Have been using it for a long while. It's great, give it a try
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Yeah, same. Just checked and my stats go back to 2016 🤯
It works so well!
This is one of those apps that i DEARLY missed when moving to an iphone. Once i am back on grapheneos, this will be one of the first apps I install.
It's pretty good, though I've found that a lot of my podcasts often repeat sections due to some bizarre glitch that has yet to be fixed.
I believe that's due to whatever ad services the creators use
This happens when you stream a podcast with automatically inserted ads of varying lengths. I assume the system swaps out an ad before you finish the stream, so your playback position gets shifted... The solution on any app is to download the full episode before playing.
I figured it was something to do with Sponsorblock or Adblock. Makes sense.
I wish we could block these ads! I've been thinking about how to build something that pulls multiple copies of the stream, compares the audio to identify the differences, then cuts out the bits that change - the ads. Someday...
Podcast Republic has the same issue.
Yes, fucking hell I thought it was just me. Lol
Right?! I also had this issue with Podcini and FocusPodcast. The only apps I've used that don't have this issue have been Podium and Podcast Guru.
Hell yeah
I love the app, but I notice that I get commercials on british podcasts in my native language. Does antennapod add its own commercials or does it enable the individual podcasts to choose language specific commercials somehow?
When Antennapod requests the episode the server can inject the ads and geolocate you based on your IP. Thus they can tailor them at the point of delivery to your region (and anything else they know/guess about your IP). Antennapod does not inject ads itself, it is at the mercy of what the podcast server returns.
There has to be some kind of geolocation going on, when I download podcasts while traveling using antennapod commercials are often in the local language.
It's based on IP, so if you use a VPN when you download episodes the commercials will be based on where your server is located
Podcast ads are dynamically injected at the time of downloading by the podcast host, based on factors such as the IP of the device downloading, and whatever other fingerprinting it can figure out at the time of download. You can see it in action by enabling a VPN through a country far away and notice the ads switching language.
AntennaPod is not adding its own ads (it's non-commercial, after all) and is not doing anything to help advertisers in their ad targeting.
The podcast provider themselves use download IP to dynamically grab ads and push them to your player.
It tags me wrong for some reason so I get French commercials even though I am in the Flemish part of Belgium.
Great app. I'd also drop a link to this project I found which acts as a drop-in replacement for gpodder. It's selfhosted, and works perfectly for syncing progress from AntennaPod.
Whish they made an iPhone app, but will get it as soon as I have a phone running GrapheneOS.