fountain to have a search that works beyond the show name at the level of episode names.
Sometimes I love listening to various podcasts about a topic or I’m just curious and use it like an user uses youtube search.
AntennaPod on Android. I use Pocket Casts but only because I’m on iOS, once I switch back to Android I’m going back to AntennaPod, it’s open source and imo easier to customise than any other podcast app and I went through a lot of them trying to find the one that doesn’t try to force it’s terrible ux on you
Yes! Although I had to stop using it because it (at least the F-Droid version) refused to work when I disabled Google services on the phone.
All podcast apps are broken, be it Pocket Casts, AntennaPod or the officials one from Apple/Google. I always discover on the go that an episode has been partially downloaded and even though I authorized the download over my data network, it doesn’t resume automatically.
The one thing I liked about Google podcasts was the parity between pc and android. Now I gotta find a similar podcast app to do the same
Pocket casts has a webapp that works pretty well.
Not sure if you need to pay for it though, I’m grandfathered in
Yeah unfortunately it’s a subscription service now. I’m gonna try castbox and hopefully that works out.
Everyone pretend podcasting isn’t boring.
Fortunately when they killed the podcasts out of Google Play Music I switched to Podcast Addict and never looked back.
I honestly feel bad for the guys assigned to work on this dead-end project.
And considering the buggy, infuriating mess that YTM is and that team is being rewarded with expanded scope, I wonder what dirt they have on Sundar.
Okay, it isn’t just me who find YTM buggy.
As a music player, could it please play music? Jesus.
I mean GPM was buggy too, but it was just unstable and slow. YTM just has boneheaded bugs. I’ve started running wearing a WearOS watch and it can’t even list more than 100 albums in my library, so I can’t download any albums alphabetically after Love Songs Drug Songs by the X Ambassadors.
I had a fun bug for awhile on GPM were playing my library on shuffle it would mostly play songs that started with P. A 30 minute car ride would have 3 songs that started with P and the other 5-6 would be more random.
Which bugs have you got?
Music would randomly stop playing. I can just continue it, no error or warning. Spotify doesn’t do that, nor does other background media players.
Also the fact that the ongoing notification always disappears. YouTube and all other media playing stay there forever. A minute after I’m done playing music, it’s like YTM was never there.
I have 4 people that use it on my account, it plays music just fine. Makes playlists, finds similar artist, View artist/album on long press, add to current list now or at the end, etc…
Actually has some interesting and unique features (like I can add stuff from youtube app or desktop even to a playlist and it will be in the playlist on TYM later on.)
What does it not do for you?
If I am on a 20 minutes drive I need the damn thing to keep playing music for 20 minutes, not just randomly stop playing halfway through a song. YTM does that. Spotify doesn’t. Nor does my other background players.
Huh, never had that one I dont think. I wonder what that is
My wife runs into this too but my phone never stops, it’s odd.
For starters, it won’t stop raping my data with video plays and downloads, even though I tell it not to do anything without wifi.
It also seems to ‘shuffle’ the same newest 40 songs or so, out of my 1000s of liked songs. Could never understand why, I just want random not algorithm random.
Ahhh, I literally never use the shuffle/random feature so I definitely dont know about that.
Overcast is superior to both. And I used to pay for YouTube Music…
Overcast is iPhone only? You were using Google podcasts on your iPhone?
My Google stuff predated my Apple usage. I’m Google-free now, though.
Stitcher seems to be the goto for Android.
Well damn
