I had the same calculation a while ago. The feature where you could resume a podcast on my phone and Google Home speaker was tempting, but I stuck with Pocket Casts, which I just feel is more invested in their product. And the idea of listening to podcasts on Youtube is just not for me. Same reason I've never wanted podcasts on Spotify; podcast listening is something I want separate, not mixed with music.
Can confirm, I listen to podcasts on Spotify and it's really annoying.
Pocket casts has been getting a little too bloaty with features for me lately but it's still the best out there
What did you switch to? I need a decent podcast app... I currently use Google podcasts. I used to use castbox, but the ads became unbearable.
Not who you asked, but I use podbean and have recently started using antennapod. Both are really good, but antennapod is open source from what I understand, and I've been able to find more podcasts on it. Only gripes with it are that you can't rate the podcasts on it, and you can't set it play all episodes of a certain podcast automatically. You have to add them to a queue manually and play from the queue. Other than that it's absolutely fantastic.
Pocket casts is really good, but their premium pricing has really climbed recently (device syncing, better organization options, and desktop/web clients). AntennaPod is almost as good and FOSS if that matters to you.
Thanks looks like pocket casts has a lot of support. I'll give it a go.
It's great as the free version, but if you were one of the lucky few that supported the desktop app years ago, the lifetime license is chefs kiss
I landed on Podcast Addict. It was similar enough for me to switch pretty easily.
You know, it is a running joke that Google keeps killing their products within a few years or so after release. but with all seriousness, it makes me not trust any product they release because I have no idea if it'll even be around a year later.
Dear Google, stop trying to make YT Music happen. It's not going to happen.
Just downloaded AntennaPod
I happen to use YT Music despite it sucking because I already pay for YouTube premium, and it seemed dumb to pay for Spotify or Tidal instead. Plus I hated what Spotify was doing by trying to combine music and podcasts into a single app. So naturally, a few years later Google is combining music and podcasts into a single app.
A few years ago, before Google introduced YouTube music, they had the Google Play Music app that let you listen to their entire catalog, download/cache the songs beforehand, listen to your own audio files on local storage (including .flac files), and subscribe and listen to Podcasts.
Literally was one of my most used apps until YouTube Music happened and they had less features for double the price.
Yep Google Play Music was literally perfect. It was incredible. And now it's gone I have to use Spotify and the world's most backwards fucking 'add to queue' logic. Get fucked Spotify. Best of a bad bunch.
@greyjedi @GamingChairModel Google Podcasts is being killed off and everything moved to YouTube Music. I won't be moving with it.
@rwaddilove @greyjedi @GamingChairModel don't worry, #AntennaPod is waiting for you!
+1 for AntennaPod, has tons of options but also gets out of your way if all you want to do is find and listen to podcasts.
I can't see Google ever adding in all the options people want in a podcast app into YouTube Music, it's just never going to happen.
I would expect they'll probably use it to try and switch you over to the video version (if it exists) since it's going to have the more expensive ads (I assume the video ads are more lucrative anyways), which isn't overall a bad thing, but also not really a good one either.
GP Music wasn't too bad. I wish Apple would bring an iTunes client to Android, or at least if there were a decent comparable product (that supports streaming+purchasing music as I actually prefer to buy the songs I like).
Locking people into the streaming model is lame
I use Bandcamp, which does allow you to stream purchases, though I prefer to download the flac files and stream via Jellyfin
Don't have either and don't see ad's on Youtube. Fuck yt premium
Do people generally like having their podcasts and music on the same app? I never understood why so many music apps added podcasts.
They added podcasts because it is comparatively cheap (they don't have to pay the record labels any royalties).
I do. It helps to have it all in one place. Also since I'm paying for Spotify, I'm glad I'm not paying for another separate podcast service, and it feels like I get my money's worth. Probably listen to a good 3-4 hours of podcasts per week and another 20-30 hours of music. If I was JUST doing podcasts, I'd probably use another service but it's nice to have it all in one place that behaves the same for me in the car.
Why would you pay for a podcast service?
There are a bunch of podcast client apps that are free to use, some are open source, and they are utilizing indices such as podcastindex.org to give you access to podcasts.
I see what you're saying. If for some reason podcasts became untenable on Spotify or inconvenient for me I would probably look more into a service like that. As it is though, my 2-3 hours per week are fine on Spotify. Good to know there are other options out there though.
I know it's not really important but I prefer the design of the Podcasts app (Material You). YouTube Music is always completely black and clashes with the design of every other app made by Google. 🤷♂️
This is stupid (as usual). I use the podcast app and when it will be turned off guess what i will use instead? Any other app instead of YouTube Music!!! Why? Because F**k Google!!! That's why! I swear, it's like they are deliberately trying to push me away from all their services. First Chrome, then Google search, and now podcast too. I'm already looking at some decent Gmail alternative.
'Podcast Addict' is an amazing alternative.
And these Google actions are what cause me to #degoogle my life, finding alternatives for every Google thing I use. Damn you Google, don't be like that...
Absolutely second podcast addict, it's what I use for my podcasts and downloaded audio books
k-9 for Gmail account there's also protonmail, tutanota and posteo.de
even thunderbird works
Am I totally crazy or did the word “podcast” come directly from the Apple proprietary product name “iPod?” You know, their old music players?
If so it’s weird to see an Apple-specific term spread so far and wide. They usually stay within the walled garden.
Client side scripts for automatically downloading episodes published through RSS, and then copying it to your iTunes library, where it would update your iPod the next time you connected it to your computer. This was long before mobile internet so iPods could only be updated by plugging into a computer with iTunes installed.
You would sync them to your iPod like any other audio. You download the podcast, put it in your iTunes library and when you plugged in your iPod it would transfer everything over.
Remembering back before iCloud sync and plugging in your iPhone to iTunes and thinking it synced but then realising the playback position never synced and you had to manually find your way in every single podcast again
The first podcast was Christopher Lydon's Radio Open Source. The term podcast was created to describe it. It's still going strong. If you like ideas, books, music, vaguely leftish politics you might like it.
It has nothing to do with open source software.
At this point I can't even say I'm surprised that Google did this anymore.
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When Stitcher shut down I briefly considered this app as an alternative but I said, no. These guys can't be trusted to stick around. So no surprise here but thanks clamman for sharing it.
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