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z------------- / CPod

(UNMAINTAINED) A simple, beautiful podcast app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Apache License 2.0
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"Please use alternatives." ... Such as? #261

Open Uzukii opened 8 months ago

Uzukii commented 8 months ago

The reason I use CPod is because it's not tied to an app on my phone like Spotify. I can download my podcasts as basic, unencrypted MP3s and use them in whatever app I want. Which in my case, is an audiobook reader on my phone or WMP on PC. What other alternatives do that?

z------------- commented 8 months ago

The gPodder podcast client runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux and also lets you download podcasts as basic audio files, so it might be worth a try.

Uzukii commented 8 months ago

Tried it, gPodder sucks. Had to make a registry edit just to change the download directory... And then it creates individual folders inside that for every podcast you're subscribed to. Doesn't make it easy to add/find new podcasts and when you do download an episode, the file name for the MP3 is randomly generated. The app is worse than Spotify. It's such a damn shame, CPod is so simple yet so efficient compared to everything else I've tried that needlessly overcomplicates the process of finding stuff to listen to.

ben2talk commented 8 months ago

CPod is dead.

gPodder sync fails, and it's just ancient.

Kasts is great though ;) far superior to Cpod.

However, simply adding Podcasts to a feed reader also works perfectly.

leighsmith commented 8 months ago

Kasts only seems to support KDE on Linux, no support for MacOS and incomplete support on Windows. CPod, for all it's faults (which are nearly entirely because no-one can devote the time to support it) is cross-platform.

ben2talk commented 8 months ago

No, CPod doesn't support anything - it's dead.

Also, Feeds support all platforms and there's no need to download except on the actual device you are using.

So my favourite is Kasts on desktop, but 'Podcasts' works great on iOS.

Uzukii commented 8 months ago

I've never used a RSS feed reader so I'll have to look into that. I prefer to have an app on my PC that can download podcasts over one on my phone. Ever since CPod started messing up on certain feeds (refusing the download episodes) I've had to start going to the podcast's Youtube channel and manually downloading the audio track myself. It's cumbersome that way but at least the files don't come with unsolicited ads spliced into them from the feeds.

ben2talk commented 8 months ago

Open Inoreader in Firefox, get the add-on. Open your Youtube channel, select 'videos' and then hit the Inoreader addon, add it to your 'Youtube' or whatever folder. Here's the feed for '60 Minutes' channel:

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ben2talk commented 7 months ago

https://www.linuxlinks.com/kasts-convergent-podcast-software/