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krush_groove ,

Aaaaand this is why I didn’t move my podcasts to Google Podcasts.

atrielienz ,

Other than being relieved when they removed the podcast from Google play music (after shoehorning it into the GPM app for no good reason), I didn’t really use this much. Pocketcasts has pretty much always done what I needed.

set_secret ,

at it to the growing pile i guess…

LifeOfChance ,

I learned with Google music never get involved with Google with something you’ll want to use daily. Google music hands down was the absolute best music service I’ve ever used. Google is like a kid with ADHD bouncing around from project to project never to see them through.

pete_the_cat ,

I used it from the start, I got in on the beta, and while it was nice, I wouldn’t say “it was the absolute best”. IMO Spotify is just as good, in fact I’d say it’s better. It was nice that you could upload 20,000 of your own songs, but that was back before we had hundreds of gigs available on our phones.

Why do you consider it “the absolute best”?

TheDezzick ,

As a former Google Play Music user and lover, it was the recommendations. I haven’t found another service that shows me even a significant fraction of the music I like that Google did. I’ve switched to Spotify but it constantly recommends songs I’ve already heard or don’t like and the shuffle feature gives me the same ~50 songs from a large playlist. It’s something I’ve accepted but I miss the Google recommendations deeply.

clegko ,
@clegko@lemmy.world avatar

Have you tried Pandora? I always thought Pandora was better at recommending music than GPM was, but it was close.

pete_the_cat ,

I’m the opposite, I never really used GPM’s recommendations because I knew what I liked and had tons of ripped CDs in my collection. After we all ditched MP3s and went to streaming I still stuck with what I knew. I only switched to Spotify about 2 years ago and it has opened me up to a bunch of smaller artists in Europe (I’m in the US) that I would have never found on my own. One of them (Green Lads) I’ve listened to for 2500 hours this past year thanks to their recommendations.

variants ,

For me it was the ability to upload my own library and stream it without a subscription, I ended up switching to plex and running my own server for a while but yeah Spotify just has the best deal with no effort so I caved to that especially with a family plan you can’t beat it.

pete_the_cat ,

IIRC Play Music was a paid service, it probably had a free tier with ads/commercials, but I definitely paid for it. That’s how I got grandfathered into YouTube Premium (when they launched YouTube Red as it was called it came “free” with the subscription to Play Music) and can’t go back to the free tier or deal with the various hacked clients and ad blockers. It’s been over a decade of ad-free YouTube (except for the sponsor segments everyone does now, I do use SmartTube on my Nvidia Shield to skip those).

variants ,

Yeah I think at some point they started subscriptions but you were able to keep your old library from before

feedum_sneedson ,

I am, what’s a good alternative.

Empricorn ,

I absolutely love Podcast Addict.

OxidantZero ,

I’ll add another vote for Podcast Addict.

variants ,

That’s the best one I found because of all the options. Prioritizing podcasts and auto downloading and adding them to the queue is so good. I listen to a news podcast that is like 10 minutes long everyday and I like that I could have it downloaded and play first on my commute then continue where I left off on the other podcasts without having to do it manually like with spotify

TheSanSabaSongbird ,

I like Podcast Republic because it’s easy to keep it simple for troglodytes like myself who don’t want or need all the bells and whistles.

Yttra ,

I’ve been using AntennaPod recently

github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod

melechric ,

I love AntennnaPod - except when I’m in the car. It doesn’t have Android Auto support.

Empricorn ,

Unacceptable for me! That’s almost the only time I listen to podcasts, while driving…

tester1121 ,
@tester1121@lemmy.world avatar

I use Spotify for my podcasts, but I will never check out YouTube Music podcasts. Having 2 ads before the start of a podcast as if I’m watching a YouTube video is just unacceptable for me.

clara ,

google tries not to kill one of it’s products challenge (impossible)

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

There’s a website called “killed by google”

It’s nice to see the giant graveyard of products they hyped up and then killed when a tiny percentage of people stopped using it for an instant.

GhostTheToast ,

Google seems to be caught in an awful feedback loop. I feel like at this point, most tech savy people are weary to try new Google services for fear of liking them, but eventually getting shutdown. In turn causing those tech savy users to not recommend it to their friends/family that actually might cause it to grow.

Honestly don’t know how they get out it without either losing tons of money on maybe side projects or happening across the one things that’s so good it’s impossible to not use. The latter seems more unlikely by the day

madcaesar ,

I’m long past attaching anything important to new google services. They’d have to pay me to use their shit.

FinishingDutch ,
@FinishingDutch@lemmy.world avatar

I use it, I like it and it works with zero issues. It also easily works with my Google Home speaker. So of course it gets shut down. Because obviously. Sigh.

That said, Pocket Casts on iOS is also quite decent.

slumberlust ,

Odd, I use the same on mobile and max hub and find they only sync on way. If I listen to one on the hub I have to manually remember where I left off.

netwren ,

Same I pivoted to PocketCasts

evatronic ,

Pocket Casts has both an Android and iOS version. If you pay for their “subscription” their web app also works, though I’ve never used it I’ve heard good things.

books ,

Google has tried like three different podcast apps and they all suck.

ano_ba_to ,

To their credit, at least they’re still trying to build stuff. Microsoft avoids this problem by no longer innovating and just buying into whatever is trending. (Not that Google also isn’t doing the same). If you never build anything new, you never risk killing a product that didn’t trend, which happens a lot.

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

I think if they decide to kill off a product they should be required to open source it.

MeatsOfRage ,

Required by who? Lemmy posters? How would this possibly be enforced? What constitutes a product vs a feature?

It’s not even like Google podcasts was anything special, there’s tons of better alternatives.

unsaid0415 ,

https://szmer.info/pictrs/image/b82b4d4d-6788-4456-a1df-956331b4be79.png

clearleaf ,

Another service that I didn’t know google even offered until they announced it was dying. There are so many sources that podcast apps can pull from that we don’t need half as many as we have.

Goony ,

I actually really enjoy it. It’s my go to no frills podcast app that isn’t paired with music or other extra stuff

Sargteapot ,

I now use pocket cast , it’s similar with its simplistically but still different.

afraid_of_zombies ,

I used podcast addict. It does what I need it to do.

ManosTheHandsOfFate ,
@ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world avatar

It does what you need it to do because it does everything. Podcast Addict is one of the most feature rich apps.

gwkt ,

podcast addict is fantastic, I tried a lot of different options before settling on it

chockblock ,

I’ve been using AntennaPod and it is no frills and works flawlessly.

mohammed_alibi ,

Podcasts are just mp3s (or whatever other audio format like ogg). Authors/pod casters should just host them on their site and be done with it. Why let some other company take a lion share of your ad profit. We need less centralized services and more distributed services. Use lemmy or mastodon to promote them. :)

slumberlust ,

There is value in aggregate discoverabilty via these sites. They also post to all of them not just one. Podcast advertising is dying across the board.

kworpy , (edited )

killedbygoogle.com

Tip: just don’t use Google products

pete_the_cat ,

I was looking for you “OMG GOOGLE IS KILLING EVERYTHING!” people. They don’t have infinite money, stuff costs money to run and if it isn’t as popular as their other services obviously they’d shut it down. People use their products for free (monetarily) for years and then bitch and complain when something gets shut down, never having paid a cent.

kworpy , (edited )

People use their products for free (monetarily) for years and then bitch and complain when something gets shut down, never having paid a cent.

Click on the link before commenting, and where did I give a shit about google shutting their stuff down?

systemglitch ,

I see someone like him and block him instantly, knowing I just made life better.

pete_the_cat ,

Scared of differing opinions I see 🤣

pete_the_cat ,

Yeah, some things that cost money were killed off, but that’s what happens when they try making everything. Most people have never paid a dime to Google.

Amends1782 ,

Ty I was gonna post that link lmao

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