For the big products, I think Google Assistant will be next followed by barely doing anything further with Android Auto until it dies a few years after GAS starts getting pushed out while it probably either won’t or will stop supporting ‘legacy’ Android Auto apps, so AA dies ‘because developers aren’t supporting apps anymore – totally not our fault and we’re sorry to see this happen.’
Fine. I finally installed f-droid, because while I don’t listen to a lot of podcasts, I am trying to listen to more, and YT Music is ass for finding new podcasts.
Please give me recommendations for more podcasts that may like based on what I got
Based on Behind The Bastards, check out Knowledge Fight. Dan and Jordan have co-hosted on BtB. They track Alex Jones and Infowars. They’re funny and delightful.
Based on Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me, check out The Unbelievable Truth. Hosted by David Mitchell on BBC Radio 4. Very funny celebrity panel show where they tell outrageous lies about a particular topic, but try to snuggle truths undetected past their opponents. Very funny, and there’s years of back catalog to listen to, if you’re so inclined.
Thank you, subscribed to most, they seem right up my alley.
I was apprehensive about the first two because they sound (from their titles) like the type of conservative conspiracy theory my FIL talks about. He was talking to my BIL (FIL’s stepdaughters husband) about the collapse, and where to go yesterday. He decided Mexico since “they’re only doing all that shit in the industrialized countries” , and I couldn’t help but silently laugh that a.) he thinks Mexico isn’t an industrialized country, and b.) he would illegally immigrate there to avoid politicized chaos.
No problem! I get that about the first two, but they’re really interesting. Of course It Could Happen Here is fiction, but his stories / predictions ended up having quite a few eerie synchronicities to what happened in the years following its release in 2019. Breaking down collapse is much more analytical and heady than conspiratorial. They talk about stuff like why monocultures crops are bad, the decline in insect population, or like how complicated and poorly understood the financial system is and how that sets us up for instability. Their followup podcast is called Building Up: Resilience. I haven’t started it yet, though
Parents man… The other day my dad told me he wanted to watch some new movie because, and this is literally what he said, “it looks violent.” I didn’t know how to respond. Like, I consume media that has violence in it, but as an adult I’d never watch or play something solely for the fact that some dude beats the shit out of people in it? It’s sad.
I don’t know about that with Jim Jeffries is one of my go tos. They see how much Jim knows about a given subject and have an expert in the field listening and grading. It’s funny z and I’ve learned a lot from it too.
Hi. I listen to half the podcasts on this list. My favorite podcast is oh no! Ross and Carrie they don’t just report on fringe science, spirituality, and claims of the paranormal, but take part themselves. For example, they did a whole series where they joined scientology. They took part in experiments with flatearthers. They go to psychics and then talk about their cold reading techniches etc It’s very funny and they are very nice they don’t go and try to debunk or whatever. They go with genuine curiosity and skepticism. They are on maximum fun which was recently turned into a co-op, I think that’s pretty cool. Other shows I enjoy from max fun are Sawbones, it’s about medical history and judge John Hodgman which is more wholesome fun. Another skeptical podcast I enjoy is Skeptoid, it’s from another network, and has very short episodes every week. Adam Conover’s Factually is also funny and educational
You can set et to skip X seconds in the beginning and Y seconds at the end of each podcast individually.
Maybe one day we will get Sponsor block integration for crowd sourced ad skipping , or AI using the crowd sourced skip points as a guide to fine-tune skipping on device , ( everyone tends to get different length advertisements , depending on targetting or region )
I’m more inclined to not be annoyed too much by ads on podcasts where you know it’s just some guy or gal getting compensated for the work they are putting into their podcast. That said, maybe I’m getting way fewer ads on Antennapod because of said adblocking, not sure.
I will say, it has a bug where it will not work in a work profile. You can install it but it won’t playback. Which is annoying. But for me it is a small complaint.
Friendly reminder that YouTube Music laid off an entire team of 43 unionized workers the very moment two of them went before the Austin City Council to ask them to help pressure Google execs to come to the bargaining table to provide them with fair pay and benefits.
Podcast Addict is THE feature rich podcast client. A boatload of features and if it doesn’t do what you need you request it in the support site.
It has its issues: closed source (if that matters to you), I’ve read that there are trackers, and ads, but it’s still the best podcast app out there, hands down.
I switch from Google to PA with the first email like this that I got from Google.
I tried maybe 4 alternatives and ended up sticking with PA. I don’t really like it…it’s most used icons are small and hard to reach, navigation is very unintuitive to me…but basically it sucked less than the other options.
You self hosters are worse than crossfitters and mountaineers, always stretching to find ways to slip it into conversations. Quit making me feel feelings about how I’m not hosting my own cloud services and just using whatever Google shit exists.
Pocket Cast is still decent. But they increased the sub prices a lot recently. I was still on an old plan, so I don’t know what I’ll do when it expires. What bugs me more is podcast releasing exclusively on certain platforms. Congratulations, you just reinvented radio
I’m grandfathered in to when their premium was a one-time payment, but I’m trying out AntennaPod again as I’d like to stick with open source solutions. I haven’t used AntennaPod since 2.4.x and I moved back to Pocket Cast because AntennaPod was giving me a weird issue where the app would occasionally lose audio focus when I paused. I’m hoping I don’t run into that issue again, because, other than that, it was every bit as good as Pocket Casts, probably better.
I love being able to arrange by tags, rather than folders.
Good app but they got bought and immediately upped their price by a lot from what I recall. It’s why I moved on. I think it was a more than 3x price hike in the US and as much as 5x elsewhere.
Shame because their desktop option is tied to that subscription. I couldn’t justify paying that much just to swap phone/desktop.
I still use them since i got grandfathered into the pro plan (or whatever its called) without having to pay for a subscription. Not sure if i would pay for it now if i had to.
However, still a really good service for the cost to sync podcasts across lots of devices for anyone who listens to a lot.
I’m glad they open sourced it, but I’m waiting for an F-Droid release. It seems like they’re struggling with this, it took them months and still nothing happened
You got me excited at first, but this is NOT “just like” Google podcasts. This looks like a fork of antennapod, which is fine, but not just like Google podcasts.
Will be killed 3 years from now, Google Euthanasia will have been a service to order remote drone assassins for instant palliative relief. Closed due to privacy laws in the EU.
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Try AntennaPod, it’s on F-Droid
Grabbed AntennaPod from the Play Store. It’s been a perfect replacement.
One of the best apps on any platform
For the big products, I think Google Assistant will be next followed by barely doing anything further with Android Auto until it dies a few years after GAS starts getting pushed out while it probably either won’t or will stop supporting ‘legacy’ Android Auto apps, so AA dies ‘because developers aren’t supporting apps anymore – totally not our fault and we’re sorry to see this happen.’
One of my favorite podcast app.
I’m kind of into Podscast Addict. Not sure how it compares, but its pretty good.
It’s not open source
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Ah ok
Antennapod?
Fine. I finally installed f-droid, because while I don’t listen to a lot of podcasts, I am trying to listen to more, and YT Music is ass for finding new podcasts.
Please give me recommendations for more podcasts that may like based on what I got
Darknet Diaries
No Such Thing as a Fish seems like a natural extension for you. It’s a podcast run by the team who writes for QI. It’s funny and informative.
Oh man I used to love watching QI. Forgot all about that show (I’m in the colonies. The one that tossed out all that tea).
TrashFuture is great if you want to be amused/depressed by tech journalist news.
Lions Led By Donkeys is a great war history podcast series.
Neither have ads, which I really value in any podcast. Probably the only reason I don’t subscribe to BtB.
Check out Darknet Diaries. High production, in-depth stories on hacking and cyber security. Good for tech-heads and non-tech-heads
Based on Behind The Bastards, check out Knowledge Fight. Dan and Jordan have co-hosted on BtB. They track Alex Jones and Infowars. They’re funny and delightful.
Based on Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me, check out The Unbelievable Truth. Hosted by David Mitchell on BBC Radio 4. Very funny celebrity panel show where they tell outrageous lies about a particular topic, but try to snuggle truths undetected past their opponents. Very funny, and there’s years of back catalog to listen to, if you’re so inclined.
“smuggle” not "snuggle "
Thank you, subscribed to most, they seem right up my alley.
I was apprehensive about the first two because they sound (from their titles) like the type of conservative conspiracy theory my FIL talks about. He was talking to my BIL (FIL’s stepdaughters husband) about the collapse, and where to go yesterday. He decided Mexico since “they’re only doing all that shit in the industrialized countries” , and I couldn’t help but silently laugh that a.) he thinks Mexico isn’t an industrialized country, and b.) he would illegally immigrate there to avoid politicized chaos.
No problem! I get that about the first two, but they’re really interesting. Of course It Could Happen Here is fiction, but his stories / predictions ended up having quite a few eerie synchronicities to what happened in the years following its release in 2019. Breaking down collapse is much more analytical and heady than conspiratorial. They talk about stuff like why monocultures crops are bad, the decline in insect population, or like how complicated and poorly understood the financial system is and how that sets us up for instability. Their followup podcast is called Building Up: Resilience. I haven’t started it yet, though
Parents man… The other day my dad told me he wanted to watch some new movie because, and this is literally what he said, “it looks violent.” I didn’t know how to respond. Like, I consume media that has violence in it, but as an adult I’d never watch or play something solely for the fact that some dude beats the shit out of people in it? It’s sad.
Our lists are very similar! I also enjoy “stuff the British stole” and “cautionary tales with Jim Hartford”
I don’t know about that with Jim Jeffries is one of my go tos. They see how much Jim knows about a given subject and have an expert in the field listening and grading. It’s funny z and I’ve learned a lot from it too.
Hi. I listen to half the podcasts on this list. My favorite podcast is oh no! Ross and Carrie they don’t just report on fringe science, spirituality, and claims of the paranormal, but take part themselves. For example, they did a whole series where they joined scientology. They took part in experiments with flatearthers. They go to psychics and then talk about their cold reading techniches etc It’s very funny and they are very nice they don’t go and try to debunk or whatever. They go with genuine curiosity and skepticism. They are on maximum fun which was recently turned into a co-op, I think that’s pretty cool. Other shows I enjoy from max fun are Sawbones, it’s about medical history and judge John Hodgman which is more wholesome fun. Another skeptical podcast I enjoy is Skeptoid, it’s from another network, and has very short episodes every week. Adam Conover’s Factually is also funny and educational
“Search Engine” is essentially the replacement for Reply All, but with just PJ Vogt. It’s really good.
Switched to Antennapod when abandoning Spotify recently. It’s been great! Way better interface than Spotify’s embarrassingly horrible UI.
Been on it for a few years now. It’s great.
The only other one I’d really recommend is Podcast Addict. I only switched to Antennapod because it has a little less busy UI.
That or Podcast Republic.
Another vote for Antennapod.
Now that it has **rudimentary Ad-Skipping **
You can set et to skip X seconds in the beginning and Y seconds at the end of each podcast individually.
Maybe one day we will get Sponsor block integration for crowd sourced ad skipping , or AI using the crowd sourced skip points as a guide to fine-tune skipping on device , ( everyone tends to get different length advertisements , depending on targetting or region )
I’m more inclined to not be annoyed too much by ads on podcasts where you know it’s just some guy or gal getting compensated for the work they are putting into their podcast. That said, maybe I’m getting way fewer ads on Antennapod because of said adblocking, not sure.
I will say, it has a bug where it will not work in a work profile. You can install it but it won’t playback. Which is annoying. But for me it is a small complaint.
Love it!
Friendly reminder that YouTube music STILL doesn’t have the ability to sort songs in a playlist alphabetically
Friendly reminder that YouTube Music laid off an entire team of 43 unionized workers the very moment two of them went before the Austin City Council to ask them to help pressure Google execs to come to the bargaining table to provide them with fair pay and benefits.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://fortune.com/2024/03/09/youtube-music-google-unionized-workers-terminated-contract-austin-outsourcing-india
I use Audiobookshelf for audiobooks, but apparently it supports Podcasts too. I haven’t tried that feature yet.
It’s a self-hosted system that you run on your own server.
This is exactly why I never started using this app. Not worth investing my time. Still on Pocket Casts for years
I hope they soon figure out their F-Droid release, it’s taken them months already
https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/424
I thought pocket casts was proprietary.
They went open source on Github after they were acquired by Automattic.
TIL. I’ve used the app for 30 months, and somehow never found out about that.
They open sourced it in 2022:
https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android
https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-ios
Podcast Addict is THE feature rich podcast client. A boatload of features and if it doesn’t do what you need you request it in the support site.
It has its issues: closed source (if that matters to you), I’ve read that there are trackers, and ads, but it’s still the best podcast app out there, hands down.
I switch from Google to PA with the first email like this that I got from Google.
I tried maybe 4 alternatives and ended up sticking with PA. I don’t really like it…it’s most used icons are small and hard to reach, navigation is very unintuitive to me…but basically it sucked less than the other options.
I wish it was open source and not filled with trackers
As long as that’s the case, I’ll definitely continue using AntennaPod
Good thing I never started using it! Fuck you Google, Reader, Inbox and Music taught me never to get into your shit again.
Raising a glass To Inbox, we hardly knew ye
I selfhost audiobookshelf for all my podcast needs.
I use it for audiobooks already, does it do podcasts well? As in, do I need to download the podcasts somehow and put it in like an audiobook?
It does podcasts perfectly. Select podcasts as your library and then add in the podcast URLs
Nice! I shall give that a try later on
Yea it’s really amazing
You self hosters are worse than crossfitters and mountaineers, always stretching to find ways to slip it into conversations. Quit making me feel feelings about how I’m not hosting my own cloud services and just using whatever Google shit exists.
Sorry if I made you feel that way.
This was a joke but apparently nobody was amused.
I thought it was funny. I miss it.
In that case I have no choice but to restore the post by popular demand.
I regret that I have but one upvote to give
Do I seem like I can see your face whike you are making this post and realize it’s a joke?
Used to use pocket cast instead of this, its great
Pocket Cast is still decent. But they increased the sub prices a lot recently. I was still on an old plan, so I don’t know what I’ll do when it expires. What bugs me more is podcast releasing exclusively on certain platforms. Congratulations, you just reinvented radio
I memba when a podcast was an mp3 scraped from an rss feed. Enshitification catches all in the end. 😞
I’m grandfathered in to when their premium was a one-time payment, but I’m trying out AntennaPod again as I’d like to stick with open source solutions. I haven’t used AntennaPod since 2.4.x and I moved back to Pocket Cast because AntennaPod was giving me a weird issue where the app would occasionally lose audio focus when I paused. I’m hoping I don’t run into that issue again, because, other than that, it was every bit as good as Pocket Casts, probably better.
I love being able to arrange by tags, rather than folders.
PocketCasts is good.
Good app but they got bought and immediately upped their price by a lot from what I recall. It’s why I moved on. I think it was a more than 3x price hike in the US and as much as 5x elsewhere.
Shame because their desktop option is tied to that subscription. I couldn’t justify paying that much just to swap phone/desktop.
I still use them since i got grandfathered into the pro plan (or whatever its called) without having to pay for a subscription. Not sure if i would pay for it now if i had to.
However, still a really good service for the cost to sync podcasts across lots of devices for anyone who listens to a lot.
Ah, the free plan meets my needs so I didn’t notice the price increase.
I’m glad they open sourced it, but I’m waiting for an F-Droid release. It seems like they’re struggling with this, it took them months and still nothing happened
https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/424
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues/2236
Trying to find my podcasts in YouTube Music’s Android Auto app took around 8 button presses. Google Podcasts took 0.
I switched to Spotify for podcasts and it still takes 3 or so, but good enough for now.
I went to podcini on f-droid. No ads. Works just like Google podcasts. Even has the play speed thing which I really like.
You got me excited at first, but this is NOT “just like” Google podcasts. This looks like a fork of antennapod, which is fine, but not just like Google podcasts.
Thanks for the info! Just downloaded it and living it already.
It’s a fork of AntennaPod, right?
google should launch an euthanasia clinic
Tombstone 2025-2027 Google Euthanasia
Will be killed 3 years from now, Google Euthanasia will have been a service to order remote drone assassins for instant palliative relief. Closed due to privacy laws in the EU.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=youth+in+asia
I still miss Google reader
You might enjoy feedly