I’ve been warming up to switching to GrapheneOS for months. Last month I bought a Pixel 8 (which is the buggiest effing phone I’ve ever owned, good job Google). I’ve just been waiting to have the bandwidth.
But with Google sunsetting Google Podcasts, I’ve decided to make time next week. Podcasts are a MAJOR part of my daily functioning.
Hard disagree, unless I’m missing something. I just set up ABS in the last week to have all of my podcasts self hosted along with my audiobook collection. So far, I’ve seen multiple features missing that make it untenable for podcasts on my phone, including:
App on my phone doesn’t auto-download episodes
App doesn’t autoplay the next episode
Default sort is newest first, haven’t figured out how to permanently set it to oldest first
No automatic playlist of all episodes of a series downloaded
I like it for audiobooks, but the podcast side feels very much like an afterthought. I’ll probably be moving to another podcast platform at some point. ABS is usable for podcasts, but at this point I wouldn’t recommend it for that feature unless they’re ok with lack of standard features or already have it set up.
Yeah I think you might be missing something tbh. My Audiobookshelf auto downloads new episodes, playlist features work fine, sort features work fine. I don’t know if there’s a way to throw every downloaded but not yet listened to episode in a playlist, but I haven’t ever needed that feature. For keeping up with my podcasts though across platforms and for all my day to day podcast needs it has excelled.
Is it downloading them to your app, or just to your server? My server downloads just fine, I’ve just had a couple instances where I haven’t been able to continue what I was listening to after leaving the house.
As for playlists, I really don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I created one playlist but it was more work to use than just using the feed. Haven’t been able to get it to play next tracks on podcasts at all, which has been rather frustrating. Might just be an issue with the app.