Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts : degoogle

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

Google doing Google things.

[+] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

AntennaPod (Easy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player) https://f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

edit: just now trying the app. Really awesome, better than the thing I'm currently using. Thanks for the suggestion!

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

Does this have advantages over Apple Podcasts?

[–] MiltownClowns 7 points 7 months ago

Open source, lots of features, self hosted sync. If you're happy in the apple ecosystem its probably not for you, their system works well. But if you aren't knee deep in apple already or just want complete control of your data its pretty dope.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Most, if not all podcasts are just an rss feed to a url. The application consumes that xml and delivers it to you as icons for you to listen to.

[–] Cort 4 points 7 months ago

Man I really miss the days when rss was popular. Then Google killed Google reader, as they do....

[–] Wildchandelure 5 points 7 months ago

This is like 5x better than google podcasts. Goddamn. It actually works in maps, isnt glitching, and i like the UI more. Awesome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you have to download them manually, or is at simple as giving it a link? Audiobookshelf has podcasts but I have to figure out how to manually download and organize them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use it daily. The only thing I miss is casting to other speakers around my home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Google Play version of AntennaPod has Cast enable, FDroid version didn't the last time I checked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh I didn't even check for a play store version, thanks for the heads up!

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

Oh for fuck sake. Everything I use of Google's that is half decent always ends up getting the chop.

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

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Now, a new support article details Google's plans to kill the product, with a shutdown coming in April 2024.

I think all the core podcast features exist somewhere, but they are buried in several menus.

There are more podcast-centric features sequestered away in YouTube Music, where a button with the very confusing label "Save to library" will subscribe to a podcast feed.

Music is a different interface, site, and app, so none of these billions of YouTube viewers are seeing these podcast features.

But this is the future of Google's podcast content, so the company is plowing ahead with it.

If you're looking to get off Google's wild ride and want something straightforward that works across platforms, I recommend Pocket Casts.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Another one bites the dust!

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