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      Auto-downloads work wonderfully here and can even be set per-podcast which is such a nice feature.

      Not saying this to denigrate your experience but to perhaps soften the ‘is horrific’ notion into somewhat more of a ‘does not work for you’ one. Otherwise, I suppose Pocket Casts is also open source nowadays - or has always been and I did not notice? But that was a reasonably good alternative for me as well before I switched to AntennaPod.

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          I use it daily and it’s great. It has really granular controls and I only download some podcasts and even those I can cancel the auto download if it has a word reference I don’t want. My only complaint is the syncing between devices which admittedly is not great.

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            That is a little of how I use it too - I have all podcasts set to download automatically globally (set it up to 25 episodes at the same time) and put them in my queue so I always have exactly 25 episodes to listen to in any order there each day.

            Then there are 2 daily podcasts that I do not let automatically download (but automatically refresh, and I love that the app delineates between the two), however one regularly produces longer episodes including a lot of the shorter ones that I do let it automatically download. Huh, I never realized how advanced the setup actually is. Though I do remember the actual ‘setting up’ being relatively painless after getting to grips with the global/per-podcast difference.

            Also, fwiw I have the synchronization set up using one of the self-hosted options instead of the default gpodder service - which is often down intermittently - and it works well enough, even if a bit slow every now and again.

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      Also sometimes it just literally does nothing. Push the play button and nothing at all happens.

      That’s a bug with the notification/lockscreen widget AFAICT. Pressing play on the main player window should work. This is the most serious bug I’ve found. It’s quite a promising player otherwise.

      I’m happy to know that Pocketcasts is OS now, that was my player of choice before trying to jump to Antennapod.

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      I’ve never had an issue with this. And no, I don’t know how to help you. Contacting the devs would be your best hope.

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      Unfortunately, that will be a better experience than Google Podcasts in 2024. Always looking for better options. Let me know if you know of any.