Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music

This would be a great moment for The Onion to run a headline like "Google plans to sunset Gmail, migrate users to YouTube Music."

Another one bites the dust.

Dear Google.

YouTube Music is shit. Stop trying to combine your other services into YouTube music.

Google Play Music was good. Google Podcasts was... not awful

YouTube Music is the worst of both services.

Just stop

This is why Google will forever be behind Apple. Any app that can't be monetised gets killed. Why give Android users a stable ecosystem after all? Fuck the users. Google fucking sucks.

Killing google play music didn't make me switch to youtube music, same here

Good news: you never needed Google Podcasts to begin with. Antenna Pod is a Free Open Source app that won't track your every move and just works.

Why is Google trying to follow the model of Spotify even though the model is not really successful? I hate when browsing my music in Spotify some podcast pops up. I just want to listen to my music, dammit!

Google Play Music users: "First 600th time?"

Do they have a script that they must follow? Why every single time they need to kill a product BEFORE having a fucking replacement???

Why they couldn't implement podcasts in yt music and then kill Google podcasts?

Why. Every. Single. Time. They need to kill a product BEFORE the replacement is ready?????????????

I'm guessing right now every dev with a podcasting app on the play store is popping champagne from the huge influx of Google podcasts refugees

"what if we made it so everybody had to pay to turn off their screens even if there was no video or music!"

Oh Google.

They kicked everyone off Google Music to go to YT Music and Google Podcasts. Now they’re killing Google Podcasts and telling people to go to YT Music.

If YT Music wasn’t linked with my YouTube Premium subscription, I would never use it.

At this point it's on you if you put any faith in any Google product aside from Search/YT/Adtech to last longer than a couple of years.

Fortunately when they killed the podcasts out of Google Play Music I switched to Podcast Addict and never looked back.

I honestly feel bad for the guys assigned to work on this dead-end project.

And considering the buggy, infuriating mess that YTM is and that team is being rewarded with expanded scope, I wonder what dirt they have on Sundar.

Fuck! I liked Google podcasts due to the android auto integration! I am not willing to install yt music on my phone.

Google is now my least favorite company.

I'm totally on board them getting investigated for antitrust and monopolistic practices. Google has really turned to shit the last 4-5 years.

Well fuck me, why? Why oh why? It's such a clean and simple app, no weird shit and of course it gets axed. I think I may just stop listening to podcasts then, much easier than switching to an app I have no interest in.

That sucks, it's been my only podcast app for many years.

I will never switch to YouTube music. Guess I'll have to leave another google service.

Edit: Moved to antennapod in about 10 minutes, bye google podcasts 😂

Just use a good podcast app like Pocket Casts. It’s the king on iOS at least, so I assume it’s good on Android as well. I never understood why people keep using these shitty Google apps that always get abandoned.

This is why I'll never get invested in Google again. I'm working on trying to move everything I can out.

Edit: Spelling

YT music isn't even available in my region, these fucks.

I saw this coming when GPM shutdown and podcasts migrated to Google Podcasts. The GPM podcasts were already bugged before that due to lack of attention. Very happy I bailed out for AntennaPod way back then!

Today on: "What did Google decide to kill?"

Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024

Welp, another Google service that was too beautiful for this world.

Time to move my subscriptions to other podcatcher then. [taking a quick look at various migration options] Hmmm. What to write on Google Podcasts gravestone? "Here lies Google Podcasts. It never supported OPML."

with listeners migrated to YouTube Music

Damn. I migrated my Google Play Music purchases to YouTube Music and to this day I have no idea where they actually went. If I hadn't downloaded the local MP3 copies with the terrible joke of a client software they had, I'd have been screwed. Went back to just buying music on iTunes.

Overcast is superior to both. And I used to pay for YouTube Music…

I switched to Pocket Cast

& VLC player for music

Another one for the pile

What the fuck. I use both apps, but podcasts doesn't blow at life when it comes to actual podcasts.

I can only recommend pocket casts! But I'm aware of the fact that they've moved to a subscription model since I purchased the app, and I can only give that recommendation based on my purchase which included full features for life (a deal which has thus far been honored). If the sub is worth is might be another question for someone who has it.

Fucking again... I really let it happen to myself this time...

Okay, in the meantime, how do I export my subscriptions from Google Podcasts?

Any recommendations for android? I know there's pocket casts but I'm not paying a subscription for a podcast app. All I need it to do is literally find the podcast then click play. I'm not really sure what there even is to innovate on for apps to charge you.

I think I'm the only person on the internet that likes YT Music.

There should be an xkcd for Google killing off stuff.

Unless there already is.

Or an Onion article that we can repeat post everyone this happens. Twice a year in most years. Google Domains.

Well fuck here we go again. I can't stand YouTube Music, and Spotify is not where I want to go for Podcasts.

Comeon Google stop pulling this kind of crap.

Podcast is basic - I wish I could do a text search on episode descriptions - but the simplicity is a lot of what makes it good. YouTube is a mess of crap and I don't like using it. I guess I'll be looking for another app now.

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.

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God damnit...