Podcasts

655 readers

21 users here now

A place for all podcast lovers to come together and discuss the medium, find recommendations and talk about podcasts they have created.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

hotwarioinyourarea

LibertyLizard

Fuck Apple Podcasts (lemmy.nz)

submitted 6 hours ago by dragonfucker@lemmy.nz to c/podcasts

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Drag and drag’s friends have all been listening to a new podcast lately. One of drag’s friends is an iPhone user, and bot only just got around to listening to episode 1 of the podcast today. Except… bot didn’t.

Drag sent thing a link to the podcast on Spotify, which drag and the rest of us use, but bot decided to use Apple Podcasts instead. Bot told the show to play from oldest to newest. So naturally, Apple decided to start on Season 7 Episode 1, and cover the season indicator with an ad, so bot thought bot was on season 1.

This is atrocious. What kind of app covers its own important information with ads? Bot’s been given a bunch of spoilers and had no way of knowing, except for the fact bot should have known not to trust Apple.

Drag hopes that nobody ever uses that terrible app again. Drag was looking forward to vicariously experiencing the early episodes through thing and talking about the show with ALL of drag’s friends. Now it looks like that might not happen. Drag’s furious.

top 1 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Donk 5 points 5 hours ago

fuck apple podcasts AND spotify, and all big tech bullshit. there are podcast apps that you can just add things to that don't feed the beast. https://antennapod.org/ for instance is FOSS, or pocket casts which has a small sub but remembers your place in things across devices including the webpage, or https://podverse.fm/ which I haven't used but was recommended, it does the same. pocketcasts.com. You should also be able to use any RSS reader, unless the cast is exclusive somewhere or uses some kind of funky ATOM syndication. hope that helps