Rule of Google: if it works, kill it.

I know, I know, using Google apps isn’t the best, but this was a perfectly good Podcast app with all the features you might want.

Apparently they’re moving everything over to YouTube Music, where a lot of the features of Google Podcasts aren’t implemented yet.

I’ve moved over to an app from F-Droid.

  • TheControlled@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Trying to find my podcasts in YouTube Music’s Android Auto app took around 8 button presses. Google Podcasts took 0.

    I switched to Spotify for podcasts and it still takes 3 or so, but good enough for now.

  • celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Honestly I already use AntennaPod from F-Droid and with youtube music revanced this might give me some new podcast recommendations.

    • Frostbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Pocket Cast is still decent. But they increases the sub prices a lot recently. I was still on an old plan, so I don’t know what I’ll do when it expires. What bugs me more is podcast releasing exclusively on certain platformes. Congratulations, you just reinvented radio

    • Toldry@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Tombstone 2025-2027 Google Euthanasia

      Will be killed 3 years from now, Google Euthanasia will have been a service to order remote drone assassins for instant palliative relief. Closed due to privacy laws in the EU.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I use Audiobookshelf for audiobooks, but apparently it supports Podcasts too. I haven’t tried that feature yet.

    It’s a self-hosted system that you run on your own serverm

  • Shape4985@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Im lazy and use spotify for podcasts but i do plan to stop and use RSS at some point in the future

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I moved to Podcast Republic, and sometimes AntennaPod, on Android, Downcast on iPhone, and just import the OPML from one of those into gpodder to listen on desktop/laptop.

    No accounts or other BS to keep up with, just the latest OPML export. Much nicer, and no one can take it away from me or “shut the service down” in the future.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    My problem is when they kill services that are default installations on Android, then never remove them from the OS image.

    I’m looking at you Allo.

  • Toldry@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’ve been using ‘Pocket Casts’ on Android for years. Highly recommend it.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I’ve been plugging it too, but apparently new users have to pay monthly fees to use it? Maybe there are now better alternatives.

      • IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        7 months ago

        This is not true. The app is free and has no listening limits.

        What you can pay for is a web player (for pc), cross device syncing, cloud storage, extra themes, and some other perks.

        Been using pocket casts for like 7 years now with no complaints.

        • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I’ve been pretty happy with how Automattic has handled PocketCasts and the premium features feel like what you’d expect, while the main product is perfectly usable for 90% of people and use cases. I hope with their acquisition of Beeper, they continue this mindset and add premium features (extra themes, premium stickers, etc) without compromising the main app.

    • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Yeah but that price jump is nuts. I’m sure there’s something out there 70% as good for 10% of the price.

      • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        7 months ago

        That’d be Antenna Pod. It’s (IMO) not as good as Pocket Casts, but FOSS is always good.

        The thing that keeps me on Pocket Casts is really just the superior queue management. I’ll keep checking back on Antenna Pod though

        • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Amazing thank you. I’ve got the one-year-of-older-price thing for people who were already subscribed.

          But seeing as how I don’t use any of the features… when that’s gone I will be unlikely to renew.

  • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I just ignore any new Google service these days. Unreliability isn’t even as much of a concern as privacy.

    • brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Google music, Google+, Google Spaces, they even killed Google Cache recently - which was a fantastic way to get around my work’s brain-dead decision to block the company (including IT) from reaching Reddit.

      • cannache@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        7 months ago

        You would think with the further advancement of humanity, with or without technology we would have more reason to cache and archive things out there whether it’s by the written word of paper, the internet or via our phone cameras.

    • tourist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Tombstone 2030-2032 Google Pacemaker

      Killed 8 years from now, Google Pacemaker was an IoT pacemaker for patients with heart arrhythmia. All devices were remotely deactivated after 2 years.

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Tombstone 2030-2032 Google Pacemaker

        Killed 8 years from now, Google Pacemaker was an IoT pacemaker for patients with heart arrhythmia. All devices were remotely deactivated after 2 years.

        🤯 😂

    • candybrie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Pixel Pass

      Killed 8 months ago, Pixel Pass was a program that allowed users to pay a monthly charge for their Pixel phone and upgrade immediately after two years. It was almost 2 years old.

      Well, that seems particularly scummy.

  • niisyth@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    How else are they gonna half ass implement that into youtube and make that shit bloated af.

    It has long form content, Tiktok clone, Main music delivery system, Twitch clone, And now, Podcasts.

    👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Going to be called YouTube Podcasts. Soon to be spun off into Google Wallet + Podcasts, then to be renamed Podcasts Pay, then Pay Podcasts, then Google Chrome with Podcasts.

    • xyguy@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I don’t have YouTube Pro or whatever its called now and when I listen to music on my Google home it plays an ad after ever song. Since I have switched to Pihole and blocked googles DNS servers the only ads I get are to buy premium YouTube which I assume are hardcoded into something somewhere.

      We better be careful, with Googles track record they will be getting rid of YouTube soon and rolling it into whatever they are calling their Skype clone nowadays.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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        7 months ago

        We better be careful, with Googles track record they will be getting rid of YouTube soon and rolling it into whatever they are calling their Skype clone nowadays.

        I think that five products are reasonably safe from Google’s euthanasia project:

        • YouTube
        • Google Search
        • Chrome
        • “core” Android system + Play Store (it counts as one)
        • AdSense

        The common factor between them is advertisement: vulturing on your personal info (Chrome, GS, Android), serving you ads (YT, GS), ensuring that advertisers must pay the vassal tax to advertise (AdSense), and walling you in ways that you can’t fight back (Chrome, Android+Play Store).

        Google stopped being a technology business a long time ago; pragmatically nowadays it’s simply an advertisement company that dabbles on tech.

          • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Good catch on GMail - it’s at the same time a vector to invade your privacy and an additional barrier for people leaving the Google ecosystem battery farm.

            I’m not sure on GSuite.

            • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
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              7 months ago

              GSuite is well used in corporate settings as a cheaper alternative to O365 enterprise.

        • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Google stopped being a technology business a long time ago; pragmatically nowadays it’s simply an advertisement company that dabbles on tech

          They’ve primarily been an ad company ever since they acquired DoubleClick in 2008.

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      It seems like their trying to roll everything into the over media app and subscription

      Kind of makes sense, all their other apps are pretty fragmented and crappy.

    • Trae@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      It also has games now.

      I don’t think it’s rolled out to a lot of people. No one at work can see them except me, but my Google app has games that I can bring up.

  • scumola@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I went to podcini on f-droid. No ads. Works just like Google podcasts. Even has the play speed thing which I really like.