[…] being able to say, "wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience.

What podcasting holds in the promise of its open format is the proof that an open web can still thrive and be relevant, that it can inspire new systems that are similarly open to take root and grow.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (9 children)

AntennaPod (OpenSource) and I subscribe to RSS feeds. How else would you do it? Spotify? That crap can't even reliably store where I paused last time.

[–] aulin 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Ooh. Nice! I hadn't heard of AntennaPod before. It seems to have everything that I use in Pocket Casts except for trim silence. I will try it out for a while and see if I miss that. I do use it and it saves a lot of time. Still though, OSS is a big draw.

Edit: It also doesn't open the queue or start playing automatically in Android Auto.

[–] aulin 1 points 9 months ago

Correcting myself here. AntennaPod does have silence trimming, but it's neither a player button nor in settings, but in a …-menu at the top of the player, which made it a bit hard to find (Same can be said about some settings in Pocket Casts.) and there's no graduation, so it's mad max only, from how it sounds.

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