With Google podcast dying I’m looking for a replacement.
I’d like to unchain myself from the corpos if I can too. So I’m not interested in another pod catcher that’ll just try to monetize me.
Are there are self hosted rss readers with push? That seems like a great solution for pods and just about anything else I might want to keep up with.
Do you just use podcasts on your phone? If you have an Android phone, AntennaPod, while not self-hosted, works very well and is FOSS. There are other options to “self-host podcasts” to varying degrees:
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PodHoarder: mentioned in another comment, which could be piped into AntennaPod, but I find that a bit redundant for me
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AudioBookshelf: a fantastic self-hosted audiobook server, and an okay podcast server, but is focused around streaming from your server to your listening device, and I prefer to download on wifi to listen later (it was pretty clunky for that workflow).
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GPodderSync: barely supported at this point and missing too many features to be useful in my opinion, but a neat backend for AntennaPod and other players to sync to some degree.
Bonus: the creators of AntennaPod and other FOSS podcasting software are working on a replacement for GPodderSync here: https://github.com/OpenPodcastAPI
EDIT: for RSS in general, I use FreshRSS, which uses the g-reader API to sync across multiple apps. It’s awesome.
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Why do you need to self-host a dedicated server? Just put AntennaPod on your phone.
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Lol no seriously, what’s your goal here? Self-hosting a server seems entirely unnecessary.
If you want to host an RSS server, FreshRSS is easy to set up if you know how to do Docker stuff. Then, you could connect it to a podcast app on your phone. But all that seems very complicated when you could just install AntennaPod (which is open source), subscribe to a podcast’s official RSS feed, and turn on notifications for that podcast. Adding an RSS server between your listening device and the original RSS server is unnecessary IMO, unless you have a use case that I’m not understanding.
Here is a use case: multiple device sync. With a server client infrastructure, read status are synced to the server, so if I change device, I can pick it up where I left off. Same thing as using a cloud service, but self hosted.
Antennapod does offer that by hooking into the gpodder.net API.ive had varying success with gpodder.net but hosting that yourself (I host it as an app on my Nextcloud) is a breeze
Thx, for podcasts, I paid for pocketcast a long time ago, so I’m fine for now. I’m mainly looking for this use case, but for a standard RSS reader.
FreshRSS is the tool for that
I didn’t know about antenna pod, and I assumed you were just being mean.
Why rss self hosting and seemingly complicated? I thought push notifications needed a back end of some kind. I didn’t think that was possible with just a podcast app
I currently use AntennaPod with NextCloud’s version of GPodderSync; which is…adequate.
My ultimate solution would be one where a self-hosted app that tracks and download my podcasts, and then proxy them with some sync mechanism to an android app, but keep them as separate shows with artwork and stuff rather than consolidate them into one feed. I could then choose to listen on the self-hosted web interface or the Android app, and they would be kept in sync.
I wanted to follow up here because I became aware of a pretty good solution for this. It’s called pine pods and it’s an open source self-hosted service that also syncs with GPodder (or Nextcloud’s version of it) so it will keep AntennaPod and itself synched.
If you’re just looking for RSS -> Push take a look at feedpushr
I use it with gotify without too many issues.
I am really happy with miniflux. It supports mobile and has good keyboard navigation support on Desktop. It’s also runs really smooth on my rather low powered homeserver (rpi 2b).
For push notifications you can use a simple script with ntfy. For example miniflux-ntfy.
I tried a few.
Podhoarder is nice but more geared toward hoarding and a bit complex for listening.
Podfetch is nice and currently maintained but has some issues with proxy auth. It might cut the cheese for you I think. It has a weird naming scheme on disk tough.
AudioBookReader is amazing and still currently under very active development. With its mobile app is perfect for my use case. Podcast support is just fine for me.
PodGrabber seems abandoned since 2022, but I didn’t try it.
I’m interested in seeing what you come up with.
Does something like podHoarder fit the bill?
Not sure if it meets your needs but I’ve been using Audiobookshelf for pulling podcasts. The default web interface is simple and straightforward and you can create secondary rss feeds if you have another podcast app you prefer. Has apps for iOS and android, though the iOS app is TestFlight. As a podcast player it’s decent. Not sure if it does notifications, I tend to disable them.
I started using it because one of the podcasts I listened to ended and I wasn’t able to go back and relisten to the episodes. Decided to start archiving the podcasts I was interested in.
For podcasts I recommend audiobookshelf. It has a very nice podcasts category with ability to backup the podcastst yourself, also syncs progress over multiple devices.
For rss I use miniflux.
