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Are there any podcasts services? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Woke_killa@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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I'm looking for a solution that will allow me to download podcasts and work like the PocketCasts app, which is perfect, but I prefer self-hosted.

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[–] Legitimate_Farm_3095@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just type "podcast" into the search box, press enter on the keyboard

[–] Woke_killa@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, you're so smart, I wrote such things on the Internet when your parents hadn't met yet.

[–] Legitimate_Farm_3095@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

lol, what a poor attempt at an insult

[–] digitalindependent@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

As an avid podcast listener I use Pocket Casts. But I have been looking for something to replace this, especially to own my listening status and save favourite episodes.

Either I haven't tried it properly enough or there simply isn't anything out there.

My experiences:

Podfetch: Very very basic, can't get Favourites to work, doesn't save specific episodes into a permanent archive, couldn't get playing to work, no mobile apps

Plex: Cancelled Podcast support two years ago

Audiobookshelf: As described by others, performance issues (I have ~117 podcasts and updating takes ages), iOS app is Testflight only and BETA is full. Wanted retest with it being only an intermediary.