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What do you use for listening to podcasts? (feddit.online)
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I use Funkwhale for my music collection and had my podcasts in there for a while. However, I ended up not listening to my podcasts very much since they were hidden among my much larger music collection.

So I moved my podcasts feeds to FreshRSS, which I was already using for RSS feeds. I like the simplicity of using something that I already had, but it doesn't have any podcast-specific features like being able to resume where you left off.

Do you have any podcast listening apps that you like?

*edit: I should add that I originally meant "self-hostable applications for storing your podcast subscriptions," but these phone app recommendations are great to have, too. I might just ditch the server-side of this entirely and just use a separate app on my devices for listening. It would be nice if I only had to subscribe in one place and be able to pick up where I left off across multiple devices, though.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

I've actually been fighting with this since yesterday.

Pocket Casts is one of my last things that I'm not self-hosting, and I'm trying to change that.

My list of requirements was:

  1. Multi-device sync
  2. Be able to play seamlessly from either a web UI or my mobile device, picking up where I left off on either device.

For my Gpodder backend I chose to use the GpodderSync NextCloud app, since I'm already running NextCloud.

I tried PinePods and PodFetch for the web interface, both of which had various issues with sync.

Supposedly there's a big update to sync coming for PinePods in a couple days, but I wasn't able to get it working at all.

PodFetch has its own internal gpodder server implementation, but for the life of me, I could not get it to keep listen state in sync. Also, I initially set it up to use OIDC authentication since I'm also running Authentik - but don't try to do that if you want to use the Gpodder integration. The two are essentially mutually exclusive, at least in its current state.

What I've settled on for the moment:

  1. AntennaPod for mobile playback. (Be aware that there are additional steps for Android Auto support if you install it from F-Droid as I did)
  2. NextCloud GpodderSync to keep track of listen state and subscriptions.
  3. NextCloud NextPod app for web UI playback. I'm not exactly happy with this, as it's a very ugly and basic UI, but it does work, and it does keep track of where I left off the way I want. Hopefully the PinePods update fixes my issues with it, as the web interface for that was much more slick.
[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm using antennapod. It syncs to a selfhosted gpodder instance and some podcasts are hosted on my audiobookshelf. I like some exclusive podcasts from podimo but their player is shit. Selfhost a tool that creates rss feeds for those walled podimo podcasts and they get downloaded and served by audiobookshelf.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

That's a very slick setup, nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

feedbin, I just use the web app on my phone/laptop

[–] Tinkerer 3 points 21 hours ago

I'm self hosting audiobookshelf with tailscale. Also use home assistant with music assistant to play my podcasts on all my home speakers as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm using AntennaPod but it's annoying me that I can't sort and autoplay oldest to newest. Unused to use podcast addict but I'm keeping google play services outta my main profile in grapheneOS which means I cant use my pro licence for pocketcasts...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The queue can be sorted by date. If you hit date again it reverse the order.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, however it wont auto-download oldest-newset, and more annoyingly it wont play next in that reversed order, it just stops the ep and I have to manually find and select the next ep in that podcast. I sorta don't grok the AP workflow with queue and inbox - most of my podcasts are story/investigative journalism style and I want to just click on a podcast, press play to resume where I was at, and auto roll through the podcast in whatever order it should be.

APs workflow seems very much aimed at listen to a jumble of whatever's been recently released' so I feel like I'm fighting it to work like I expect

[–] SethranKada 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Podcast Addict.

My only gripe is that it only works on mobile, so I can't have all my settings shared with my laptop. Otherwise, it's nearly flawless and the premium is cheap as hell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yep, podcast addict premium user for several years now. Rock solid app, though I do wish it supported the full podcasting 2.0 feature set, all of the namespace, V4V, wallet integration, ect. But for now I just use fountain for my 2.0 shows and it works, it's just annoying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I use podcast addict as well, I use tailscale and scrcpy to listen when I'm on my laptop, I find it works pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hey! I'm the Developer of Pinepods. It really aims to be the ultimate podcast solution that's as self-hosted as possible. I'm trying to make it as fleshed out feature wise as any paid or android specific podcast application while allowing for server sync and access everywhere on any device. Its getting better and better all the time! https://pinepods.online/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Pinepods looks so cool! I just created an account on the demo instance. The "smart playlists" feature just absolutely sold me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a pretty interesting concept as a self-hosted. Sadly integration with android auto is important to me, and my understanding is that forces you into needing an app

Curious if car play on your radar at all - my brains telling me it's be a PITA to solve for in a wep app unless you also maintained android/iOS apps that wrapped the webui justnto implement carplay

Edit: I see you've got a android beta and auto on the readme milestone - I'll keep an eye on this project and probably toss it on my homelab for testing once it's a nix package.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 2 days ago (5 children)

AntennaPod

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (5 children)

What I'd like to know: For anyone using some app other than AntennaPod: Why? How is it worth it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I've never used Antenna Pod, but I've used Podcast Addict for more than a decade, I've paid for the pro app, and I've been really impressed by what it can do.

I like to have many podcasts downloaded to my phone, and Podcast addict has really granular controls for what to download and keep for how long, in the general case, and for each podcast you can dial in custom settings, for example not auto-downloading or deleting. It helps me have plenty of audio to listen to at all times without blowing up the storage on my phone.

The various automatic playlists for downloaded episodes, new episodes, and recent episodes are also very useful to me.

I've found the developer to be really nice and he will personally respond to bug reports and support requests if anything doesn't go as planned.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There seems to be a lot of fun checking out Podcast apps, but I couldn’t find a lot of these on iOS App Store sigh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm guessing that most iPhone users just use Apple Podcasts, and Apple themselves probably want it that way. (E.g. less promotion of third-party podcast apps on the app store.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I like PodAura. It doesn't have as many features as AntennaPod, including discovery, but it has the ones that are useful to me, and I like the layout.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

with shame I will say Spoty is my only subscription...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Audiobookshelf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I duct taped together some API calls and a config file to get some smart playlist features. I find it very helpful for the slow pace I listen to some podcasts. I have it set up to put daily and weekly episodes first and then serials. Super niche , but it's just how I like to listen to my podcasts. https://github.com/TunaLobster/PyAutoABSPlaylist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This looks cool! I was yearning for a similar feature just a few days ago. Thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Let me know if you hit issues. It was a very thrown together thing that is very lacking in customization without hacking python logic together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I primarily use antennapod but tried abs out of curiousity. How did you get around the queue issue? I found it to be a dealbreaker

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Audiobookshelf.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

AntennaPod. Can allegedly sync via gpodder.net or gpoddersync. Personally never got it to work quite right, but I didn't try very hard either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I got mine working with sync on my nextcloud self hosted instance

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I use Podcast Addict on Android.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I use Podcast Addict too. Found it well over six years ago and never bothered to look for another.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've just found out how to setup audiobookshelf for podcasts and I'm a bit annoyed that I won't be using antennapod anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

I let audiobookshelf serve rss feeds for podcasts which I sub to in antennapod.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I have a slightly overcomplicated setup, but I use audiobookshelve to download all my podcasts for archival purposes and then antennapod on android to listen to them (the rss feeds generated by aufiobookshelve) which syncs everything to gpodder for nextcloud. I also occasionally listen to the pods via Kasts on my desktop, also synced with gpodder.

I specifically use audiobookshelve inbetween, since I have some paid podcast subscriptions and I don't want to loose that content if I ever stop paying or they go under.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

This is also kinda like my setup, nice!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use Gonic, does exactly what I need. It’s in a docker container and hasn’t let me down in over a year.

To listen to Podcasts from it I use play:Sub on iOS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

That minimalist UI looks very nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have Podgrab setup, but I mostly just use PodcastAddict on my phone

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Pocket Casts on Android.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I use Podfetch for gpodder sync with the previously mentioned AntennaPod. I had to wrestle it a bit with permissions, but I think it covers your use case of syncing listening history.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I download my podcasts from YouTube through pinchflat to strip out the ads then mount the RSS feed(s) into antennapod

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

GPodder is the FreshRSS equivalent for podcasts.

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