I’m happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there’s some other way to make it work. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.
i would start listening to podcasts again if something like this existed.
Podcasts are yet one more thing that ads have more or less ruined for me. I rarely listen to them due to the sponsorships. It is like trying to watch YouTube on my TV through the YouTube app instead of the Smarttube app.
Man I love that app so much it really leveled up my TV YouTube experience especially with sponsorblock built in
None that I’ve found has anything close to SponsorBlock for youtube, in theory it could work, even SponsorBlock has open issue for it.
The problem is, a lot of podcasts are using dynamic ads insertion, which means the ads are added on the fly when user download an episode. Ads length could be different from person to person, and there’s a possibility of empty slot too, where the podcast unable to sell the slot. “We’ll be back after this short message,” and jump straight into the next segment. No ad.
for dai, I suggest using ad blocking DNS like adguard. not perfect but it’s easy and painless.
I have noticed the Dynamic ads are audibly different in many ways. Like higher volume or has music added. I wonder if we could use that to auto detect the ads and skip it?
Idk everybody’s situation, but I just listen like this and manually skip ads. My car has buttons on the steering wheel for forward and backward (if I skip back into the podcast). My earbuds skip forward and backward with double presses on the right and left earbud respectively. Listening otherwise, it’s not that hard for me to grab my phone and skip through a few minutes of ads. Would it be better if it were automatic? Sure. But I’m much more annoyed by YouTube ads popping up every 3-7 minutes.
My ads only come on when it is the absolute worst situation to interact with my device.
Holding a basket of laundry???! Oh better play and ad.
Are your hands muddy from cleaning out a gutter? Better play an ad.
You handling raw chicken??? It is ad time!!!
Their are ways to avoid YouTube ads. YouTube is my favorite platform without ads.
Pushing buttons is too hard
I wish there was. I listen to this particular podcast that has the same sponsor for years and they do make it much more entertaining than the average podcast, but I still find myself manually skipping it every time I sense it coming. And because they make it more part of the conversation, the ad moment lasts for minutes each episode, so I’m sure every regular listener had enough of that.
Not quite what you’re looking for, but Overcast has Skip Intro and Skip Outro features. For each show, you can set an amount of time for the app to automatically skip over at the beginning and end of each episode. I find it super useful for some shows
Podcast Addict as well (also has skip silence)
I use podcast addicts’ auto slip feature. Most podcasts I listen to have a set ad of a set length at the start or end. You can set an auto slip on a per subscription basis. Works for me
I desperately want this as well.
I wish this existed. I figure it’s a matter of time before someone develops a ML solution.
I usually just try to hunt down bootleg feeds. I can usually find one, or a Patreon feed that someone has shared.
I used to use WeCast, it had a community driven block much like sponsorblock. But it was a long time ago, I couldn’t find it on Google Play so I don’t know if it’s still active.
Extremely interested in this as well, i might need to start learning android development now ;)
I use a cracked spotify app on my phone, and tend to manually skip through with the lock screen buttons.
