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Migrating from Google Podcasts to AntennaPod: why and how to do it – AntennaPod (antennapod.org)

submitted 2 years ago by ericjmorey@programming.dev to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

Antenna Pod is 10/10.

[–] penquin@lemmy.kde.social 9 points 2 years ago

Been using AntennaPod for 2 years now. Amazing app.

[–] sim642@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Visit takeout.google.com and select Google Podcasts to export your Google Podcasts data in OPML format.

I wonder when that became a thing. I migrated at the beginning of the year and had to manually add all subscriptions because Google Podcasts had no way of exporting anything.

I guess someone made a GDPR complaint.

[–] Carter@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I use AntennaPod as it's the best Foss option but it's very buggy.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I never had a single bug, please report bugs?

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

That's my experience too. Never seen a single bug or crash.

[–] Carter@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For me it just never shows the correct play time so podcasts will get to the end in app but still have like 10 minutes left to play. Also it has a habit of randomly skipping back 10 seconds every now and then.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Never had this issue with lots of sources

[–] Greenpepper@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I liked it but until an annoying bug drove me to Podverse which is also pretty good.

[–] randomivysaur@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I don't see any, apart from the fact that AntennaPod's persistent notification for media playback doesn't respond if you leave it for too long. Have you tried Escapepod btw?

[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

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[–] marty_relaxes@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Auto-downloads work wonderfully here and can even be set per-podcast which is such a nice feature.

Not saying this to denigrate your experience but to perhaps soften the 'is horrific' notion into somewhat more of a 'does not work for you' one. Otherwise, I suppose Pocket Casts is also open source nowadays - or has always been and I did not notice? But that was a reasonably good alternative for me as well before I switched to AntennaPod.

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[–] scrooge@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use it daily and it's great. It has really granular controls and I only download some podcasts and even those I can cancel the auto download if it has a word reference I don't want. My only complaint is the syncing between devices which admittedly is not great.

[–] marty_relaxes@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

That is a little of how I use it too - I have all podcasts set to download automatically globally (set it up to 25 episodes at the same time) and put them in my queue so I always have exactly 25 episodes to listen to in any order there each day.

Then there are 2 daily podcasts that I do not let automatically download (but automatically refresh, and I love that the app delineates between the two), however one regularly produces longer episodes including a lot of the shorter ones that I do let it automatically download. Huh, I never realized how advanced the setup actually is. Though I do remember the actual 'setting up' being relatively painless after getting to grips with the global/per-podcast difference.

Also, fwiw I have the synchronization set up using one of the self-hosted options instead of the default gpodder service - which is often down intermittently - and it works well enough, even if a bit slow every now and again.

[–] mudeth@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also sometimes it just literally does nothing. Push the play button and nothing at all happens.

That's a bug with the notification/lockscreen widget AFAICT. Pressing play on the main player window should work. This is the most serious bug I've found. It's quite a promising player otherwise.

I'm happy to know that Pocketcasts is OS now, that was my player of choice before trying to jump to Antennapod.

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, that will be a better experience than Google Podcasts in 2024. Always looking for better options. Let me know if you know of any.

[–] Xero@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've never had an issue with this. And no, I don't know how to help you. Contacting the devs would be your best hope.

[–] aedyr@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This has been a great alternative for me so far. Very straightforward and functional.

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I'm also looking into podverse

[–] brambledog@lemmy.today 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Antennapod is good enough and has a widget, but to be honest, it needs to be a lot better.

They need to implement podcast discovery. Just showing 20 separate podcasts with nothing else is clearly not enough.

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lack of discovery is the least of my issues with AntennaPod, but that would be nice too.

[–] YeeHaw@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So people are actually using Google Podcasts? It's a pretty shit app for the use case.

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

How so? It has fit my use case better than any other podcast app in the last 15 years.

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

It's so basic, which is precisely why I like it.

[–] YeeHaw@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Ok, I just revisited it after a few years, and it seems kinda decent now, altho it's still pretty ugly. Back when I first tried it when it launched, it was as barebones as it could be. Adding new podcasts sucked, it had no trim silence option, no web app etc. Still tho, Pocket Casts is ahead of it even today.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

not for long since it's being shut down in 2024 :P

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I never understand why people choose formats meant for local consumption and then use centralized cloud services to consume it. Podcasts aren't the only example. RSS feed readers and git are others. If you want synchronization across devices, then use either a plain cloud storage or something even better - like syncthing.

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Syncthing? How can I use syncthing to mimic the behavior of google podcasts?

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 3 points 2 years ago

I've been listening to Podcasts lately and went straight to Google Podcasts, Love the Platform sad to see it go. Will be looking for another platform that can allow me to listen both on PC as well as Phone, This is sadly not it as doesn't seem to have a Desktop app / site

[–] FQQD@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

works fine

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use podverse. Technically, you could use google podcasts like a search engine and just subscribe directly to the podcast's rss feed.

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I've been trying out podverse since another commenter mentioned it. I didn't know about it before.