My phone is broken and I neeeed to listen to my podcasts while this is resolving. I thought it would be simple enough but I have been banging my head for days now.

There are lots of rss readers and podcatchers.

Ideally the downloading and listening would be integrated. Failing that, I can put up with 2 separate steps.

I can do the downloading although it’s kind of clunky. Best for this are RSSGuard and Gpodder. But once you get the files, things totally break down.

minimally require:

  • track listening status
  • properly access metadata, not just going by filenames.
    • most crucially: name of podcast, episode title, published date, download date
    • maybe the downloader has some role to play in writing file/metadata correctly but the ones I have tried don’t seem to do it
  • don’t need to make an account/server to do the above

I tried everything in arch/aur repos. A few of them had totally broken UIs not sure what the deal is. I am open to TUI options but none seemed viable.

manjaro/xfce

  • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tubeEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    I use audiobookshelf for both audiobooks and podcasts. It can handle the podcast metadata well, show pictures and descriptions, track your listen progress, etc.

  • monobot@lemmy.ml
    4·
    11 months ago

    I think you have correctly described state of open source podcast aggregators.

    While it seams like non important matter, with control YT has on content, podcast are becoming incrisingly important for me.

  • donut4ever@lemm.ee
    3·
    11 months ago

    I can think of three apps that I have used and liked (since you didn’t mention that you tried that them already) Cpod, Kasts and Vocal. See if any of them works for ya

      • donut4ever@lemm.ee
        2·
        11 months ago

        Damn. Sorry you’re going through this. See if gnome’s podcasts works for ya? Btw, cpod works for me just fine on fedora. I actually just tried it. I got it as a flatpak, though Maybe try the flatpak app and see if that works? 🤞

        • imaradio@lemmy.ca
          OP
          1·
          11 months ago

          I have settled into kasts. Thanks for the rec. :) It is simple but does the job. If my phone issues persist I will try the flatpack of cpod.

  • thejevans@lemmy.ml
    1·
    11 months ago

    I know it’s not what you really want, and I haven’t tried it yet, but I think your best bet is probably podfetch. I don’t know if you’ve looked into it yet, but it’s basically a gpodder server with a web podcast frontend tied to it. It’s the next thing I’m going to try.