Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music ( techcrunch.com )

treefrog , 9 months ago

Nah, I’ll migrate to podbean or something else that allows me to listen with the app minimized.

sanpo , 9 months ago

Does Google Podcasts really not support that? Because that’s like… the basics.

narwhalperson , 9 months ago

It used to. They paywalled it with YouTube premium.

radix , 9 months ago

The current Podcasts app does, but Youtube doesn’t unless you pay for premium. After the migration, if that policy doesn’t change, google’s platform of the week will be useless for podcasts.

dojan , 9 months ago

YouTube Music is a different app altogether, on mobile devices at least.

dept , 9 months ago

YouTube music allows background playback

Matt OP , 9 months ago

Google Podcasts does, but background play is a premium feature on YouTube Music.

treefrog , 9 months ago

Podcasts does but not YouTube unless you pay for a subscription

cbarrick , 9 months ago

YouTube Music allows the app to be minimized, AFAIK.

It’s standard YouTube (non-premiun) that requires the app to be in the foreground.

Shihali , 9 months ago

Seems to vary depending on whether I’m attempting to listen to music on my device (“attempting to” is the right word as it takes 15 seconds to load each individual song as it goes through a playlist) or listen to a YouTube video. It can go further into the background if it’s music on my device, no further back than a big window drawn over the screen if it’s a podcastable video, and must be in the foreground for a video IIRC.

mosiacmango , 9 months ago

Its a but hacky, but if you disable the youtube app, install firefox and then its “video background player” addon, you can listen to youtube videos/music minimized without paying.

I_Miss_Daniel , 9 months ago

Share to - - > Newpipe Sponsorblock also works.

jeena , 9 months ago

Is there sponsorblock on the phone?

moitoi , 9 months ago

Yes, on Android:

• Firefox/Fennec/fork of Firefox + Sponsorblock
• Newpipe Sponsorblock
• Youtube Revanced

jeena , 9 months ago

I wonder why uBlock Origin blocks revanced:

https://jemmy.jeena.net/pictrs/image/35c5f85d-775b-40c1-8a57-c59e495822f9.jpeg

moitoi , 9 months ago

Because it’s not the right webpage. The official page is revanced.app or you can directly go to the github.

jeena , 9 months ago

I see it’s not the official website, interesting.

moitoi , 9 months ago

There are multiple fake website. The team can’t do much about them. Revanced is a manager and people have to patch the APK on their phones.

Any apk people can found isn’t official.

jeena , 9 months ago

Thanks for this, now I have sponsorblock on the phone and on the TV also, very cool!

moitoi , 9 months ago

No problem, the youtube experience without adblock and sponsorblock is bad. If you have AndroidTV, SmartTube is a thing.

jeena , 9 months ago

Yeah, that’s what I installed, it’s really good! I just wosh something simmilar would exist for PeerTube too.

Sicklad , 9 months ago

Or install YouTube revanced, and get rid if ads too.

visor841 , 9 months ago

You can also use YouTube in desktop mode in Firefox

macarthur_park , 9 months ago

You can use the YouTube music app with a standard (free) YouTube account, at least on iOS. But the audio only keeps playing in the background if you pay for YouTube music. And I think you can’t download music to play offline.

For what it’s worth, YouTube Premium ($14/ month) includes YouTube music and removes ads for YouTube.

EngineerGaming , 9 months ago

Yt-dlp, Ublock Origin and Newpipe all cost $0 tho

macarthur_park , 9 months ago

Having YouTube premium means I can use it on any platform. I can use YouTube music on my phone with CarPlay and listen while driving, use the built-in YouTube app that hotel TVs have when I travel for work, watch things on my work computer, on my phone, or using my PS5.

revv , 9 months ago

InnerTune. No ads, no account. Minimize/do what you want.

treefrog , 9 months ago

Thanks! I’m installing it now.