I’m currently looking for a replacement to castbox. Castbox us OK, but I want to learn what else good is out there. Bonus points for one that has movement-sensitive sleep timer the way Smart AudioBook Player has.

UPDATE: Testing out Antennapod. Looks nice, and seems to do what I want it to do. I need to experiment with the auto-download a bit and see if it behaves the way I want it to. If it does, we have a winner.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The problem is that everyone seems to have a different workflow. I’ve used AntennaPod every day for years and I have a bunch of problems with it that are all different from yours! I’ve also got a couple of others fixed and features added by lobbying for them on the issue tracker BTW.

    I suspect there are better commercial options out there

    Not so sure, I’ve tried a bunch. Used Doggcatcher for years: not as advanced. Also PocketCasts for years at one point: this had better UX but when I tried it again recently I was underwhelmed and found it was missing things I wanted.

    The main issue with the commercial clients is that they’re all desperately trying to become platforms, with obligatory sign-in and data harvesting. Typically by using cloud sync as the bait.

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      Google podcasts was a very low feature player, but it also just worked. Antennapod almost seems like it’s trying to be too many things to too many people. I’m not looking for anything fancy. Give me a list of episodes from my subscriptions and let me play them start to end without drama.

      I wonder if the floor is falling out on podcasting. I’ve heard more than one host mention that ad revenue is down year over year by a decent margin :(