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michael @lutz9/26/2023, 7:25 PM

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus9/26/2023, 4:22 PM

Podcasting silos...

Apparently another Google service is closing, as they do:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/google-podcasts-to-shut-down-in-2024-with-listeners-migrated-to-youtube-music/

I know this is just because YouTube is slowly absorbing anything multimedia from Google, and not an actual closing of a service; Google Music became YouTube Music before YouTube Music added a podcast service to replace Google Podcasts, but...

The amazing thing about podcasts is anyone can publish them anywhere, and anyone can listen to anything they want with a tool of their choice.

Don't ever use a service trying to centralize it! All the Big Tech Giants are offering their own podcasting services, because it's the last place RSS is still dominant and they fucking hate that. They'd like you to use their apps to manage podcasts, listen to unskippable commercials, collect and sell data on what you listen to.

(On the other hand, I think about how many people probably lost access to Joe Rogan because Spotify locked him inside their walled garden, and, you know...maybe it's not all bad.)

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Caoimhín @GamedevKevin9/26/2023, 5:39 PM

Nooo my podcast app :( :( Should have known it would be taken out behind the sheds, typical google

evie @ewie9/26/2023, 7:21 PM

at least pocket casts is still good!

Steve @SteveIsHere9/26/2023, 7:34 PM

I always hesitate to recommend pocketcasts since they switched to a subscription model I avoided by buying it before they did that. Do you know if the free version still worth recommending to folks?

evie @ewie9/26/2023, 8:09 PM

i have no idea. i’m an apple user and the podcast landscape over here is both different and a lot better (for example, the default podcasts app is both pretty good and also not getting axed), all i know is that everyone i’ve seen who uses pocketcasts absolutely raves about it, even on the apple side, so it’s gotta be doing something right

Steve @SteveIsHere9/26/2023, 10:34 PM

Oh totally, just as a piece of software it has been great. Thanks!!

noah @noahtheduke9/26/2023, 8:30 PM

I've never paid for the subscription, and it keeps working for me. I'd love to donate $5 but I'm not interested in subscriptions.

The subscription seems to be for people who use multiple phones? Cloud storage, desktop apps, and playing from your watch, and themes. I'm not sure how they could enshittify it (tho that doesn't preclude it happening).

Steve @SteveIsHere9/26/2023, 10:30 PM

Thank you! Good to know, I wasn't sure what the premium actually did just that I'd gotten grandfathered in hahaha

Remi Erin Autor the remeranAuthor @remeranAuthor9/26/2023, 7:10 PM

Ugh. It's always shit I use. I used Google Reader, and they got rid of it. I used Google Music and they got rid of it. I use Google Podcasts right now. Can't wait for them to get rid of their office suite.

Oh well, time to do my civic duty.
User reviews of Google Podcasts that rates it a 1 star and warns users not to download because it's going away in 2024.

I'm sure the youtube music podcast app will be ad infested.

Siërra R., "Botfly Mother "Inhaling The Sodium Vapors""@botflymother9/26/2023, 7:26 PM

podcastaddict is the best podcast app ive found on android, for anyone looking. been using it for years, nothing else comes close.

Dornath @Dornath9/26/2023, 9:56 PM

Cosigned. Podcastaddict is great.

Aaron Gable @asg9/26/2023, 11:20 PM

The only podcast app feature I want is "play all unlistened episodes of all podcasts I'm subscribed to, in publication order so they end up interleaved". Can podcastaddict do that? Every app I've found so far only has the extremes of "play just this one podcast continuously" and "manually manage your entire queue".

Siërra R., "Botfly Mother "Inhaling The Sodium Vapors""@botflymother9/27/2023, 12:14 AM

yeah. the automatic playlist feature is one i dont use but playing around with it rn its pretty powerful. i got it to do the thing you said by setting continuous play to on in the playlist settings then going to the recent episodes tab in the sidebar and playing the first one.

Aaron Gable @asg9/27/2023, 6:48 AM

Ok, I gave it a shot based on this, and wow! While I have a lot of nits to pick with the UI here, having "sort by publication date, increasing, alternating podcasts" is incredible.

Siërra R., "Botfly Mother "Inhaling The Sodium Vapors""@botflymother9/27/2023, 1:33 PM

hell yeah. it isnt the prettiest but it is the workingist

Gravity Pike @gravity-pike9/27/2023, 1:13 AM

PodcastAddict is, like, the one app on my phone that feels like it was designed to address its users needs. (Everything else feels like it's putting in the bare minimum effort needed to keep collecting & selling my data, pushing ads, or both.)

Siërra R., "Botfly Mother "Inhaling The Sodium Vapors""@botflymother9/27/2023, 1:35 AM

if you have a music collection, blackplayer is similar to podcastaddict but for music. its the best app on my phone. just one guy developing it and it does basically anything you could ever want it to do. well worth the 6 bucks or whatever for the paid version

Hewhoamareismyself @hewhoamareismyself9/26/2023, 10:29 PM

Podcastaddict is a great app seemingly supported by one person or by a group small enough to not be able to be owning content. Would nominate as cohost's podcast app of the year for 2019.

Keith @KeithJCarberry9/30/2023, 3:52 AM

i would be surprised if google was trying to spotifyify/de-rss podcasts with youtube music. i used to use google play music before it was migrated over to youtube music and was worried that the main feature i pay for (uploading my own music to a streamable/downloadable library) was going to go away. it didn't, thankfully, but 1 thing did happen: the rss searcher/aggregator got split out into google podcasts. i think they're just bringing that back into one app like how it was for years and years.

anyway i dont really want to be supporting google but youtube music is alright. for podcasts i use beyondpod, it's the only one i like even though it hasnt really been supported for years

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