Comment on Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music

• radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Podcasts does, Youtube doesn’t unless you pay for premium. After the migration, if that policy doesn’t change, google’s platform of the week will be useless for podcasts.

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    YouTube Music is a different app altogether, on mobile devices at least.

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  • dept@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    YouTube music allows background playback

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• Matt@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google Podcasts does, but background play is a premium feature on YouTube Music.

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• treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Podcasts does but not YouTube unless you pay for a subscription

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• narwhalperson@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It used to. They paywalled it with YouTube premium.

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