Doesn’t anyone listen to podcasts anymore? Most of my RSS feeds are podcasts. I also self-host the audiobooks in my LAN as podcast feeds. Makes listening through a large book series when my podcast app can manage the files, saves space because I don’t need to keep more files on my phone than I can listen to in a day or two. Not a fan of audible. A fan of libraries, but the various apps they use to lend digital files like ebooks and audiobooks SUUUCK.
If you are into selfhosting you could checkout audiobookshelf which allows you to stream podcasts and audiobooks from your own server and manage their metadata
I don’t want to stream from my server though since I almost never listen to audiobooks while connected to WiFi. Podcast apps are already setup to manage syncing files for offline listening, most are well suited to work with Bluetooth and Android Auto. Podcast apps tend to be more mature and less troublesome than something new like audiobookshelf. Plus, if I get fed up with one podcast app I can just switch to another because RSS is standard. I don’t want another suite of software managing a metadata database. Getting the metadata correct in the files and utilizing an open standard is much more future proof.
Doesn’t anyone listen to podcasts anymore? Most of my RSS feeds are podcasts. I also self-host the audiobooks in my LAN as podcast feeds. Makes listening through a large book series when my podcast app can manage the files, saves space because I don’t need to keep more files on my phone than I can listen to in a day or two. Not a fan of audible. A fan of libraries, but the various apps they use to lend digital files like ebooks and audiobooks SUUUCK.
Never figured out how to start listening to podcasts, tbh.
Usually, you start it with the play button /s
Fair enough, lol.
If you are into selfhosting you could checkout audiobookshelf which allows you to stream podcasts and audiobooks from your own server and manage their metadata
I don’t want to stream from my server though since I almost never listen to audiobooks while connected to WiFi. Podcast apps are already setup to manage syncing files for offline listening, most are well suited to work with Bluetooth and Android Auto. Podcast apps tend to be more mature and less troublesome than something new like audiobookshelf. Plus, if I get fed up with one podcast app I can just switch to another because RSS is standard. I don’t want another suite of software managing a metadata database. Getting the metadata correct in the files and utilizing an open standard is much more future proof.