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What do you use for listening to podcasts? (feddit.online)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by tuckerm@feddit.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[-] j0ester@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

There seems to be a lot of fun checking out Podcast apps, but I couldn’t find a lot of these on iOS App Store sigh

[-] tuckerm@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago

I'm guessing that most iPhone users just use Apple Podcasts, and Apple themselves probably want it that way. (E.g. less promotion of third-party podcast apps on the app store.)

[-] solrize@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I just download the mp3 and play it with mplayer. Don't need no apps.

[-] nimmo@social.nimmog.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm quite happy with audiobookshelf. Sometimes I'm in the mood to listen to a book, sometimes I fancy a podcast and audiobookshelf let's me do both with little fuss. (and it has oidc support for authentication which means I now authenticate with my single sign on solution)

[-] BackwardsUntoDawn@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

feedbin, I just use the web app on my phone/laptop

[-] Legume5534@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I don't understand the point of self hosting for podcasts. The whole point of podcasts is being able to stream or download them directly from the source.

Until someone makes a self-hosted podcast caching server that can strip the embedded ads using AI, I'll have no idea why people do it.

[-] zingo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I used to use Airsonic. Suporte auto downloads of podcast episodes.

It worked for me as I mostly listens to music and 1 or 2 podcasts once and a while. Not listened to podcast for a while so might use just Antenna Pod.

I have also moved on from Airsonic to LMS (Lightweight Music Server) and use Ultrasonic on mobile.

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