Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.
For anyone getting this news here. On Android, one of the best replacements is AntennaPod.
Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts
Submitted 11 months ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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dustyData@lemmy.world 11 months ago
FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Podcast Addict is not quite as streamlined, but has many more features.
phobiac@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The dev is also very responsive if you reach out with any issues.
Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 11 months ago
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.
generic@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
Another vote for Podcast Addict. It works with Android Auto in my car :-)
Now to listen to all these shows I have downloaded…
sudoreboot@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
What you describe is also a feature of AntennaPod
ndguardian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve always been a fan of Pocket Casts personally.
n2burns@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
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.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
machinin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I use the free tier and it is very good. Does everything I need. I won’t pay for a subscription for a podcast app, so it’s shame I can’t buy it to show my appreciation.
In any case, the free tier is really good.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I don’t mind their subscription model. All the subscription features – cloud storage, folders, desktop app, extra themes – really feel like bonus features that aren’t essential.
lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I really like this app, not so much paying a subscription. But I wanted access on both my phone and my PC and that was the only way to get it.
danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I recommend Podcast Republic. Maybe recommend that to people?
akilou@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
To be fair perhaps they want to make it possible to download the podcast unencrypted in MP3
FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Completely fair, it it however worth mentioning that you can disable this data collection in settings.
atocci@kbin.social 11 months 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.
CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I feel like podcasts and their apps is what TV and movies should be.
Users pick the app they want to use. They optionally pay a fee or not. The app has any and all TV, Movies, music, etc. they want. In the back end, media rights holders have a pre-defined revenue split agreement.
It’s like federated media.
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 11 months ago
For iOS, Overcast is the only correct answer
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Please elaborate.
MxM111@kbin.social 11 months ago
I still use the default app. What can be better there?
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have come to rather like Downcast on iOS myself. Should check it out if you never have.
IronRain@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m a big fan of Podcast Republic. Great dev, feature-rich, and a much improved UI from when I first started using it.
xbit00@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Podcast Republic is my choice as well. It’s the only Podcast app that I could find that let’s you choose your download folder. I like to play my podcasts with the same app I listen to books with, so I need to download the podcasts to a publicly accessible folder.
jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I went to download it, and apparently I already had! Now to start subscribing to everything again…bleh.
geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
PodcastAddict is better in my opinion
Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Yeah podcast addict was the shit
spez_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Selfhost Audiobookshelf
Argongas@kbin.social 11 months ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I was wondering what else to try as I sure as hell don't want to use YouTube and it doesn't seem like you can have a separate podcast playlist in Spotify.
davidisgreat@lemmy.sedimentarymountains.com 11 months ago
I tried AntennaPod but went back because of Android Auto. I just found this showing how to get AntennaPod on AndroidAuto!
_number8_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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 11 months ago
Gmail is to valuable a source of advertising data
kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 months ago
In other words, Google won’t kill what they can use to harvest your data.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Proton mail!
silentknyght@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, before Gmail, I had a new email address every 2-3 years. I’ve had Gmail for what, almost 20 years? That’s not what I’d define as “ephemeral.”
dinckelman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Finding an alternative is the easy part. You can get yourself a domain on Namecheap, and get a get an email attached to it for pennies.
Issue is that a lot of services out there don’t consider alternative email providers as valid. Some as a protective measure against spam, some because… fuck knows why, honestly
Fades@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Another day another piece of Google tech tossed in the trash
Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
Owljfien@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
No advertising is correct, first I ever heard of this was hearing its getting cancelled
lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s not why they’re killing t though, it’s because they’re moving it to YouTube to get subscriptions.
hperrin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How long until they shut down Search? It’s been dog shit for years.
quo@feddit.uk 11 months ago
[deleted]Subverb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
With the announcement of Gemini you have to think Bard’s days are numbered.
ours@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A Large Language Model AI still needs a search index like OpenAI uses Bing otherwise funky hallucinations are more likely.
kworpy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
killedbygoogle.com
Tip: just don’t use Google products. Highly unreliable company.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was looking for you “OMG GOOGLE IS KILLING EVERYTHING!” people. They don’t have infinite money, stuff costs money to run and if it isn’t as popular as their other services obviously they’d shut it down. People use their products for free (monetarily) for years and then bitch and complain when something gets shut down, never having paid a cent.
kworpy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
| People use their products for free (monetarily) for years and then bitch and complain when something gets shut down, never having paid a cent.
Next time click on the link before commenting.
Amends1782@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Ty I was gonna post that link lmao
callouscomic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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 11 months ago
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.
mriormro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I will never shut up about pocket casts. Their multi-device sync is wonderful. I can pick up where I left off on any episode from any of their apps. They’ve even got a pretty decent UWP app that I use on my Windows installs. They also have rock solid Chromecast support.
I loved it so much I bought the lifetime pass a long time ago. At any rate, I can’t recommend pocket casts enough!
pazzeda@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Another great app for podcasts I can recommend is Podcast Addict. Free and it’s full of great features.
MashedTech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Supported!
kirk782@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Cheap? Unless someone snagged Pocketcasts when it was still a one off payment app, it is NOT cheap. Heck, I can pay for YouTube Premium, Spotify Premium and still have money left for one more streaming service to plug into before I hit what Pocketcasts wants me to pay. The app is good but it is the very antithesis of cheap.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Way of the world. At least the churn of enshitification means we get some new good stuff for a little while.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
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 11 months ago
YouTube Podcasts coming to the YouTube Music app delivered to you by the Google Play game delivery app!
raptore39@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I buy all my ebooks on Google Play and then export them via ACSM converter and back it up (you can only convert and exported file once)
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’ll never forgive them for killing iGoogle. I missed my start page so much…
peetabix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is there a way to download any books bought as pdfs?
spez_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Selfhost Audiobookshelf
MashedTech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 months ago
10 Google: We’re so rich! Let’s make a product! 20 Google: kills product 30 goto 10
clearleaf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 11 months ago
Lmao. I’m shocked.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Another one in the Google graveyard.
LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Room to give a shout out to Podverse, free and open source!
GhostTheToast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
Otkaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Anyone have a suggestion for a alternative simple light weight podcast app for android?
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As a Google Fi user, I really should be looking for something else.
titter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lol this is just google reader for your ears
clara@feddit.uk 11 months ago
google tries not to kill one of it’s products challenge (impossible)
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
corvid_of_the_night@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yet another Google product that goes into the grave.
yoz@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Lol they had podcast 😅
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They didn’t market this very well. Literally the first time km hearing about this
Tygr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Years ago, Google shut down services I used and since then, I don’t get involved in anything they put out there on the market. This will include their AI service.
Only thing they are allowed to provide me is email. I’m even using YT and search drastically less.
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
It’s been known for over a year that they’re planning to replace it with YouTube music
books@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google has tried like three different podcast apps and they all suck.
qevlarr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I switched to Antennapod already. Nothing to complain about.
unsaid0415@szmer.info 11 months ago
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Time to get out of Google
Podcastsfor anyone that is still using the serviceI have a Gmail account that catches/forwards stuff now and again that I signed up for over a decade ago, before I used a password manager and kept track of everything, and YouTube. A Google store line of credit, too, for pixels. Everything else I’ve migrated to my own website, or my own ‘cloud’.
There was a big issue with Google Store/Fi Store a few years ago where devices were being ‘lost’ in transit, and it ended up being FedEx employees stealing them and resealing the packages. But Google’s handling of the situation was absolutely shit, and two years of reading horror stories usually around bf or the holidays, drove me to migrate my account, one service at a time, to somewhere I could actually control and trust - as it is well-known that if you do a chargeback on G, they axe your gPay access, which means you can’t buy or pay for anything: drive/photo storage, gOne, devices, apps/music/movies/games/books, app subscriptions, pay your bill on Fi or gDomains… and if it happened to me, I would not sit quietly with no device for weeks or months while G put the blame and suspicion on me. Fuck all that. Chargeback baby, it’s not gonna be my problem anymoreeeee~
Took me from an outspoken G fanboy to ‘run the fuck away’ within 24 months, and all it took was stories of other’s being treated like shit and being on the hook for hundreds or a thousand+ dollar devices, over and over, while support did fuck-all and the actual people ‘investigating’ were not accessible by any means.
This is ofc on top of G axing shit because they feel like it. Run your own mini server, own your data, don’t be at the non-existant mercy of a massive soulless corporation.
alertsleeper@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google killing a product? No way
roofuskit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who did they kill?
alertsleeper@lemmy.world 11 months ago
killedbygoogle.com
Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Nah they done it before with chat
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your sarcasm requires calibration.