@AntennaPod I ditched Pocketcasts for AntennaPod just a months ago and I never looked back. The most advanced function I'm loving so far is cross device synching powered by the #gpoddersync#nextcloud app and my desktop podcast client #kasts. It works like a charm: I can start listening to an episode on my desktop and continue were I left off on my android phone using AntennaPod. Amazing. Thank you guys for this wonderful piece of software!
@LexPendragon Next best thing is to start #Kasts from the command line and see which warnings it throws. I'm quite sure qml will be complaining about missing components.
I would love to see open podcast projects such as @AntennaPod and @kasts integrate with a FOSS, decentralized protocol like ActivityPub for efficient podcast syncing between platforms. Does such a thing exist now?
@beunice@AntennaPod We're already working on this. Both #AntennaPod and #Kasts are involved in openpodcastapi.org together with other projects like #FunkWhale It's still in the process of specification at the moment.
#Kasts for Linux has had some updates since the last time I looked at it. They are now a viable alternative for me over #gPodder which has been unstable and unusable for the past year. gPodder used to very reliable, but things got so bad that I was seriously looking at #Clementine as an alternative. Very happy to see that Kasts has stepped up their game.
@ioletsgo@m#Kasts has built-in sync support for the gpodder(-nextcloud) protocol. AntennaPod is an android client that supports that protocol as well.
If you don't want to use that, you could in principle sync two instances of Kasts by synchronizing the .local/share/KDE/kasts directory between devices, e.g. with syncthing. That directory contains all of the apps state and downloads.
You could get some conflicts on the DB if you sync while Kasts is running, though.
@musicmatze Unfortunately, gpodder sync API does not cover queue syncing. However, together with several other podcast apps (including #antennapod) we're working on a new API that will include queue syncing: https://openpodcastapi.org/
Having said that, #Kasts will already add any episodes to the queue that are "in progress" while syncing.
As a #JurassicPark buff I thoroughly enjoyed episode 67 of the Script Apart #podcast with David Koepp, JP's screenwriter. Learned lots of trivia, like the fact that Malcolm wasn't in the first draft, or why they made Hammond so different from the book.
Script Apart is one of my favourite podcasts, where screenwriters share their first scripts for famous movies and explain what changed and what didn't. Totally recommended!
Back to #KDE#Plasma.
The occasional bugs "bugged" me, so I went to #xfce, but I found its limited keyboard controls... limiting.
I tried #Gnome for about five minutes and ran screaming for the hills. :D
@RL_Dane@kasts The "special" thing about #Kasts is that it can sync play positions and subscriptions with other clients like #AntennaPod through gpodder or gpodder-nextcloud. So you can switch between devices and pick up playback from the point you left it on the previous device.