[HN Gopher] gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client
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gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client
Author : 10729287
Score : 61 points
Date : 2022-09-20 14:23 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (gpodder.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (gpodder.github.io)
| teunispeters wrote:
| I've been using this a few years. - improving steadily - naming
| on episodes used to make sense (but this could be a podcast
| issue) - I've a bunch of podcasts (CBC News ones for instance)
| which re-download "as new" every reload. This is annoying. I
| suspect advertising has a great deal to do with it. No idea how
| to mitigate. - Could do with better handling when podcasts go
| offline or move (404 on URL)
| binarynate wrote:
| It's desktop only (no Android or iOS support) which makes me
| wonder: what percentage of overall podcast listening occurs on a
| desktop computer? Polls on this are all over the place, but I
| would guess maybe 10-15%? For me, podcast listening has always
| been an inherently mobile activity, and it would drive me nuts if
| I had podcatchers on multiple devices that were out of sync with
| each other.
| CharlesW wrote:
| > _Polls on this are all over the place, but I would guess
| maybe 10-15%?_
|
| Edison Research says that desktops/laptops account for 13% of
| listening in Q4'2021, having dropped 7% since the start of that
| year. I'd predict that it falls to under 10% by the end of
| 2022.
| NegativeLatency wrote:
| It's right there in the name "pod" cast.
|
| In the early days of podcasts I listened to them on my computer
| (downloaded over precious dial up time, where the time to
| download the episode was longer than the time required to
| listen to it), but as soon as I got an iPod they were a mobile
| thing for me.
| keb_ wrote:
| It is probably low as you presumed, but I personally try to do
| as little as possible on my phone. gPodder was great for me
| when I was actively listening to podcasts at the beginning of
| the pandemic. I appreciate the snappiness of desktop apps over
| web apps, so I'm probably the target audience.
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| I used to only listen on desktop, at work, and for a while with
| gPodder. Now I use AntennaPod on mobile and sometimes others.
| Desktop is nice when you're doing something routine and enjoy
| hearing a conversation or trivia in the background.
| freedomben wrote:
| Yes, desktop only, however there are a number of podcast apps
| that support gpodder.net syncing. I use AntennaPod on Android,
| and gPodder on Fedora desktop.
| asveikau wrote:
| I remember gpodder working well on the Nokia N900.
| marbu wrote:
| Long time ago, I used gPodder to download audio files with
| podcasts and then synced them to a mp3 player or mobile phone.
|
| Nowadays I'm using gPodder on a phone with Sailfish OS:
|
| https://openrepos.net/content/keeperofthekeys/gpodder
|
| The app is actually linked from the submitted page, but it's
| easy to miss there.
|
| I also noticed that if I create list of shows to listen to
| later, I end up listening to more interesting stuff, as I
| filter out items which are not as useful few weeks later.
| kornhole wrote:
| Antennapod is your Android client that syncs with gPodder. I
| sync with my Nextcloud add on app.
| orblivion wrote:
| When I first got into podcasts I didn't like that every client
| had a UI. I just wanted the files and use my audio player of
| choice (Music Player Daemon). So I wrote one myself. It breaks a
| lot though.
| xnx wrote:
| I'd immediately switch to any podcast app that automatically
| skips ads like the Youtube Ad Skipper Chrome extension.
| fabiandesimone wrote:
| So you don't want your favorite podcasts to sustain themselves
| at all?
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Might I humbly suggest supporting creators who offer paid, ad-
| free feeds?
|
| Full disclosure, my employer facilitates offering paid private
| feeds to podcast audiences.
| 411111111111111 wrote:
| Get sponsor block if you want to get rid of these pesky
| sponsorship messages in YouTube videos too
| bscphil wrote:
| There was some discussion about integrating SponsorBlock into
| AntennaPod (a popular open source podcast app) a while back,
| but it didn't go anywhere. Ajay (developer of SB) was very
| open to the idea, so anyone interested in developing ad
| skipping technology for podcasts should probably get in touch
| with them. I think getting a proof of concept podcast app
| that skips ads should not be all that difficult.
| mimimi31 wrote:
| I wonder if you could train some machine learning model
| using the data from SponsorBlock and achieve good results
| on podcasts as well. That way you wouldn't be dependent on
| a crowdsourced online database for your offline listening.
| Alternatively, even creating a transscript using something
| like [1] and scanning for words like "sponsor", "ad" or
| specific company names might already be a good enough
| heuristic.
|
| [1] https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api
| lebrad wrote:
| On Android, AntennaPod has excellent integration with gpodder.net
| servers (which you can self-host), and is also free software.
| vanous wrote:
| Yes, you can self host it on nextcloud server, really awesome.
| babel_ wrote:
| As the kids say: podders.
| JohnTHaller wrote:
| It's also available in PortableApps.com Format for use on locked
| work and school machines as well as external drives and cloud
| drives: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/gpodder_portable
| 10729287 wrote:
| I was looking for an open source client to reclaim my podcast
| collection and found everything I was looking for in gPodder.
| There doesn't seem to have much discussion about this great app
| in the past here, so let's discuss !
|
| I'm happy to be able to download "physical" (how ironic) copies
| of my favourites episodes in mp3 and can't wait to try to
| automatise their transfer to my fiio X3 for offline listening.
|
| Also, I can see an alternative to Youtube in this, so feel free
| to share flow if you do use gPodder for staying uptodate with
| your YT subscriptions !
| tb_technical wrote:
| Should have named it gPogger.
| trts wrote:
| Cool to see this still being developed. I used to use gPodder
| back in the 2000s to tag and organize podcasts, rename the files
| based on the feed metadata and tag the genre as 'podcast' so that
| I could segment that content on my Sansa Clip mp3 player.
|
| Sort of wish I'd more carefully archived some of those old
| episodes, especially Wiretap. In that era it felt like there less
| than a dozen high-quality podcasts and it seemed possible to
| listen to everything.
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