Hello,
I love your app and have been using it now for several years to access my Podcasting feeds, keep up the good work!
I did want to request a feature be considered for adding to the software. A lot of the podcasts I listen to request that the listener rate the podcast for helping with increasing exposure to potential new listeners, this is apparently a feature built into other apps like iTunes (or whatever Apple calls it) and Spotify. Is there a way to integrate an ability to rate a podcast from w/in AntennaPod? I would like to be able to support the heads of the podcasts I subscribe to, but I typically do not want to open accounts with services I donāt use to do this.
I think that having a way to rate podcasts would certainly be nice. The question is: where would these ratings go; which service would receive and store the ratings? Like you implied, one would need to have an account somewhere to add those reviews.
Itāll be impossible I think for AntennaPod to integrate with Apple and Spotify, so that you can use those accounts to add/store your reviews. Itās out of scope for our volunteer project to create a service with āAntennaPod accountsā, which was discussed and rejected in the context of synchronisation service (internal discussion).
The only possible way I can see now, is integrating with Podfriendās review system (Podfriend is a new open source podcast web-app) and/or feeddirectory.org (though Iām not sure on that projectās status or license).
Hello,
Thank you for the detailed reply. The difficulties you detail with this suggestion make sense, me being a non-programming end user would not grasp this unless it was explained to me. I will look into the two open source projects your mentioned, most appreciated.
It seems to me that the open source podcasting apps space is sorely lacking such social sharing features, and AntennaPod integrating with Panoptikum seems (or Podfriend, or Fyyd, etc.) seems like a good way to build the ecosystem.
After all, the main factor of success for social features is the number of people using them, not how fancy they are. A simple way to publicly ālikeā an episode, perhaps with an accompanying text recommendation, would go a long way in enabling better social discovery, and popularization of lesser known, more diverse podcasts.
Question for the podcasters in here. After de-googling I moved to @AntennaPod which is an amazing app, however most podcasts ask you to leave a review on YouTube or apple to help on visibility and other metrics. So, how are your metrics affected while I listen to your content on a non algorithm driven app? What can I do to support your content if I use AntennaPod? Would the star symbol in the app play the role of showing support or is it just a favourites bookmark?
symbol in the app play the role of showing support or is it just a favourites bookmark?