I think Pocket Casts has a web app
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It does and I use it all the time.
Sure does!
I use audiobookshelf for both audiobooks and podcasts. It can handle the podcast metadata well, show pictures and descriptions, track your listen progress, etc.
I think you have correctly described state of open source podcast aggregators.
While it seams like non important matter, with control YT has on content, podcast are becoming incrisingly important for me.
I’m a bit ignorant to this subject, love FOSS and have used it often over the years but have only really started wanting to use it as exclusively as possible. Is it just YT that makes a podcast RSS or aggregator difficult, seems like it wouldnt be a big ask. Sorry if this is a dumb question
I am not sure what is the question, but will try.
I don't think YT is making it difficult, just that because of YT peope are not motivated to use and, by extend, make good podcast agreggators.
Btw. IMHO Gpodder is the way to go, and connect it with some music player.
Thanks that makes some sense I think, sorry for the unclear phrasing
Liferea might be what you're looking for. It's in debian's packages and downloads/plays podcasts pretty easily.
it looks like a low-bs rss reader. nice!
Don't know much about this but have you tried Kasts?
Yes this was the winner!
Happy to hear you liked it!
I can think of three apps that I have used and liked (since you didn't mention that you tried ~~that~~ them already) Cpod, Kasts and Vocal. See if any of them works for ya
- vocal: crash on opml import
- kasts: seems to work for downloading and playing. thanks!
- cpod: not working in aur: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpod
Damn. Sorry you're going through this. See if gnome's podcasts works for ya? Btw, cpod works for me just fine on fedora. I actually just tried it. I got it as a flatpak, though Maybe try the flatpak app and see if that works? 🤞
I have settled into kasts. Thanks for the rec. :) It is simple but does the job. If my phone issues persist I will try the flatpack of cpod.
That's awesome. So glad you found something to work with :)
Maybe more setup than you want to do for a temporary solution, but I use MPD and the Cantata front end, which supports podcasts well
I know it's not what you really want, and I haven't tried it yet, but I think your best bet is probably podfetch. I don't know if you've looked into it yet, but it's basically a gpodder server with a web podcast frontend tied to it. It's the next thing I'm going to try.