this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2024
49 points (94.5% liked)

Technology

1381 readers
270 users here now

Which posts fit here?

Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.


Rules

1. English onlyTitle and associated content has to be in English.
2. Use original linkPost URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
3. Respectful communicationAll communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. InclusivityEveryone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacksAny kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangentsStay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may applyIf something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.


Companion communities

[email protected]
[email protected]


Icon attribution | Banner attribution

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Google is shutting down its Podcasts app in the U.S. in a matter of days. The company has begun warning the app's users they will need to migrate their

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

They pulled this same shit with Play Music. I lost years of music I'd bought with no recourse other than "use our shitty YouTube app, and if you want to listen without internet, then fuck you. (="

I don't care who they send or kill, I'm not fucking using YouTube music. I'll just do without, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

AntennaPod is nice and FOSS. I went there when Pocket Casts started to introduce more and more subscription features after they went free to install, and never looked back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I don't listen to podcasts often, so I'm still using Pocketcasts, but your comment may prompt me to switch. Thanks for the suggestion

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does 2 points 7 months ago

Yep, started like 2 weeks ago and its been good so far. The transition from google podcasts was only about 3 buttons to export then import it. Very simple.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Play music was shut down long enough ago that you may well have sorted something out, but in case you or anyone else reading hasn't, then you may well still be able to download your full music library.

Google takeout let's you download your library, unfortunately it just gives you a bunch of zip files filled with random unlabelled files. You can then use something like Picard to sort out all the file names and metadata. It's a bit of a faff, but it gets the job done.