Please integrate a generator for one-click app links that, when clicked, offer to open the podcast directly in your own podcast app. This means that when you click on such a link in your messenger, a dialog from Android appears with the question with which app the link should be opened. It makes sharing a podcast episode to other people with a different podcast app so much more convenient.
I believe the request here is that we generate a link that would open sth in AntennaPod. When it comes to subscriptions, we could leverage the subscriptions Deepali knom the website.
(For episodes some more technical discussions need to be had.)
Is sharing episodes part of this? And if so, how can you create such a link in Antennapod?
I think it’s a shame that after so many years of podcasting, there is no way to share episodes with friends without them having to search for the episode themselves in their podcast app.
At least I haven’t found a good way. The only way I know of is to send Apple Podcast links. Which is really weird.
I have just given the built in Share function a go and successfully shared a couple of different episodes from different podcasts to a Whatsapp group which then allows you to play the episode. Is this not what you are after?
When you click the shared link, you should be prompted to open it in your default podcast app. Antennapod links only open in the browser, which for me is a hardship solution for listening to podcasts. This partially ruins the usefulness of a podcast app if you can then only open shared episodes in the browser. Or if you have to search for the episode manually in the app to listen to it there. This is as if to share a website instead of the link only the page title and the recipient must first search for it with his search engine to be able to view it.
Exactly for this purpose there are app links. So I don’t understand why that’s not being used.
Just try to open the apple podcast link to see the difference.
I think one thing that will prevent it is that you can’t add an episode for a podcast you’re not subscribed to.
So, imho, the best AntennaPod could do is offering you to preview it.
The reason why no one does this is because episodes do not really exist without a podcast. A single episode is just a media file. In a podcast player that is not a platform, you cannot have single episodes without subscribing to the whole podcast.
I often do that with Pocket Cast and did with Castbox. Because I want to listen to a few episodes first before I subscribe to the channel.
Sharing a podcast episode is not only intended for Antennapod users. None of my friends use AntennaPod, which I want to change. Therefore, this restriction does not matter for the time being.
There are several podcast apps that do just that (as esuto mentions above). It can be a very desirable thing to do when one is not interested in a podcast in general, however, there is one episode that has an interesting subject, or an interesting guest. Being able to queue such an episode without subscribing to the entire podcast is very useful.
Okay, there might be different definitions for “platforms”. I meant centralized apps where the logic sits on the server, not in the app. These apps won’t work without connecting to the app developer’s server. More details here: Central and distributed podcast apps – AntennaPod
Yes, and as the text from the link states, AntennaPod is not such an app (AntennaPod is distributed not centralized).
Most of what is needed to queue a single episode is already available in AntennaPod. All that would have to be added is a single folder intended at the storage place for downloaded single episode (subscribing to a folder is already available in the app). Then, when a user finds a single episode that is interesting, the user could choose to “download” instead of “preview” (the download option would need to be added). The downloaded episode would be saved in the folder for single episodes. Downloaded episodes would then be added to the queue.
The notion that this is not possible is odd. Again, other podcast apps do something very similar.
I can accept that it may be chosen not to add this to AntennaPod, however, the assertion that it is not possible…
The reason why no one does this…
…you cannot have single episodes without subscribing to the whole podcast.
…you can’t add an episode for a podcast you’re not subscribed to.
is not correct.
Again, I can accept that it might be chosen not to implement such a feature, but it is possible to do.
I need to save links to specific episodes in a notes app to have them grouped in specific clusters.
Unfortunately I can either save the link to the mediafile or to the podcasts website. But not a link that triggers Antennapod to open.
There are several reasons why I said goodbye to Spotify but that was a huge benefit there: Links that start with “Spotify…” and opened the respective episode directly in Spotify.
I appreciate what you’re trying to do, though Spotify is a completely different animal than AntennaPod. Spotify is a web site (that also has an app) so of course you can share a link that points to something on the site. AntennaPod is an app that allows you to access podcasts from the servers where the episodes live.
Have you tried Subscribe On Android? That’s the site that was requested at the top of this post two years ago. It’s nice to see that AntennaPod is the first app on their list of supported podcast apps.
