Does this mean YouTube Podcasts is ready for prime time?
  • TDCN@feddit.dkEnglish
    16·
    7 months ago

    Google is making easier and easier for me to degoogle my life. Bit by bit I change to foss apps and never look back

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      I’m so mad at them for this. I love the simplicity of Google Podcasts.

      Between YouTube getting worse all the time, the insane bloat YouTube Music now, the utter uselessness of Google search, and Assistant getting worse each year, I’m basically done with Google.

      They’re just… Too big for their own good that they don’t know how to make good products anymore.

      • TDCN@feddit.dkEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        Antennapod is what I use now. Works just as well as Google podcasts.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Now, a new support article details Google’s plans to kill the product, with a shutdown coming in April 2024.

    I think all the core podcast features exist somewhere, but they are buried in several menus.

    There are more podcast-centric features sequestered away in YouTube Music, where a button with the very confusing label “Save to library” will subscribe to a podcast feed.

    Music is a different interface, site, and app, so none of these billions of YouTube viewers are seeing these podcast features.

    But this is the future of Google’s podcast content, so the company is plowing ahead with it.

    If you’re looking to get off Google’s wild ride and want something straightforward that works across platforms, I recommend Pocket Casts.

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  • Ejh3k@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    Just use podcast addict. It’s the best one out there. Been using it for a decade, zero complaints.