Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.

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    1 year ago

    For anyone getting this news here. On Android, one of the best replacements is AntennaPod.

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      1 year ago

      Podcast Addict is not quite as streamlined, but has many more features.

      My favorite feature is the “Automatic Rewind” combined with “Incremental rewind”. It adds a rewind everytime you pause and resume an episode that increases the longer the podcast has been paused. It means that if I briefly pause, for example to respond to. Some one in real life talking to me, then it will automatically rewind 5 seconds when I start the podcast again, so I can hear the sentence I was in the middle of in full. But if I leave a podcast alone for a week, then it will rewind 1 minute so I can get fully back into the context of what I was listening to.

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      1 year ago

      I love Pocket Casts. Sadly I have a hard time recommending it to new people since they switched to subscription model payment. The reason I love it is because of what it was, not what it is. I’m grandfathered into the "pay once, own forever"and if I wasn’t I would probably be using something else these days. I’m still gonna throw it in as a recommendation though, because it’s damn good and people should make up their own minds in whether it is worth the payment.

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        1 year ago

        I use the free tier and it is very good. Does everything I need. I won’t pay for a subscription for a podcast app, so it’s shame I can’t buy it to show my appreciation.

        In any case, the free tier is really good.

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          I pay $10/year for my podcast app (Overcast). Considering it does everything I want it to do that a lot of other apps don’t (or didn’t, years ago when I started with Overcast), and I use it 8+ hours a day it seems reasonable.

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        1 year ago

        I really like this app, not so much paying a subscription. But I wanted access on both my phone and my PC and that was the only way to get it.

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              1 year ago

              I have pocket casts set up the way I want it and, as I previously said, own the full featured product for life without extra costs. I just don’t see a reason to.

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                1 year ago

                That’s fine. I was just saying if you wanted to recommend any other options to your friends who ask you, Podcast Republic on Android is a solid choice to consider. That’s all.

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      1 year ago

      I’m a big fan of Podcast Republic. Great dev, feature-rich, and a much improved UI from when I first started using it.

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        1 year ago

        Podcast Republic is my choice as well. It’s the only Podcast app that I could find that let’s you choose your download folder. I like to play my podcasts with the same app I listen to books with, so I need to download the podcasts to a publicly accessible folder.

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      1 year ago

      I feel like podcasts and their apps is what TV and movies should be.

      Users pick the app they want to use. They optionally pay a fee or not. The app has any and all TV, Movies, music, etc. they want. In the back end, media rights holders have a pre-defined revenue split agreement.

      It’s like federated media.

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        1 year ago

        Completely fair, it it however worth mentioning that you can disable this data collection in settings.