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

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 139 points 1 year ago (25 children)

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

[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] phobiac@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

The dev is also very responsive if you reach out with any issues.

[–] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have used this for years now. It's really great. I have it set to skip the first 7 minutes of only certain podcasts because they usually have 7 - 8 minutes of ads. I also have it skip silences, which speeds up listening more than I first thought it would.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Podcast Addict is exactly the kind of app I wish were in vogue again. Rather than dropping features and hiding options in a race to be "streamlined", it's a properly designed piece of software in the classic sense: its a tool first and foremost. It prioritizes usability first, aesthetics second, and gives you all the buttons and levers to make it your own.

Like, it's the kind of app where if you're using it and think "eh I don't like this one thing", if you look in the settings, there's probably a way to turn it off. God damn what I wouldn't give for this to be common place design philosophy again.

Dev is really cool and responsive, too.

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[–] ndguardian@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve always been a fan of Pocket Casts personally.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have a lifetime membership with PocketCasts, but I don't know if I'd chose it today with the subscription. A few months ago, they shipped a buggy version and I temporarily switched to AntennaPod and was considering staying.

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

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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[–] atocci@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Also a big fan of AntennaPod, I switched to it back when Google first announced they were axing Podcasts and thought I'd have a lot less time to abandon ship than I ended up with.

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[–] alertsleeper@lemmy.world 134 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Google killing a product? No way

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[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago (4 children)

fuck it, do gmail next, force me to find a proper provider

who exactly thinks it's good that things are this ephemeral? what's the point of even using and enjoying and getting invested in something when they constantly pull this shit?

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Gmail is too valuable a source of advertising data

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[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another day another piece of Google tech tossed in the trash

[–] Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Google: Wanna see me create another great app and space then do no advertising and deep 6 it like, well whenever. wanna see it again?

they are like the bad version of valve with their IPs.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long until they shut down Search? It’s been dog shit for years.

[–] kworpy@lemm.ee 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

killedbygoogle.com

Tip: just don't use Google products

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[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every single thing I use gets changed, ruined, shut down, canceled, moved, merged. It never ends.

Wound up giving up and using Google podcast BECAUSE other ones I used kept getting shut down.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Pocket Casts has been reliable for me for years. I don't even use their pro features, but I pay anyway because it's so cheap. Highly recommended.

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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 year ago (11 children)

FFS Google's killing another app I use all the time

At this rate I half expect Google Play books to be dead before 2025

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

YouTube Podcasts coming to the YouTube Music app delivered to you by the Google Play game delivery app!

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[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (15 children)

That's why I never used it, because I knew it will happen. Better to use some other solution. I wish there was a third party option to google chromecast and all the home devices that works as well.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

10 Google: We’re so rich! Let’s make a product!

20 Google: kills product

30 goto 10

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[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never rely on Google apps.

The end.

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[–] clearleaf@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Another service that I didn't know google even offered until they announced it was dying. There are so many sources that podcast apps can pull from that we don't need half as many as we have.

[–] Goony@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I actually really enjoy it. It's my go to no frills podcast app that isn't paired with music or other extra stuff

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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use it, I like it and it works with zero issues. It also easily works with my Google Home speaker. So of course it gets shut down. Because obviously. Sigh.

That said, Pocket Casts on iOS is also quite decent.

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[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another one in the Google graveyard.

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They say it's crazy YouTube could end. I'm not so sure.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't think they have any qualms about shutting down YouTube but I think they're afraid of the backlash. It's such a unique treasure trove of cultural significance that is not out of the question for the US government to step in and tell them to put at least some of it in the Library of Congress or to work with other organizations to preserve it. And they'd rather let it run than be bothered.

I've heard a theory that says that Google isn't interested in any of their products for the product's sake. They're all data-gathering experiments. Once they're done mining that particular kind of data they shutter the project. If they ever need to revisit that category later, they make another similar product.

It would certainly explain why they shut down certain projects in the face of commercial success, or why they keep revisiting the messenger app over and over in different ways.

It would also explain their inept attempts at monetizing YouTube. Keeping an experiment alive past it's expiration date is unfamiliar to them so they have no idea what to do with it.

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[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] blackbarn@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AntennaPod is another great option. I've already switched after the initial announcement.

[–] as97531@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely love AntennaPod

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[–] Otkaz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Anyone have a suggestion for a alternative simple light weight podcast app for android?

Edit: I installed antennapod and it's exactly what I was looking for. Very light weight and even open source. Thank you for all the suggestions.

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Pocket casts. Also, you might be able to export your podcast subscriptions from Google Podcasts in opml format.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Antenna pod is great. I switched to it from google podcasts a couple months ago figuring this would happen.

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[–] Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They didn't market this very well. Literally the first time I'm hearing about this

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[–] titter@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Lol this is just google reader for your ears

[–] GhostTheToast@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google seems to be caught in an awful feedback loop. I feel like at this point, most tech savy people are weary to try new Google services for fear of liking them, but eventually getting shutdown. In turn causing those tech savy users to not recommend it to their friends/family that actually might cause it to grow.

Honestly don't know how they get out it without either losing tons of money on maybe side projects or happening across the one things that's so good it's impossible to not use. The latter seems more unlikely by the day

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[–] clara@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

google tries not to kill one of it's products challenge (impossible)

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As a Google Fi user, I really should be looking for something else.

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[–] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I learned with Google music never get involved with Google with something you'll want to use daily. Google music hands down was the absolute best music service I've ever used. Google is like a kid with ADHD bouncing around from project to project never to see them through.

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[–] corvid_of_the_night@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yet another Google product that goes into the grave.

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[–] yoz@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago

Lol they had podcast 😅

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