Another one for the pile
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music
Submitted 1 year ago by Matt@lemdro.id to technology@lemmy.world
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FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Klystron@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Any recommendations for android? I know there’s pocket casts but I’m not posting a subscription for a podcast app. All I need it to do is literally find the podcast then click play, idk what there really even is to innovate on that for apps to charge you.
Matt@lemdro.id 1 year ago
If you only listen to podcasts on your phone, I can highly recommend AntennaPod. It is free and open source. I have been using it for around 6 months now since Pocket Casts increased from $10 to $40 per year.
toxicbubble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
pocket cast is free to use, no?
shortypig@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah. I don’t pay for pocket cast.
ratofkryll@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Is it subscription now? I paid like $3 for it once ten years ago.
Matt@lemdro.id 1 year ago
It is free for most features, but the paid subscription is now $40 per year.
stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 1 year ago
Yeah, I’m holding on to the lifetime grandfathered premium and don’t foresee myself using anything else until they end it.
Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 1 year ago
I like AntennaPod.
Physnrd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Podcast Republic is my go to. I listen to 5 or 6 podcasts. But have 2 or 3 that are time relevant, like news. I set those as priority, and Podcast Republic makes an auto playlist that puts them all in order by my preference, then release date old to new.
If a preferred podcast comes out, it goes to the top of my auto playlist. I can’t podcast without it now.
Nougat@kbin.social 1 year ago
I used to use PodcastAddict, before my work replaced my perfectly functional Galaxy 10 with a used iPhone SE. Not sure that one exists anymore, but I loved it.
I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 1 year ago
First I've heard of having to pay for Pocket Casts? Mine is still working without payments.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can only recommend pocket casts! But I’m aware of the fact that they’ve moved to a subscription model since I purchased the app, and I can only give that recommendation based on my purchase which included full features for life (a deal which has thus far been honored). If the sub is worth is might be another question for someone who has it.
Matt@lemdro.id 1 year ago
I started using Pocket Casts last year when it was $10 per year. This year they first raised it to $15 per year, and now it is $40 per year. That is too much in my opinion. I’ve had enough with services that nearly always get worse, so I am now using AntennaPod. It is a free open source Android app that doesn’t need accounts or subscriptions.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah. Yeah, that’s a bit pricier than it used to be. I do think their web version was worth the money, and I’d probably still subscribe for it if I didn’t buy the services outright back in the day.
iAmTheTot@kbin.social 1 year ago
I think I'm the only person on the internet that likes YT Music.
sik0fewl@kbin.social 1 year ago
I think so, too 😀. I much preferred Google Play Music. I also hate that I now get music recommendations when I'm trying to watch TV.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 year ago
That seems plausible.
h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev 1 year ago
May I ask why?
Personally, I find its UI/UX is annoying. The quality of the sound is awesome, though.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Ah, fantastic, another fucking app to migrate because of a corporate decision. Wonder when this shit is going to become a weekly occurrence.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 year ago
Once you stop giving those big corporations your data and money it will stop quite quickly.
Start using FOSS for everything you can and your life gets easier from this point of view, the software might get abandont, but you can still keep using it for years if you want to.
istoff@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There should be an xkcd for Google killing off stuff.
Unless there already is.
Or an Onion article that we can repeat post everyone this happens. Twice a year in most years. Google Domains.
StThicket@reddthat.com 1 year ago
You mean this? xkcd.com/1361
istoff@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I didn’t know it existed, but it does and it’s perfect. thank you.
brunofin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Well fuck here we go again. I can’t stand YouTube Music, and Spotify is not where I want to go for Podcasts.
Comeon Google stop pulling this kind of crap.
WuTang@lemmy.ninja 1 year ago
happy birthday Google, 25yo! LOL
bobman@unilem.org 1 year ago
Everyone pretend podcasting isn’t boring.
dirthawker0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Podcast is basic - I wish I could do a text search on episode descriptions - but the simplicity is a lot of what makes it good. YouTube is a mess of crap and I don’t like using it. I guess I’ll be looking for another app now.
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 year ago
God damnit…
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The company earlier this year announced YouTube Music would begin supporting podcasts in the U.S., which will expand globally by year-end, and more recently said it was adding the ability for podcasters to upload their RSS feeds to YouTube also by year-end.
The latter is something rival Spotify has also been working on with its rollout of video podcast support to creators worldwide last year along with community features like Q&As and polls.
These migration tools aren’t yet available but will be worked on in the coming weeks and months before being rolled out to all users.
“We know this transition will take time, but these efforts will allow us to build an amazing product and a single destination that rewards creators and artists and provides fans with the best Podcasts experience,” a YouTube blog post explained.
We’re committed to being transparent in communicating future changes with our users and podcasters and will have more to share about this process in the coming months,” it said.
The move will leave only Apple among the major players that hasn’t consolidated music and podcasts into a single destination, as Spotify, Amazon and Pandora all offer both types of audio in their flagship applications.
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AgnosticMammal@pawb.social 1 year ago
Okay, in the meantime, how do I export my subscriptions from Google Podcasts?
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Last I checked, Google does not have that feature. There’s an open-source project to extract them for you, though: github.com/…/google-podcasts-export-opml
I started hunting for a new podcast platform when Stitcher announced they were shutting down earlier this year, and I settled on Podurama. It’s the only one I can use on any platform, including desktop Linux (via the web version, which is actually quite good). I can subscribe to private feeds (e.g. from Patreon subscriptions), it syncs play history in my account, and it allows me to mark episodes played in bulk so manually porting over my listening history was not as big an ordeal as in other apps/platforms.
I’m using it for free, though they do offer a paid version with some very minimal additional features.
TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 1 year ago
How is it compared to Pocket Casts?
nicoweio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You might be able to grab them from takeout.google.com