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Nothing beats just downloading a podcast and listening to it in VLC or you audio player of choice - I don't really understand why podcast apps are needed.
But that said, if you need to use one AntennaPod has all the features and you can even get it on F-Droid.
A nice interface to search for shows, automatically download new episodes, listening history, options to trim silence, sync between multiple devices.
Nobody needs them, but of course people want them.
Since a lot of people have recommended antennapod: does anyone of you also have that weird problem where podcasts randomly skip backwards from anywhere as little as five seconds to a minute during normal playback?
I have this too on occasion! Although, I think I had this problem on another podcast player before I switched.
Antennapod is good
Podverse is a solid choice. It’s also cross-platform if that matters to you. Antenna-pod is another good choice.
+1 for Podverse
If you self host nextcloud, another option is to put the rss feeds for your favorite podcasts into the news app. I listen to all of my podcasts through that.
However... I'd totally be interested in a better self hosted podcast app that allows me to see a record of everything I've listened to, while also allowing me to download the episodes to my phone, lol. That's the only reason I'm stuck on the news app still.
Maybe the gpoddersync-nextcloud app is more your thing? You can use that with all podcastapps that support gpodder sync. Works with Antennapod on Android and Kasts on KDE/Kubuntu.
93 nominations for the same thing, means I'm probably the wrong answer but I don't Graphene, but I was degoogling and found PlayerFM listed among good Free Open Source Software FOSS options. Hope it works as Graphene option.
I don't use graphene (yet?) but Player FM is pretty good. I had their paid plan for years. I'm on PocketCasts now.
AntennaPod is great and Audiobookshelf is my preferred app, if you're into self hosting services.
AntennaPod.
Just search fdroid
I use PocketCasts but all of the responses here are making me consider trying out AntennaPod.
I was a pocketcast user for years, switched to antennapod a few months ago. Here's what's bothering me:
There are also things that antennapod does better:
Best of luck from another pod-nerd.
I’ve been spoilt by having a server doing the heavy lifting of refreshing my podcasts. It’s a minor annoyance that I need to wait approx. 1.5 second per feed to refresh. It’s just the way it is.
In the podcast settings for each podcast, does "Keep Updated" not handle this for you? I don't think I ever manually refresh my podcasts. Apologies if I'm misunderstanding.
Antennapod has a weird separation between new episodes (inbox) and what you’re listening to now (queue). PC has that abstracted away where you only have to check one place for your podcasts.
I don't like the queue myself, though possibly for different reasons than you. Again possibly misunderstanding your concern, but I have "Enqueue Downloaded" and "Continuous Playback" both disabled in the Antennapod settings, and I just pretend the queue doesn't exist.
Just throwing those things out there in the hopes they may help.
I use pocket casts and I tried switching to antenna pod because of a thread like this one and came right back to pocket casts. The deal breaker for me was no skip forward 30 seconds (e.g. ads) from the lock screen.
I did the same. I haven't switched back yet, but I'm very close. Audio doesn't continue playback when connecting to Android Auto, the screen shows suggestions instead of the queue, and silence trimming is all-or-nothing. Also, and this is just personal preference, the UI isn't as intuitive.
For you or others who are curious and want to do this:
AntennaPod settings > User Interface > Set playback buttons.
You can decide what shows up in your notification on your lock screen.
Also make sure to toggle Persistent Playback Controls on.
Same
I use AntennaPod on my phone and Castero (TUI) on my computer.
Antenna Pod is great. Podverse is also pretty decent, especially for downloading as an .mp3
I've been trying podverse, but for some reason it uses Google Admob. So if he's trying to degoogle it's not a viable alternative
Is this accurate? Last I recall, the F-droid version was free of any of Google’s tracking?
Daaammn, good to know, thanks
Antennapod hands down.
Works great and have been using it for years.
Good job, you're making a good choice! I'm on a Pixel 6 running GrapheneOS, love it. Takes a bit if TLC at the beginning, but it's really nice and functional for me now.
For podcasts, I use Podverse. Works well for me, and runs well on GrapheneOS.
Antennapod is really great, but I found that it's more complicated than I like. So I found another player called escape pod on fdroid that I really, really enjoy because of its KISS approach.
Edit: Oh, and congratulations. I have been degoogled entirely for about 2 years now and mostly degoogled for about 3 years before that.
AntennaPod is pretty great. They even have an article on migrating from Google: https://antennapod.org/blog/2023/11/google-podcasts-migration
It is paid?
Just downloaded it, loads of features, free and doesn't have a premium option.
I was using Pocket Casts which locks few features behind a paywall and pushes it. I don't really like having things in the UI that are locked by a paywall, it's fine if the app has more features and an option somewhere to pay for them but don't clutter my general day to day use with advertising.
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Have you heard of Escape Pod? It is really simple. And I enjoy it because of its simplicity. Its on fdroid.
Escapepod is the best.