Also sometimes it just literally does nothing. Push the play button and nothing at all happens.
That’s a bug with the notification/lockscreen widget AFAICT. Pressing play on the main player window should work. This is the most serious bug I’ve found. It’s quite a promising player otherwise.
I’m happy to know that Pocketcasts is OS now, that was my player of choice before trying to jump to Antennapod.
Auto-downloads work wonderfully here and can even be set per-podcast which is such a nice feature.
Not saying this to denigrate your experience but to perhaps soften the ‘is horrific’ notion into somewhat more of a ‘does not work for you’ one.
Otherwise, I suppose Pocket Casts is also open source nowadays - or has always been and I did not notice? But that was a reasonably good alternative for me as well before I switched to AntennaPod.
I use it daily and it’s great.
It has really granular controls and I only download some podcasts and even those I can cancel the auto download if it has a word reference I don’t want.
My only complaint is the syncing between devices which admittedly is not great.
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That’s a bug with the notification/lockscreen widget AFAICT. Pressing play on the main player window should work. This is the most serious bug I’ve found. It’s quite a promising player otherwise.
I’m happy to know that Pocketcasts is OS now, that was my player of choice before trying to jump to Antennapod.
Yeah, that bug is super unfortunate, it has been working flawlessly for me for years, this has only been an issue since the last update or two.
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That’s weird then. Never happened to me and I’ve used it everyday for a couple of weeks now. I wonder if the two bugs are related.
I’ve never had an issue with this. And no, I don’t know how to help you. Contacting the devs would be your best hope.
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Unfortunately, that will be a better experience than Google Podcasts in 2024. Always looking for better options. Let me know if you know of any.
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Auto-downloads work wonderfully here and can even be set per-podcast which is such a nice feature.
Not saying this to denigrate your experience but to perhaps soften the ‘is horrific’ notion into somewhat more of a ‘does not work for you’ one. Otherwise, I suppose Pocket Casts is also open source nowadays - or has always been and I did not notice? But that was a reasonably good alternative for me as well before I switched to AntennaPod.
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I use it daily and it’s great. It has really granular controls and I only download some podcasts and even those I can cancel the auto download if it has a word reference I don’t want. My only complaint is the syncing between devices which admittedly is not great.