5 minute ad breaks every 15 minutes kinda ruin the experience.
If it's one of the podcasts that uses a service to auto-insert ads, you can always change your VPN to a country that wouldn't be relevant and it'll usually download without ads. It almost always works if I set mine to Japan or Thailand.
Huh, TIL that is how the ads worked with Podcasts... Does it transcode the audio file?
It is funny to have Spanish ads while I listen to English podcasts lol (native language is Spanish).
Obviously, the live read ads by the podcast hosts will still be there, but yep, the other ads are all usually targeted ones inserted when you download it. Once it's downloaded, you can change your VPN back to wherever so you don't have to deal with every site defaulting to Thai or Japanese lol.
This works better than the "skip x seconds" idea others have since some podcasts have mid-show ads, too.
Podcasts are a leftover from the non centralized and non-monetized internet of the past. Because is that most Podcasts are still available as rss feeds, so you should only ever get adds if they are spoken by the Podcasts hosts. Ate you taking about those? Only something like sponsorblock would help against those. I use antennapod (fdroid) on android to listen to Podcasts. Sine hosts always start their podcast with an add, but you can autoskip the first minute of a certain podcast with antennapod every time. It has a setting for that. Antenna pod itself is foss software without adds.
Yeah, any decent podcast app that has a 10s / 15s time skip is the only reliable way to deal with ads. Just skip ahead a few times until the ad is over.
If there were a reliable way to auto-skip ads then ads would lose all their value which could shut down some of our favorite podcasts. It sucks that ads are a necessary evil for podcasting, but there is no clean way around that unless we dismantled capitalism and switched to some hybrid of market socialism and public funding
If the podcast is available on YouTube, Newpipe does the job brilliantly and you even have forks/options to skip sponsor ads too.
God, I wish there was. If there is, I haven’t found it. And I’ve been looking
It's not quite the same, but Pocket Casts lets you customize how many seconds the skip buttons go forward and back by, which can at least make it a little less tedious
Antennapod has the same function and many more, and is free(as in beer and freedom)/libre
I can rly recommend it since it doesn't lock features behind a paywall and respects your privacy
I'll have to look into that. I switched to Pocket Casts years ago specifically for the cross-platform sync feature, and haven't really given it any thought since lol
This is desperately needed.
I saw sponsorblock-ml and am playing with it using whisperx for transcript/timestamps and ffmpeg for cutting out the timestamps that were detected by sponsorblock-ml then reserving that audio as an rss feed.
It's not great so far though
Does this happen on iOS too? I listen to podcasts every night for an hour and never hear any ads except for the ones encoded with the file, ie sponsor ads.
I think they might be referring to a specific Poscast. They're generally free and finding one that doesn't have ads is easy. If it was Spotify they would have asked for Spotify.
And OP is it is Spotify and you're on amdroid there's patches apks that block ads.
Edit: Holy fuck my grammar is bad.
If they have a YouTube version I use https://www.podtube.me/ to make an RSS feed and put it in my Podcast player of choice.
If it's on YouTube, then Sponsorblock will work on it as well. (Given someone has marked the sections, which is almost always)
i use YouTube Music Revanced and I've never gotten any ads for my podcasts
