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AntennaPod – The Open Podcast Player (antennapod.org)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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AntennaPod is a podcast player that is completely open. The app is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers without commercial interest, so it respects your privacy while giving you full control.

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[–] 20 points 4 months ago

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.

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    [–] 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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    • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Hell yeah

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    [–] 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    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.

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    • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Whish they made an iPhone app, but will get it as soon as I have a phone running GrapheneOS.

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    [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    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.

    https://github.com/oxtyped/gpodder2go

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