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ipsum2 ◴[] No.23219562[source]
My favorite (and only) podcasting app. I hope someone who works at Google reads this and flag it internally.

This quote really sums up how ridiculous Google is being:

> What Google is asking of Podcast Addict would be comparable to Google asking a web browser app to remove references to all the websites and social media posts that reference the coronavirus unless the reference comes from an official government entity or public health organization.

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zouhair ◴[] No.23220888[source]
I have yet to find better then AntennaPod[0]

[0]: https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/

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1. mdaniel ◴[] No.23239532[source]
I'm glad it works for you. I actually tried to switch in an effort to "more FOSS" my life and ended up compiling a concrete list of usability problems that made using Antenna Pod frustrating for me. And that "usability" word has traditionally been the difference in my life between a commercial product and a FOSS one

* Podcast Addict offers auto skip intro seconds, auto skip outro seconds -- and the seconds setting is per podcast

* P.A. offers "stop after episode" if the sleep timer is active, and also allows not marking the episode as played if that "artificial stop" is active

* in Antenna Pod, "delete and remove from queue" does not clear it from the now playing bar

* the "auto download" appears to be opt-in, not opt-out, meaning one must set it for all 85 podcasts

* the bamboo menu doesn't include "delete" for an episode

* and a few more UI nits that bugged me

This isn't a rant, but rather an observation that the Podcast Addict developer wakes up every day thinking about how to make P.A. better, and that doesn't seem to be true for Antenna Pod