So I’m in the process of switching from Spotify to Tidal for my music streaming (since Tidal pays artists like three times more than Spotify does). The only problem is, Tidal doesn’t support podcasts, which is another big thing I used Spotify for.
So what are some good apps for podcasts? I listen both on my PC and my Android phone, and I’m not really thrilled about the idea of paying for another subscription (so now I’m making two payments to cover the functionality I got with a single, cheaper payment). I’m cool with paying a one-time up-front fee, though.
Any suggestions?
I use Pocket Casts, but I paid for the “plus” upgrade before it was a subscription. Nowadays if I didn’t have that option I’d probably just use either Google Podcasts, or if you have a NextCloud instance available to use somewhere, then something like GPodder Sync + NextPod on the server/web side and AntennaPod should allow you to keep things in sync.
Edit: Err scratch that, I just set this up on my NextCloud instance, and while it syncs with AntennaPod and Kasts a KDE/Linux app - the actual web app on NextCloud doesn’t seem to allow you to play podcasts through the browser, it’ll only let you see your subscriptions and any sync actions done recently. You’d still need a PC app that is compatible with GPodder Sync in order for you to listen in on your PC.
Apologies about that! Someone had told me about this setup a bit ago, and I noted it down to give it a try later on - I definitely should’ve tested it before mentioning it here.
But all is not lost - GPodder looks to have a release for all of the PC platforms, and is compatible with the gpodder.net sync service (which is what the nextcloud apps are based off of) and AntennaPod can still use that sync backend as well.
Are you sure NextPod can’t play the episodes? Because it lists it as a feature on their github https://github.com/pbek/nextcloud-nextpod
Ah, well now I feel silly. I didn’t notice the triple dot menu button at the end of the “Episodes” entries. However, it does look like you can only do this from a podcast you’ve already started playing from elsewhere, bringing up the “Podcasts” section and clicking the menu buttons on each podcast only lets me view the podcast’s home page, or its RSS feed directly (instead of letting me see a list of episodes and choosing one from said list).
So it seems like you could do Mobile (start episode) -> Web (resume episode, then pause again) -> Mobile (finish episode) but you can’t do Web (start episode) -> …
However I could be of course overlooking something again 😅
I tried it out today and came to the same conclusion. It’s not possible to use it as a standalone player unfortunately