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Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.

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[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Every single thing I use gets changed, ruined, shut down, canceled, moved, merged. It never ends.

Wound up giving up and using Google podcast BECAUSE other ones I used kept getting shut down.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Pocket Casts has been reliable for me for years. I don't even use their pro features, but I pay anyway because it's so cheap. Highly recommended.

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I will never shut up about pocket casts. Their multi-device sync is wonderful. I can pick up where I left off on any episode from any of their apps. They've even got a pretty decent UWP app that I use on my Windows installs. They also have rock solid Chromecast support.

I loved it so much I bought the lifetime pass a long time ago. At any rate, I can't recommend pocket casts enough!

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I need to check out the lifetime pass price, thanks for reminding me!

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I believe they stopped offering it some time ago. :(

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Awh man. Oh well, I'll keep paying.

[–] hayalci@fstab.sh 1 points 11 months ago

it seems antennapod recently got the play state sync feature using gpoddersync.

[–] pazzeda@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Another great app for podcasts I can recommend is Podcast Addict. Free and it's full of great features.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

To clarify, Pocket Casts is also free. 👍 I just recommend supporting them because the pro price is so cheap.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Supported!

[–] kirk782@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cheap? Unless someone snagged Pocketcasts when it was still a one off payment app, it is NOT cheap. Heck, I can pay for YouTube Premium, Spotify Premium and still have money left for one more streaming service to plug into before I hit what Pocketcasts wants me to pay. The app is good but it is the very antithesis of cheap.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Wow, that's odd.

I'm paying 119 SEK/year for the Plus tier, which is the result of a price raise some time ago as well. But I see now that it's 533 SEK/year all of a sudden for new customers.

Still, that's not too expensive, honestly. If you need the features, it's pretty good.

I don't, so I won't pay that amount of my account is put on that price point...

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you for ideas to look into.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

My pleasure!

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Way of the world. At least the churn of enshitification means we get some new good stuff for a little while.