Any recommendations for android? I know there’s pocket casts but I’m not paying a subscription for a podcast app. All I need it to do is literally find the podcast then click play. I’m not really sure what there even is to innovate on for apps to charge you.
I like AntennaPod.
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If you only listen to podcasts on your phone, I can highly recommend AntennaPod. It is free and open source. I have been using it for around 6 months now since Pocket Casts increased from $10 to $40 per year.
Podcast Republic is my go to. I listen to 5 or 6 podcasts. But have 2 or 3 that are time relevant, like news. I set those as priority, and Podcast Republic makes an auto playlist that puts them all in order by my preference, then release date old to new.
If a preferred podcast comes out, it goes to the top of my auto playlist. I can’t podcast without it now.
Is it subscription now? I paid like $3 for it once ten years ago.
Yeah, I’m holding on to the lifetime grandfathered premium and don’t foresee myself using anything else until they end it.
It is free for most features, but the paid subscription is now $40 per year.
pocket cast is free to use, no?
Yeah. I don’t pay for pocket cast.
I used to use PodcastAddict, before my work replaced my perfectly functional Galaxy 10 with a used iPhone SE. Not sure that one exists anymore, but I loved it.
God damnit…
Dear Google.
YouTube Music is shit. Stop trying to combine your other services into YouTube music.
Google Play Music was good. Google Podcasts was… not awful
YouTube Music is the worst of both services.
Just stop
What is the complaint about YouTube music. I got it for free and it’s pretty good. Maybe not perfect but I don’t big beef about it.
As someone who loves Google Podcasts this sucks. Fuck YouTube Music and I miss my Google Music.
As a YouTube Music subscriber (because of yt premium): “stop trying to make YouTube music a thing. It’s not going to happen”.
I loved Google play music as a locker for my owned music and a a storefront to buy what I wanted. YouTube Music made me abandon it completely and move my owned music onto my plex server.
Why does Google have to ruin everything? Still bitter about Google Reader closing back in the day. That was the beginning of the end of me having confidence in their services and moving to self hosting as much as I can.
Google Music was the only place I bought music digitally other than iTunes, and I used it religiously. I downloaded all of my personal music uploaded to Google Music before it closed with the intention of running my own Plex server. A friend who works IT security scared me into not running an externally-accessible Plex server.
So I fight with the YouTube Music app being complete dogshit on CarPlay. If you think the app is bad on mobile, just try the CarPlay version. Unusable.
How did he scare you from running the plex server? Couldn’t you keep it loca only and use tailwind to access it from anywhere
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.
Today on: “What did Google decide to kill?”
This is why I’ll never get invested in Google again. I’m working on trying to move everything I can out.
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Yup same here. It’s also made me realise I don’t ever want to be tied into a platform anymore.
I’ve been moving cloud, passwords, email, accounts, podcasts, notes, news etc all to platforms or services that are either selfhosted or are easily exportable and can be backed up for access into another platform.
I think I’m the only person on the internet that likes YT Music.
I have YouTube Premium to remove ads on YouTube. It comes with YouTube music. I may have used it twice. I wish I could pay less to just get the ad removal. I have Apple Music for music.
May I ask why?
Personally, I find its UI/UX is annoying. The quality of the sound is awesome, though.
I think so, too 😀. I much preferred Google Play Music. I also hate that I now get music recommendations when I’m trying to watch TV.
That seems plausible.
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
Do they have a script that they must follow? Why every single time they need to kill a product BEFORE having a fucking replacement???
Why they couldn’t implement podcasts in yt music and then kill Google podcasts?
Why. Every. Single. Time. They need to kill a product BEFORE the replacement is ready???
I’m guessing right now every dev with a podcasting app on the play store is popping champagne from the huge influx of Google podcasts refugees
Uuuh, podcasts have been available in YouTube music for a while.
BeyondPod is paid but pretty decent.
Go for AntennaPod. FOSS and works great
AntennaPod is great.
Nice! Full support for recommendations in my language!
one suggestion: pocketcasts
Fuck! I liked Google podcasts due to the android auto integration! I am not willing to install yt music on my phone.
I’ve been using Podcast Republic for a while and it’s solid. Works great with AA.
Great dev too! I suggested a few improvements awhile back, and not only did he respond back, he had it implemented within the next update. And a one time payment instead of a subscription, which automatically makes this highly customizable app better than most of its peers.
To be honest I only tried it because it was on Play Pass but it’s been great.
I recommend Pocket Casts.
Thanks, seems nice 👍
There should be an xkcd for Google killing off stuff.
Unless there already is.
Or an Onion article that we can repeat post everyone this happens. Twice a year in most years. Google Domains.
You mean this? https://xkcd.com/1361
I didn’t know it existed, but it does and it’s perfect. thank you.
I can only recommend pocket casts! But I’m aware of the fact that they’ve moved to a subscription model since I purchased the app, and I can only give that recommendation based on my purchase which included full features for life (a deal which has thus far been honored). If the sub is worth is might be another question for someone who has it.
I started using Pocket Casts last year when it was $10 per year. This year they first raised it to $15 per year, and now it is $40 per year. That is too much in my opinion. I’ve had enough with services that nearly always get worse, so I am now using AntennaPod. It is a free open source Android app that doesn’t need accounts or subscriptions.
Ah. Yeah, that’s a bit pricier than it used to be. I do think their web version was worth the money, and I’d probably still subscribe for it if I didn’t buy the services outright back in the day. I’d say it would depend on how one uses it though. If it’s just used as an app, then I’d choose something else. The web service is golden though.
Back in the day I used to like AntennaPod, but I have had my pocket casts service for so long that I can’t say if anything is good these days.
I switched to Pocket Cast
& VLC player for music
Google Play Music users: “
First600th time?”-
Google employee 1: We made podcasts in Play Music better and adoption went up again.
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Google manager: Oh, that’s neat. I’ll make a bullet point on this week’s team meeting.
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Google employee 2: We spent many millions on a new podcast app and servers, engineering, data migration, PR, integrations
and adoption is lower. Actually, nobody wanted it or cares or likes it. -
Google VP: Everyone this can’t fail. Pick the best looking metrics, prepare a series of announcements and get ready for a wave of promotions and it’s all thanks to this superstar manager who’s definitely getting a huge bonus and double promotion so I can spin this like it was a win. The best part? Get ready for a repeat when we replace this again in 2 to 3 years.
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I’m totally on board them getting investigated for antitrust and monopolistic practices. Google has really turned to shit the last 4-5 years.
