Android @lemmy.world Pantherina @feddit.de 6 mo. ago

Podcini: a modern and more minimalist fork of AntennaPod

github.com GitHub - XilinJia/Podcini: Open source podcast player for Android with androidx.media3

Open source podcast player for Android with androidx.media3 - XilinJia/Podcini

Podcini is really great! It modernizes the Antennapod codebase (we wouldnt believe but that is pretty outdated!) and makes it more efficient.

Differing from the forked project, this project is purely Kotlin based, relies on the most recent dependencies, and most importantly has migrated the media player to androidx.media3, and added mechanism of AudioOffloadMode which is supposed to be kind to device battery. Efficiencies are also sought on running the app. App build is also upgraded to target Android 14.

After some hiccups at the beginning, it is now in a very good state!

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Cool if this is more efficient, but is AntennaPod considered bloated? It's one of very few apps I feel give me precisely what I need and doesn't annoy me with fluff.
- I dont think it is very debloated, but look at the repo, home and echo page are removed and there are no modules anymore.
  
  I saw that but that just seems like their preference. I don't feel anything in particular about the home page. It's customizable too IIRC. I don't know what the echo page is.
I am unsure of this is needed. Compared to many podcast apps, antennapod is a core podcast app without many unneeded bells and whistles.

Not entirely sure what efficiencies are gained here. Might have been better if focus was given to the original project instead.
- Yeah dont know either why a fork is needed. It is a port to various modern Android standards and libraries, so it is absolutely needed and not necessarily a deviation.
  
  I think the changes are okay, but not needed.
Why have you posted this three times in a row now?
- I'm down voting every repost except the first, which I up voted.
  
  Lol
- Network stuff
  
  Thought about removing the others maybe?
The only thing I want from AntennaPod is the ability to automatically delete episodes that are x days old. My storage eventually becomes so full that I have to uninstall the app completely and reinstall because I'm not about to manually go and delete them all...

E: I finally figured this out. Go to download --> automatic download --> Set "episode cache" to whatever and then "episode cleanup" to "not favorited".

This is ridiculously unintuitive and probably should be the default settings...

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