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Sponsorblock for Podcasts (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As someone who aggressively adblocks everything, one of the final places that ads can still reach me is in annoying ad reads within podcasts. Youtube sponsorblock is incredible but it seems no one has yet adapted this for podcasts. Has anyone else managed to find a solution here? As far as i can tell in my googleing, this doesn't yet exist. Anyone else extremely interested in something that skips/removes sponsor segments from podcasts?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

since podcasts are I think just RSS feeds of audio files (mp3 for those I've checked) the ads aren't in any way marked in the stream. The only thing I've found is adjusting the skip buttons in antennapod so that skip fwd does 10 seconds, and back does 5; that seems to let me avoid listening to most of the ad; tap fwd until it's back in material, then back once.

But I listen to a lot less podcasts; if I want hands- and eyes-free material I'm more likely to use TTS in my (text) RSS feed reader of choice, currently Feeder.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean people said this about SponsorBlock, but it turns out you can crowd source the timestamps... If you built an easy enough UI.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Or maybe AI can generate those timestamps.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Antennapod also has an option to skip the first X seconds of a pod and the last X seconds. It's really useful when an episode starts with 3 minutes of ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Podcast republic has this ability too