I use Funkwhale for my music collection and had my podcasts in there for a while. However, I ended up not listening to my podcasts very much since they were hidden among my much larger music collection.

So I moved my podcasts feeds to FreshRSS, which I was already using for RSS feeds. I like the simplicity of using something that I already had, but it doesn’t have any podcast-specific features like being able to resume where you left off.

Do you have any podcast listening apps that you like?

*edit: I should add that I originally meant “self-hostable applications for storing your podcast subscriptions,” but these phone app recommendations are great to have, too. I might just ditch the server-side of this entirely and just use a separate app on my devices for listening. It would be nice if I only had to subscribe in one place and be able to pick up where I left off across multiple devices, though.

  • bladewdr@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’ve actually been fighting with this since yesterday.

    Pocket Casts is one of my last things that I’m not self-hosting, and I’m trying to change that.

    My list of requirements was:

    1. Multi-device sync
    2. Be able to play seamlessly from either a web UI or my mobile device, picking up where I left off on either device.

    For my Gpodder backend I chose to use the GpodderSync NextCloud app, since I’m already running NextCloud.

    I tried PinePods and PodFetch for the web interface, both of which had various issues with sync.

    Supposedly there’s a big update to sync coming for PinePods in a couple days, but I wasn’t able to get it working at all.

    PodFetch has its own internal gpodder server implementation, but for the life of me, I could not get it to keep listen state in sync. Also, I initially set it up to use OIDC authentication since I’m also running Authentik - but don’t try to do that if you want to use the Gpodder integration. The two are essentially mutually exclusive, at least in its current state.

    What I’ve settled on for the moment:

    1. AntennaPod for mobile playback. (Be aware that there are additional steps for Android Auto support if you install it from F-Droid as I did)
    2. NextCloud GpodderSync to keep track of listen state and subscriptions.
    3. NextCloud NextPod app for web UI playback. I’m not exactly happy with this, as it’s a very ugly and basic UI, but it does work, and it does keep track of where I left off the way I want. Hopefully the PinePods update fixes my issues with it, as the web interface for that was much more slick.