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Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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[–] grandel@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago

Google doing Google things.

[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

@AntennaPod@fosstodon.org has everything you might need, is open source and is on Fedi at that!

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

AntennaPod (Easy-to-use, flexible and open-source podcast manager and player) https://f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

edit: just now trying the app. Really awesome, better than the thing I'm currently using. Thanks for the suggestion!

[–] Wildchandelure@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This is like 5x better than google podcasts. Goddamn. It actually works in maps, isnt glitching, and i like the UI more. Awesome.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you have to download them manually, or is at simple as giving it a link? Audiobookshelf has podcasts but I have to figure out how to manually download and organize them.

[–] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

You can add podcasts in a lot of ways. Here's the add podcast menu:

Screenshot_20231209_175300_AntennaPod

[–] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use it daily. The only thing I miss is casting to other speakers around my home.

[–] aindriu_b@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Google Play version of AntennaPod has Cast enable, FDroid version didn't the last time I checked.

[–] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Oh I didn't even check for a play store version, thanks for the heads up!

[–] Xer0@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Oh for fuck sake. Everything I use of Google's that is half decent always ends up getting the chop.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Now, a new support article details Google's plans to kill the product, with a shutdown coming in April 2024.

I think all the core podcast features exist somewhere, but they are buried in several menus.

There are more podcast-centric features sequestered away in YouTube Music, where a button with the very confusing label "Save to library" will subscribe to a podcast feed.

Music is a different interface, site, and app, so none of these billions of YouTube viewers are seeing these podcast features.

But this is the future of Google's podcast content, so the company is plowing ahead with it.

If you're looking to get off Google's wild ride and want something straightforward that works across platforms, I recommend Pocket Casts.

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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Another one bites the dust!