Does this mean YouTube Podcasts is ready for prime time?

Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.

  • FrederikNJS@lemm.eeEnglish
    623·
    11 months ago

    Podcast Addict is not quite as streamlined, but has many more features.

    My favorite feature is the “Automatic Rewind” combined with “Incremental rewind”. It adds a rewind everytime you pause and resume an episode that increases the longer the podcast has been paused. It means that if I briefly pause, for example to respond to. Some one in real life talking to me, then it will automatically rewind 5 seconds when I start the podcast again, so I can hear the sentence I was in the middle of in full. But if I leave a podcast alone for a week, then it will rewind 1 minute so I can get fully back into the context of what I was listening to.

    • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
      13·
      11 months ago

      I have used this for years now. It’s really great. I have it set to skip the first 7 minutes of only certain podcasts because they usually have 7 - 8 minutes of ads. I also have it skip silences, which speeds up listening more than I first thought it would.

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        11 months ago

        Podcast Addict is exactly the kind of app I wish were in vogue again. Rather than dropping features and hiding options in a race to be “streamlined”, it’s a properly designed piece of software in the classic sense: its a tool first and foremost. It prioritizes usability first, aesthetics second, and gives you all the buttons and levers to make it your own.

        Like, it’s the kind of app where if you’re using it and think “eh I don’t like this one thing”, if you look in the settings, there’s probably a way to turn it off. God damn what I wouldn’t give for this to be common place design philosophy again.

        Dev is really cool and responsive, too.

        • FrederikNJS@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          This is exactly why I run Linux on all my computers, and run as much open-source software as I can, build my own home server, and set up my own home-automation. It does have a time cost, over convenience, but being able to tailor everything to my needs and wants is a wonderful feeling.

          But yes, it would be wonderful if this was a more common mentality in software in general. Especially on mobile devices.

          • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            That time cost is spent optimizing, learning, and growing as an engineer. I wasn’t always a full time, highly paid system engineer. It started at home, and I marketed those skills.

    • gen/Eric@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      Another vote for Podcast Addict. It works with Android Auto in my car :⁠-⁠)

      Now to listen to all these shows I have downloaded…

    • Blóðbók@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      What you describe is also a feature of AntennaPod.

      Edit: AntennaPod is also open source.