I don’t care for Family Guy either. But if you like slow, contemplative sci-fi, The Orville surprisingly delivers.
It feels more like Trek than anything from this decade.
I was pleasantly surprised by Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds is growing on me. The rest of New Trek really didn’t interest me.
Just watch The Orville instead.
Wow. With all the awful stuff happening over there I guess we’re lucky they didn’t just shelve it forever.
As someone who setup his own nas over the pandemic I really like this approach. Needed a time intensive project to stay sane and I keep finding more useful things it can do.
Another thought I’ve had, plex has a skip intro feature. This works by scanning the audio from multiple episodes and showing the skip button when available. Maybe something like that could build up an ad library of the most obnoxious repetitive podcast ads and work across different podcasts. It wouldn’t work for unique self reads though.
I wish I had the technical knowledge to build something like this but I done even know where to begin.
IHeartradio is the worst. I have dropped off listening to podcasts I otherwise really like. Behind the bastards, anything Robert Evans does really. The ads are too bad.
I do wish that was more common. I have no problem with Patreon to remove the ads.
I love the idea of using AI for for ad skipping. Let it do something positive instead of just our jobs in the near future.
To add to this, some podcasts on certain networks dynamically insert ads based on your location, any other data they have on you. so the ads may be different length for different users, further complicating this.
Definitely a difficult problem still looking for a solution. thanks for your input.
I do support a few to get ad free versions but these are almost nonexistent. very few podcasts do this.
What sealed the deal for me was skip intro. Incredible feature I don’t believe any other option has.
Wait for lifetime memberships to go on sale if you can. There are a few sales a year. Usually on Black Friday.