Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

I wasn’t aware that Google Podcasts was still a thing. I thought it closed years ago.

In before people scream and spam that killed by Google link.

They're merging it into YouTube music. That's a good thing.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The company earlier this year announced YouTube Music would begin supporting podcasts in the U.S., which will expand globally by year-end, and more recently said it was adding the ability for podcasters to upload their RSS feeds to YouTube also by year-end.

The latter is something rival Spotify has also been working on with its rollout of video podcast support to creators worldwide last year along with community features like Q&As and polls.

These migration tools aren’t yet available but will be worked on in the coming weeks and months before being rolled out to all users.

“We know this transition will take time, but these efforts will allow us to build an amazing product and a single destination that rewards creators and artists and provides fans with the best Podcasts experience,” a YouTube blog post explained.

We’re committed to being transparent in communicating future changes with our users and podcasters and will have more to share about this process in the coming months,” it said.

The move will leave only Apple among the major players that hasn’t consolidated music and podcasts into a single destination, as Spotify, Amazon and Pandora all offer both types of audio in their flagship applications.

The original article contains 530 words, the summary contains 201 words. Saved 62%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

I actually use this app, just purely out of laziness (i only listen to a few podcast). It plays audio, but Christ, the few times Ive used it to search for new things it's total garbage. I've been served podcast episodes with broken playback, the search results are hardly relevant, and there is no way to refine results.

Thanks for the PSA. If anyone has a lightweight recommended alternative please hit me up!