Updated Pocket Casts to the latest beta (7.97-rc-1) and got these stupid fucking banner ads on top

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    8 hours ago

    i still have a lifetime plus account from when i originally paid for the web version in beta otherwise i’d have moved on to audiobookshelf

    • RxBrad@infosec.pubEnglish
      5·
      8 hours ago

      I really like Audiobookshelf for audiobooks.

      But it breaks my brain that it still hasn’t implemented some sort of automatic queueing of new podcast episodes. Every time you finish a podcast episode, you need to manually go into the app and find the next episode to play. Not ideal for when you’re driving…

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      What’s wrong with Automattic? I don’t know them at all.

      Got a suggestion for an app that works on Android in my car? (Not Android Auto, but it’s Android based so can run Android apps. It’s a Volvo.)

      • pishadoot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Maybe try podcast addict, been using it for years and it’s just got constant development. I donated to them because I hate subscriptions and I’ve gotten a lot of value from it.

        Free version only has ads on the search page as far as I can tell, and it’s just a couple recommended casts.

        • blackris@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          6 minutes ago

          You know, it is not really a free version if they give you ads. Why not donate to foss? AntwnnaPod is really great.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          I’m mainly interested in an app that can sync between devices. Non-commercial apps rarely do this. 😞

    • doleo@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Thanks for the recommendation. I checked it out and it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for.

  • misery mansion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    11 hours ago

    Stopped using it years ago when they redesigned it completely. I remember people HATED it, but they really did make it worse.

    I use Podcast Addict instead which isn’t perfect but looks like it has more features that I use than Antenna Pod

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I paid for Pocket Casts years ago. Then shortly after, they announced it was going to be free. I think I got a refund. Don’t remember.

      I can’t say I’m surprised at this decision to stuff it with ads. Gotta pay for development somehow, and unfortunately they took the easy route, i.e. data collection and ads.

    • Perspectivist@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

      I don’t even remember what they did when I bailed. Some redesign thing close to a decade ago. I’ve been using Podcast Republic ever since as it resembles what Pocket Cast was like before they screwed it up.

  • skoberlink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    10 hours ago

    I would like to switch to another app, preferably FOSS, but I haven’t found another decent one that has the filters feature from PocketCasts. This is the feature that lets you apply a preset filter to the total list of episodes. I use it to auto-build a queue of just certain podcasts, instead of all of my subscriptions.

    Any chance someone has seen that feature elsewhere?

    • baatliwala@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      8 hours ago

      Pocket Casts client is actually open source, server is not AFAIK.

      I am very curious if they are going to implement something like Google Ads in the future because I don’t recall any open source app ever having third party ads. Right now there is only a banner ad to subscribe to Premium but on clicking the X button there is an option to “report ad” so surely they are getting third party ads? I have seen locked down features with premium version having full features, but never ads really. Maybe the MPL license they have chosen is very lenient in that way.

      If someone forks the app and creates a fully FOSS version I will be fine using that.

      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        OMG thank you for that knowledge! I’ve been putting off building a podcast server for years because I couldn’t be arsed learning some front end framework.

    • xylol@leminal.spaceEnglish
      4·
      8 hours ago

      Podcast addict has a ton of filters I remember using.

      I set it up so a news podcast would be like tier one so each morning it played first then after it was over it would move down to what was in progress in tier two in the queue then when those finished it’d go down the list by tier

  • florge@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    12 hours ago

    This day was always going to come, I’ve got them as well. Maybe it’s time to look at something like PinePods, since it was only the cross device syncing keeping me using pocket casts.