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Re:Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 by cglong on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:51AM (#37660258)
For the latter:

> The company notes that all users can listen to podcasts on-demand, offline, in the background, and while casting

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Re:Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 by yrro on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:59AM (#37660368)
Yeah, for now. I used to be able to split my screen and have YouTube running in the background while in other apps, until they took that away in an update.
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Re:Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 by cglong on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:29PM (#37663739)
As a free user on Android, I'm able to use YT in PiP mode with any non-music video. Also FWIW, I doubt YT Music will ever have enough monopolistic control over the podcast industry to take away such fundamental functionality.
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Re:Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 by yrro on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:33AM (#37671350)
Picture-in-Picture requires a YouTube Premium subscription outside the US.
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