I originally switched from Podcast Addict to Google Podcasts for seamless integration when listening to podcasts directly on Google Home devices. Hopefully this means better Google Home integration with popular third-party podcast apps, but it probably just means we’ll be forced to use YouTube Music instead. :-/
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Vub@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Just use a good podcast app like Pocket Casts. It’s the king on iOS at least, so I assume it’s good on Android as well. I never understood why people keep using these shitty Google apps that always get abandoned.
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Hindufury@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The one thing I liked about Google podcasts was the parity between pc and android. Now I gotta find a similar podcast app to do the same
bobtreehugger@awful.systems 9 months ago
Pocket casts has a webapp that works pretty well.
Not sure if you need to pay for it though, I’m grandfathered in
Hindufury@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah unfortunately it’s a subscription service now. I’m gonna try castbox and hopefully that works out.
sickpusy@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Mind you I love pocket casts but I always have had the need to install another podcast app such as Google podcasts, castbox or fountain to have a search that works beyond the show name at the level of episode names.
Sometimes I love listening to various podcasts about a topic or I’m just curious and use it like an user uses youtube search.
Zanshi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
AntennaPod on Android. I use Pocket Casts but only because I’m on iOS, once I switch back to Android I’m going back to AntennaPod, it’s open source and imo easier to customise than any other podcast app and I went through a lot of them trying to find the one that doesn’t try to force it’s terrible ux on you
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Yes! Although I had to stop using it because it (at least the F-Droid version) refused to work when I disabled Google services on the phone.
WuTang@lemmy.ninja 9 months ago
All podcast apps are broken, be it Pocket Casts, AntennaPod or the officials one from Apple/Google. I always discover on the go that an episode has been partially downloaded and even though I authorized the download over my data network, it doesn’t resume automatically.