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What do you use for listening to podcasts? (feddit.online)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use Funkwhale for my music collection and had my podcasts in there for a while. However, I ended up not listening to my podcasts very much since they were hidden among my much larger music collection.

So I moved my podcasts feeds to FreshRSS, which I was already using for RSS feeds. I like the simplicity of using something that I already had, but it doesn't have any podcast-specific features like being able to resume where you left off.

Do you have any podcast listening apps that you like?

*edit: I should add that I originally meant "self-hostable applications for storing your podcast subscriptions," but these phone app recommendations are great to have, too. I might just ditch the server-side of this entirely and just use a separate app on my devices for listening. It would be nice if I only had to subscribe in one place and be able to pick up where I left off across multiple devices, though.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What I'd like to know: For anyone using some app other than AntennaPod: Why? How is it worth it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Never heard of antennapod before I've just stuck with pocketcast since day one, what makes antennapod special?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The ui is clean and intuitive and it actually handles podcasts with multiple feeds (patron/free) well (other apps I've used were quite annoying with that). Being able to tag all your podcasts is also really nice for organization, especially if you have a lot of podcasts that you aren't listening to every episode of. My only complaint was that the default settings are to download a podcast when you click on it instead if stream, but that is easily changed with one setting switch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I can't say I've thought about how paid versions of a podcast would work on pocketcast

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I've never used Antenna Pod, but I've used Podcast Addict for more than a decade, I've paid for the pro app, and I've been really impressed by what it can do.

I like to have many podcasts downloaded to my phone, and Podcast addict has really granular controls for what to download and keep for how long, in the general case, and for each podcast you can dial in custom settings, for example not auto-downloading or deleting. It helps me have plenty of audio to listen to at all times without blowing up the storage on my phone.

The various automatic playlists for downloaded episodes, new episodes, and recent episodes are also very useful to me.

I've found the developer to be really nice and he will personally respond to bug reports and support requests if anything doesn't go as planned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The settings are way too complicated and defaults are not intuitive. Took me forever to figure out how to purge old downloads I hadn't listened to. Constant errors when trying to download. Does not want to play video podcasts as audio-only.