Ability to skip ads in the podcast

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@FeederPilot

But one thing everybody can agree on is that ads suck.

I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion too easily. I, for one, don’t think ads suck. They’re not awesome, but they pay the creators or my fun-time. Anyway - whether ads suck or not is not the point of this thread, so I’ll stop there

@FeederPilot

Have you looked at the Sponsorblock repository? Wouldn’t it be possible to take the core functionality and port it to AntennaPod? Just to make things a little easier, I mean.

I haven’t - but I’m not a developer so wouldn’t be of any help implementing this either way

@james

Can we find/create a service (actually, I’ve been looking for a side-project) where sponsorship/donation/contribution options for a podcast are listed?

There is stuff going on over at the Podcast Index. There’s two relevant requests to integrate it in AntennaPod:

• support for the funding tag
• support for the value tag

@ajayyy

Here’s a video showing how Vanced (android app) made SponsorBlock submissions work on mobile:

Thanks for sharing that @ajayyy ! Very helpful to see how this could work. It does feel like AntennaPod would need a dedicated row for SponsorBlock in the player screen.

The frame selection in video is very helpful in finding the start and end, but I’m wondering how this could be replicated with audio only. Showing a still obviously is not going to work. Either:

• Audio-only start and end-points would be much more an approximation. When playing, we should start skipping a bit later, and stop skipping a bit earlier. Or
• We need to find a way to find the right points. I guess the preview button will be important.
  • Maybe a ‘check start’ and a ‘check end’ button could help: after setting initial points, hitting either button will play the area t-10s until t+10s in slow-motion (e.g. 0.5 speed), displays somehow the timeline zoomed in with a draggable pin to more precise tweaking.
  • Maybe we need to display audio waves like Audacity does, to support visual finding start/end points. Could work in combination with the above: a pop-up that displays such wave of a period around the initially selected points, with a slider to do more precise location.

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Different point; I know from previous issues in AntennaPod that storing the playback location of audio-files with variable bitrate can sometimes be problematic. Could this prove an issue for SponsorBlock support?