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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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. :-/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pocket casts has a webapp that works pretty well.

Not sure if you need to pay for it though, I'm grandfathered in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah unfortunately it's a subscription service now. I'm gonna try castbox and hopefully that works out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.