Rule of Google: if it works, kill it.

I know, I know, using Google apps isn’t the best, but this was a perfectly good Podcast app with all the features you might want.

Apparently they’re moving everything over to YouTube Music, where a lot of the features of Google Podcasts aren’t implemented yet.

I’ve moved over to an app from F-Droid.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    So I’ve been using it on YouTube music and now podcasts suck just as much as when it had Google Music merged.

    Now when i just want to listen to my single daily morning podcast, I have to remember to turn the damn thing off because it constantly wants to autoplay random podcasts I have no desire to listen to in the first place. Just ends up throwing my mood off for the day sometimes when it plays some crap that annoys me.

  • rbesfe@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Friendly reminder that YouTube music STILL doesn’t have the ability to sort songs in a playlist alphabetically

  • niisyth@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    How else are they gonna half ass implement that into youtube and make that shit bloated af.

    It has long form content, Tiktok clone, Main music delivery system, Twitch clone, And now, Podcasts.

    👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

    • Muffi@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Switched to Antennapod when abandoning Spotify recently. It’s been great! Way better interface than Spotify’s embarrassingly horrible UI.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Fine. I finally installed f-droid, because while I don’t listen to a lot of podcasts, I am trying to listen to more, and YT Music is ass for finding new podcasts.

      Please give me recommendations for more podcasts that may like based on what I got

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        TrashFuture is great if you want to be amused/depressed by tech journalist news.

        Lions Led By Donkeys is a great war history podcast series.

        Neither have ads, which I really value in any podcast. Probably the only reason I don’t subscribe to BtB.

  • youngalfred@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I don’t really understand how they consistently manage to screw things up. And they always say that the features are coming, but they never do.

    I’m still bitter over Inbox.

    I used to be excited about new things from Google. Tried to get into every beta, downloaded the newest released apps etc. But not anymore.

    I just read about tasks being removed from Google Keep. Then the feature removal from nest hubs. Do they have a unified strategy at all? Or is it just the whims of a manager’s daily musings that drive what development does?

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      It’s a company culture thing. You’re not rewarded for maintaining or finishing products. You are rewarded for starting new ones.

      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        You’re not rewarded for maintaining or finishing products.

        No kidding.

        It is 2024, and here is your yearly reminder that you still can’t create a new folder/label in the official Gmail Android app despite the online documentation implying that you can.

  • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I just ignore any new Google service these days. Unreliability isn’t even as much of a concern as privacy.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I moved to Podcast Republic, and sometimes AntennaPod, on Android, Downcast on iPhone, and just import the OPML from one of those into gpodder to listen on desktop/laptop.

    No accounts or other BS to keep up with, just the latest OPML export. Much nicer, and no one can take it away from me or “shut the service down” in the future.

  • A_Porcupine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    This is weird marketing, why not just say “we’re merging Google podcast and YouTube music into one app”?

  • pjwestin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Yeah, this was the only Google product that I really liked, and of course they’re killing it just to force people to use YouTube Music. AntennaPod is an open-source alternative that functions very similarly, I’ve been using it for a couple of months now and I’m very happy with it.

  • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    This is exactly why I never started using this app. Not worth investing my time. Still on Pocket Casts for years

  • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Googles antics with its service killing is what lead me to trying out the Apple walled garden.

    Now I just need to quit Gmail somehow, sometime.

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    To be fair, I don’t see the point of this app existing when YouTube Music (and, naturally—by extention—YTM ReVanced) already has a dedicated podcast section. No need for redundant apps.

    • toddestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      The old Podcast app was simple, it did one thing, and it did it well. YouTube Music seems to be trying to do a dozen different things, and it does a shit job of all of them.

  • HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    Podcast Addict is THE feature rich podcast client. A boatload of features and if it doesn’t do what you need you request it in the support site.

    It has its issues: closed source (if that matters to you), I’ve read that there are trackers, and ads, but it’s still the best podcast app out there, hands down.