5 minute ad breaks every 15 minutes kinda ruin the experience.

  •  Jeena   ( @jeena@piefed.jeena.net ) 
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    504 months ago

    I really want podcast apps to hook into SponsorBlock.

    Right now I’m listening to very few English podcasts because of all the advertisement. I switched to German and Swedish because most of them don’t have any advertisement in them.

  •  lemonuri   ( @lemonuri@lemmy.ml ) 
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    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.

    • But how do you learn about raycons? Seriously, there are some podcasters that i really like. The podcast and the people behind it. But it’s getting really hard to not dislike someone that’s willingly trying to sell you garbage. Like your best friend from high school that is trying to pull you in his pyramid scheme. I used to listen to the marc maron podcast, because he’s pretty good at talking to people and he had some cool guests. His sponsors were that stamp company and some website company. Now marcs whole thing is that he’s a boomer that doesn’t like new things. One day he did his show and then it was time for a commercial and he was like: and today’s sponsor is ROCKET LEAGUE. ROCKET LEAGUE is a fun and exciting… What in the fuck. Thins isn’t just a scam, you have not the slightest idea what you are advertising for.

      •  Rai   ( @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        13 months ago

        During the early couple years of MBMBAM, I didn’t mind their ad reads. They made it funny. I never skipped Cumtown’s ad reads because they read them so shitty it was extremely funny.

        Every other podcast I detest the reads.

        Fuck you Shopify, your loud grating DING makes me flinch every time it blasts in my ears. I hate you.

  •  Gamma   ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) 
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    63 months ago

    You can set Pocket Casts to skip the first or last X seconds of an episode, which I’ve found helps. I also set fast forward to go 30s and rewind to 15 so it’s easier to scrub forward through an ad and I’m never too far off when I go over and have to rewind.

  •  Kuvwert   ( @Kuvwert@lemm.ee ) 
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    53 months ago

    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

  •  Pixel   ( @Pixel@lemmy.ca ) 
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    43 months ago

    People who are looking for direct integration between podcast players and SponsorBlock seem to be missing that a lot of podcasts these days that do have advertising in them oftentimes have dynamic ads where the ad audio will change depending on the day, the geographical location of the download, etc. So SponsorBlock can’t actually account for what are essentially dynamic timestamps Whereas with YouTube you typically have fairly static timestamps that can be shared across a user base, only smaller podcasts are really going to be able to be captured by SponsorBlock unless someone discovers a way to mod an Android APK to essentially prevent the client-side compilation of ads and the original podcast audio assuming that there is a podcast app that does this on the client side.

    •  Kairos   ( @LodeMike@lemmy.today ) 
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      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.