I use Funkwhale for my music collection and had my podcasts in there for a while. However, I ended up not listening to my podcasts very much since they were hidden among my much larger music collection.
So I moved my podcasts feeds to FreshRSS, which I was already using for RSS feeds. I like the simplicity of using something that I already had, but it doesn’t have any podcast-specific features like being able to resume where you left off.
Do you have any podcast listening apps that you like?
*edit: I should add that I originally meant “self-hostable applications for storing your podcast subscriptions,” but these phone app recommendations are great to have, too. I might just ditch the server-side of this entirely and just use a separate app on my devices for listening. It would be nice if I only had to subscribe in one place and be able to pick up where I left off across multiple devices, though.
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I’m using AntennaPod but it’s annoying me that I can’t sort and autoplay oldest to newest. Unused to use pocketcasts but I’m keeping google play services outta my main profile in grapheneOS which means I cant use my pro licence for pocketcasts…
with shame I will say Spoty is my only subscription…
Podcast Addict.
My only gripe is that it only works on mobile, so I can’t have all my settings shared with my laptop. Otherwise, it’s nearly flawless and the premium is cheap as hell.
I use podcast addict as well, I use tailscale and scrcpy to listen when I’m on my laptop, I find it works pretty well.
I like PodAura. It doesn’t have as many features as AntennaPod, including discovery, but it has the ones that are useful to me, and I like the layout.
Hey! I’m the Developer of Pinepods. It really aims to be the ultimate podcast solution that’s as self-hosted as possible. I’m trying to make it as fleshed out feature wise as any paid or android specific podcast application while allowing for server sync and access everywhere on any device. Its getting better and better all the time! https://pinepods.online/
I use Gonic, does exactly what I need. It’s in a docker container and hasn’t let me down in over a year.
To listen to Podcasts from it I use play:Sub on iOS
I have Podgrab setup, but I mostly just use PodcastAddict on my phone
Same, it would be great to have a trove of podcasts saved on my media server but the medium is very geared towards passively receiving episodes, listening once at most, and deleting.
I’ve just found out how to setup audiobookshelf for podcasts and I’m a bit annoyed that I won’t be using antennapod anymore.
I have a slightly overcomplicated setup, but I use audiobookshelve to download all my podcasts for archival purposes and then antennapod on android to listen to them (the rss feeds generated by aufiobookshelve) which syncs everything to gpodder for nextcloud. I also occasionally listen to the pods via Kasts on my desktop, also synced with gpodder.
I specifically use audiobookshelve inbetween, since I have some paid podcast subscriptions and I don’t want to loose that content if I ever stop paying or they go under.
I think you could probably skip antennapod and gpodder sync by using only audiobookshelf
I know, but the mobile client is lacking in features and I like antennapod (and gpodders client independence)
I use Podfetch for gpodder sync with the previously mentioned AntennaPod. I had to wrestle it a bit with permissions, but I think it covers your use case of syncing listening history.
AntennaPod
What I’d like to know: For anyone using some app other than AntennaPod: Why? How is it worth it?
I’ve never used Antenna Pod, but I’ve used Podcast Addict for more than a decade, I’ve paid for the pro app, and I’ve been really impressed by what it can do.
I like to have many podcasts downloaded to my phone, and Podcast addict has really granular controls for what to download and keep for how long, in the general case, and for each podcast you can dial in custom settings, for example not auto-downloading or deleting. It helps me have plenty of audio to listen to at all times without blowing up the storage on my phone.
The various automatic playlists for downloaded episodes, new episodes, and recent episodes are also very useful to me.
I’ve found the developer to be really nice and he will personally respond to bug reports and support requests if anything doesn’t go as planned.
Never heard of antennapod before I’ve just stuck with pocketcast since day one, what makes antennapod special?
The ui is clean and intuitive and it actually handles podcasts with multiple feeds (patron/free) well (other apps I’ve used were quite annoying with that). Being able to tag all your podcasts is also really nice for organization, especially if you have a lot of podcasts that you aren’t listening to every episode of. My only complaint was that the default settings are to download a podcast when you click on it instead if stream, but that is easily changed with one setting switch
I can’t say I’ve thought about how paid versions of a podcast would work on pocketcast
The settings are way too complicated and defaults are not intuitive. Took me forever to figure out how to purge old downloads I hadn’t listened to. Constant errors when trying to download. Does not want to play video podcasts as audio-only.
Fucking love that app.
I’ve used so many podcast apps including paid and have never had anything anything anything that comes CLOSE to AntennaPod. I love that it’s foss, libre, all that good stuff.
I just wish I’d tried it sooner.
Same for mobile.
Audiobookshelf.
I duct taped together some API calls and a config file to get some smart playlist features. I find it very helpful for the slow pace I listen to some podcasts. I have it set up to put daily and weekly episodes first and then serials. Super niche , but it’s just how I like to listen to my podcasts. https://github.com/TunaLobster/PyAutoABSPlaylist
I primarily use antennapod but tried abs out of curiousity. How did you get around the queue issue? I found it to be a dealbreaker
+1
Thanks! Haven’t heard of Audiobookshelf before, and that’s the kind of thing I was looking for.
Also really love that app and they use it to automatically archive podcasts in a darker container.
AntennaPod. Can allegedly sync via gpodder.net or gpoddersync. Personally never got it to work quite right, but I didn’t try very hard either.
I got mine working with sync on my nextcloud self hosted instance
Pocket Casts on Android.
