A nothig-to-play audio-stream and autostart

App version: 3.6.1f - fdroid

Problem you may be having, or feature you want:
Our Country starting shutdown analog radio but my car cannot play it. But i have a flatrate Internet.

Suggested solution:
Podcast is priority, but if nothing is in Playlist a preset internet stream is played.
Also there must be a way to autostart antennapod and autoplay if a certain Bluetooth is connected. Currently, I have to manual start antennapod in the parking lot. But in some cases I forget to start it.

(My car do not support Android auto, and our second Car has a Bluetooth adapter on aux)

You may want to see what an automation app like Bixby (Samsung only) or Macodroid can do for you.

Just to set expectations: this part cannot be supported because AntennaPod does and will not have support for internet radio stations: Add features "Radio Station" in the application AntennaPod · Issue #3236 · AntennaPod/AntennaPod · GitHub

About the auto-start with bluetooth, I recommend following up on @gomezz’ post, because such level of automation also doesn’t really fit the scope of AntennaPod I would think.

I do not need a full station support, An input field for a station link should be enougth… or a certain Podcast which run even not downloaded. I have some with low priority I only listen on empty queue.

Even that would require the following:

  • A screen to manage stations (we cannot list them in the Subscriptions screen), which also has to be added to the menu also
    • Or at least a new setting, if we enable only a single station.
  • A new table in the database for these stations (or a new column in the subscriptions table to indicate if an entry is an actual subscription or an online stream), if we go beyond a single station URL in the settings
  • I wouldn’t know whether our media handler would require any changes actually – I guess we could just give it a URL (stream) to play
  • Change the playback progress bar in mini-player and full player such that it handles infinite play
  • Make parts of the player screen further conditional, such as the display of the ‘favourite’, ‘Open podcast’, ‘Description’ buttons as well as the scrolling mechanism to the description
  • Handle (reflect, then implement or reject) the following improvement requests that folks will submit:
    • Please allow to add more radio stations and add a screen to view all streams (if we make it a single URL in the settings)
    • Please process radio feed images so they can be shown on the player screen
    • Please allow to search for radio stations, not just adding via direct URL (it is hard to find relevant URLs! and you already have a search for podcasts so it could easily be added there!)
    • Please allow me to set the streaming quality (on WiFi I want the highest, on mobile connection I want a lower quality to save bandwidth)
  • Change the queue logic to start the/a stream after the queue is done

As you can see, it’s not that simple.

If with this you mean to continue with streaming episodes of actual podcasts: this you could already do by adding such episodes to the queue while not downloading them and enabling streaming of episodes via mobile data.