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Re:Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19... by zouhair on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:04AM (#23220888)
I have yet to find better then AntennaPod[0]

[0]: https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/

Re:Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19... by mdaniel on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:08PM (#23239532)
I'm glad it works for you. I actually tried to switch in an effort to "more FOSS" my life and ended up compiling a concrete list of usability problems that made using Antenna Pod frustrating for me. And that "usability" word has traditionally been the difference in my life between a commercial product and a FOSS one

* Podcast Addict offers auto skip intro seconds, auto skip outro seconds -- and the seconds setting is per podcast

* P.A. offers "stop after episode" if the sleep timer is active, and also allows not marking the episode as played if that "artificial stop" is active

* in Antenna Pod, "delete and remove from queue" does not clear it from the now playing bar

* the "auto download" appears to be opt-in, not opt-out, meaning one must set it for all 85 podcasts

* the bamboo menu doesn't include "delete" for an episode

* and a few more UI nits that bugged me

This isn't a rant, but rather an observation that the Podcast Addict developer wakes up every day thinking about how to make P.A. better, and that doesn't seem to be true for Antenna Pod