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LaGG_3 ,
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If it’s one of the podcasts that uses a service to auto-insert ads, you can always change your VPN to a country that wouldn’t be relevant and it’ll usually download without ads. It almost always works if I set mine to Japan or Thailand.

kratoz29 ,

Huh, TIL that is how the ads worked with Podcasts… Does it transcode the audio file?

It is funny to have Spanish ads while I listen to English podcasts lol (native language is Spanish).

Mothra ,

If the podcast is available on YouTube, Newpipe does the job brilliantly and you even have forks/options to skip sponsor ads too.

harsh3466 ,

God, I wish there was. If there is, I haven’t found it. And I’ve been looking

TyMan210 ,
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It’s not quite the same, but Pocket Casts lets you customize how many seconds the skip buttons go forward and back by, which can at least make it a little less tedious

alsaaas ,
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Antennapod has the same function and many more, and is free(as in beer and freedom)/libre

I can rly recommend it since it doesn’t lock features behind a paywall and respects your privacy

jeena ,
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I really want podcast apps to hook into SponsorBlock.

Right now I'm listening to very few English podcasts because of all the advertisement. I switched to German and Swedish because most of them don't have any advertisement in them.

kratoz29 ,

I really just want a podcast app that replaces Pocket Casts (I use the free version).

What I look is a client that works with pretty much all the possible gadgets (even a damn Amazon Alexa) and have Sync between all of them).

Pocket Casts does this to me but the Alexa client is kinda broken (it never saves/sync the progress) and the PC client is behind the paywall.

Spotify is a close one for what I want… But I just don’t like it.

VeganCheesecake ,
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There is a paid version of pocket casts?

kirk781 ,
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Yes, the free version doesn’t let you organize podcasts into folders for example. The paid version has a browser accessible version(so one can access from PC) , some gigs(10 GB?) of cloud storage and some extra theme able icons.

It used to be a one time purchase back in the day. Then they moved to a yearly subscription model. I think I used their paid variant for one year or so.

I recently moved to AntennaPod, which is available on F Droid. It is more or less at feature parity with the free version of Pocketcasts. It technically has gPodder integration to sync your podcasts online but honestly that service breaks down a lot and is unreliable multiple times.

azron ,

Can you share the German podcasts you enjoy?

GissaMittJobb ,

Podcasts often dynamically generate ads at the point of download, making the SponsorBlock-approach unviable: since the media is expected to be variable-length you can’t store media positions that map to advertisement segments.

VeganCheesecake ,
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I listen to several ad supported English language podcasts, and most of them seem to have difficulties with Pocket Casts, or some other part of my setup. The only ones that do get ads placed are the ones that use Spotify Megaphone for their backend.

can ,

Only on YouTube but it’s crowdsourced. SponsorBlock for ReVanced is the only way to watch for me.

Mountain_Mike_420 ,

Does this happen on iOS too? I listen to podcasts every night for an hour and never hear any ads except for the ones encoded with the file, ie sponsor ads.

LodeMike ,

I think they might be referring to a specific Poscast. They’re generally free and finding one that doesn’t have ads is easy. If it was Spotify they would have asked for Spotify.

And OP is it is Spotify and you’re on amdroid there’s patches apks that block ads.

Sivilian ,

If they have a YouTube version I use www.podtube.me to make an RSS feed and put it in my Podcast player of choice.

Kumikommunism ,
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If it’s on YouTube, then Sponsorblock will work on it as well. (Given someone has marked the sections, which is almost always)

lemonuri ,

Podcasts are a leftover from the non centralized and non-monetized internet of the past. Because is that most Podcasts are still available as rss feeds, so you should only ever get adds if they are spoken by the Podcasts hosts. Ate you taking about those? Only something like sponsorblock would help against those. I use antennapod (fdroid) on android to listen to Podcasts. Sine hosts always start their podcast with an add, but you can autoskip the first minute of a certain podcast with antennapod every time. It has a setting for that. Antenna pod itself is foss software without adds.

VeganCheesecake ,
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Many modern podcast solutions seem to be injecting ads into the audio file they serve, to varying degrees of success.

nonentity ,

I think this would make a good -arr application.

Ingest podcast feeds, crowdsource hashes of whole and partial sections of the downloaded audio, which should be a good start to auto-tag dynamically inserted ads.

For non-dynamic ads, provide an interface to manually identify their start/end, and publish for others. The same interface could be used to add chapters and other metadata.

Then you’d just point your podcast app to an RSS feed you self host.

I propose Listenarr, unless this has already been taken.

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