Antennapod hands down.
Works great and have been using it for years.
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Antennapod is good
Agreed, grab AntennaPod from the f-droid store.
AntennaPod is pretty great. They even have an article on migrating from Google: https://antennapod.org/blog/2023/11/google-podcasts-migration
Have you heard of Escape Pod? It is really simple. And I enjoy it because of its simplicity. Its on fdroid.
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Antennapod on Android and Kasts on Linux, synced via Gpoddersync on Nextcloud.
Just recently switched from spotify to antenna pod and can recommend it so far, especially as a lover of any app that will give you stats/graphs.
Only small issue is when playing there are two options: stream, and download. It seems that unlike spotify, stream does not buffer at all, so if you lose connection the player immediately stops. For me I can resolve this by downloading the episodes before I leave for my commute, but something to be aware of.
AntennaPod has been working really well for me.
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AntennaPod is great and Audiobookshelf is my preferred app, if you're into self hosting services.
I use PocketCasts but all of the responses here are making me consider trying out AntennaPod.
I was a pocketcast user for years, switched to antennapod a few months ago. Here's what's bothering me:
- Antennapod has a weird separation between new episodes (inbox) and what you're listening to now (queue). PC has that abstracted away where you only have to check one place for your podcasts.
- There is no simple service to sync your subscriptions and listen progress. Gpoddersync is basically abandoned and the protocol lacks features. Hopefully this will change with openpodcastAPI, but they haven't managed to secure funding yet.
- I've been spoilt by having a server doing the heavy lifting of refreshing my podcasts. It's a minor annoyance that I need to wait approx. 1.5 second per feed to refresh. It's just the way it is.
There are also things that antennapod does better:
- chapters actually works in AP.
- episode pictures also works in AP, PC only showed the static image of the feed.
- search is just as good as PC.
- its FOSS and hopefully resistant to enshittification (unless all producers go into a closed ecosystem like Spotify tried with their recent purchases of pod-studios).
Best of luck from another pod-nerd.
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I use pocket casts and I tried switching to antenna pod because of a thread like this one and came right back to pocket casts. The deal breaker for me was no skip forward 30 seconds (e.g. ads) from the lock screen.
For you or others who are curious and want to do this:
AntennaPod settings > User Interface > Set playback buttons.
You can decide what shows up in your notification on your lock screen.
Also make sure to toggle Persistent Playback Controls on.
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Antenna Pod is great. Podverse is also pretty decent, especially for downloading as an .mp3
I've been trying podverse, but for some reason it uses Google Admob. So if he's trying to degoogle it's not a viable alternative
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I have Podcast Addict, I think its free but I paid a few dollars because of the great selection of settings and options I never knew I needed.
(For example I have it configured so that after 5pm the Sleeptimer automatically makes the podcast fade down and pausing after 10' of listening, unless I move/shake the phone during the fade down-part, then it extends for another 10'. Perfect for using it in public transport or in bed and dozing off.)
I also have been using podcast addict, probably for over 10 years now. You can autodownload new episodes (mine checks daily at 7a and 7p), create custom playlists for juggling multiple podcasts at once, has android auto support, and you don't have to deal with the bs of Spotify.
I'm sure there are a 100 other features I don't know about, but that's what I use.
I like the ability to adjust playback speed. I listen to everything at 1.1 and it just feels like everyone tightened up their delivery a little bit and took out dead air. There was one podcast where the subject was interesting but the delivery was agonizingly slow, so I turned it all the way up to 1.5.
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PodcastAddict is the way, but only if you're tolerant/patient with nerd knobs. I know a lot of people get turned off by those.
Not my wife
You lucky bastard. 😁
Shit I've been using PA forever too but I feel like I should try that other one everyone keeps posting about
AntennaPod.
Just search fdroid
Audiobookshelf! Self hosted and perfect for audiobooks and podcasts alike. And bonus: you ca archive all those hardcore histories before they get off the free stream.
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I use AntennaPod on my phone and Castero (TUI) on my computer.
Antennapod is really great, but I found that it's more complicated than I like. So I found another player called escape pod on fdroid that I really, really enjoy because of its KISS approach.
Edit: Oh, and congratulations. I have been degoogled entirely for about 2 years now and mostly degoogled for about 3 years before that.
Good job, you're making a good choice! I'm on a Pixel 6 running GrapheneOS, love it. Takes a bit if TLC at the beginning, but it's really nice and functional for me now.
For podcasts, I use Podverse. Works well for me, and runs well on GrapheneOS.
Podverse is a solid choice. It’s also cross-platform if that matters to you. Antenna-pod is another good choice.
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I recently switched from Google Podcasts to Podcini (fork of Antennapod) and it's great so far
Since a lot of people have recommended antennapod: does anyone of you also have that weird problem where podcasts randomly skip backwards from anywhere as little as five seconds to a minute during normal playback?
Yes! I thought it was just me. Any idea how to resolve?
Set playback speed to max. The podcast will now have less time to skip until it is over. taps head
Thanks for the lolz. I needed that.
I have this too on occasion! Although, I think I had this problem on another podcast player before I switched.
I love Player.fm
They have both an android app with a lot of good features (stream or download, can set how many episodes to download at a time, when to delete old ones, all per podcast and as global defaults, set up your own categories/lists, display order, play order, etc) and an actual web site where you can log in and listen to your stuff as well with synced history, so you can pick up pretty much at the exact spot you paused a podcast on your phone (or vice versa).
93 nominations for the same thing, means I'm probably the wrong answer but I don't Graphene, but I was degoogling and found PlayerFM listed among good Free Open Source Software FOSS options. Hope it works as Graphene option.
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