I’m happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there’s some other way to make it work. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.
I would love this too.
Right now I use Pocket Casts which lets you set a specific time to skip at the beginning or end of a podcast. Useful for static ads but not for the dynamic ones throughout the show.
I also use Pocket Casts …and I just skip the ads manually. I set the skip forward time to 30 seconds and I set skip back to 10, makes it pretty easy to hop past them.
This is exactly what I do now. But skipping ahead and back is tough when I’m listening while cooking and have raw chicken on my hands.
Podcasts are yet one more thing that ads have more or less ruined for me. I rarely listen to them due to the sponsorships. It is like trying to watch YouTube on my TV through the YouTube app instead of the Smarttube app.
Man I love that app so much it really leveled up my TV YouTube experience especially with sponsorblock built in
Would you pay for them? I mean these are usually just people making them not giant corporations. How do they make money.
If the price was what I deemed acceptable and the method of doing so was decently centralized. I’m not going to sign up to 15 different podcasts with 15 separate transactions every month.
So yes, I would pay for them if they make it attractive to pay for. Ultimately the viability of their business model is not my problem. So even if it is one guy in his garage, it is on him to create something I would be willing to pay for. If they can’t then oh well I can easily do without their podcast.
I just unsubscribe when it becomes too prominent. There was a guy doing a recap of the news of the day in 5 minutes. Suddenly added 2 minutes of ads. Fuck that
This is not a solution. It’s like when there are too many ads on a site, stop using the site instead of just using an adblocker. Eventually I won’t be able to listen to any podcasts with this “solution”.
I wish there was. I listen to this particular podcast that has the same sponsor for years and they do make it much more entertaining than the average podcast, but I still find myself manually skipping it every time I sense it coming. And because they make it more part of the conversation, the ad moment lasts for minutes each episode, so I’m sure every regular listener had enough of that.
Not quite what you’re looking for, but Overcast has Skip Intro and Skip Outro features. For each show, you can set an amount of time for the app to automatically skip over at the beginning and end of each episode. I find it super useful for some shows
Podcast Addict as well (also has skip silence)
Antennapod lets you customize how far your fast forward button skips ahead.
But every ad on every episode of every podcast can be different. Right now with pocket cast, I skip ahead 30 seconds at a time then go back 10 seconds. But I’d rather automate it
Saaaame. Only thing I can think of is a server to download the podcasts, then some kind of ML/AI/LLM chicanery to transcribe, ID and timestamp the sponsor segments? Then chop it out with ffmpeg?
Edit: looks like Podgrab can download the files, the rest might be doable with a bit of scripting.
You can also set for each podcasts a skip intro and outro time.
Hm! I look forward to trying Antennapod or pocketcasts since Gpodcasts is getting the Google Funeral treatment. :( Thanks for the likely superior alternatives.
Pocket Casts also has these features.
I desperately want this as well.
I use podcast addicts’ auto slip feature. Most podcasts I listen to have a set ad of a set length at the start or end. You can set an auto slip on a per subscription basis. Works for me
Just posted this in another thread, it’s not implemented yet but TubeArchivist has a podcast mode on their roadmap: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist
I think the only reasonable way to do that would be using AI since the sponsors are placed randomly throughout usually. Unless you listen to a specific podcast and they do same length of sponsor in same time slot every video you could automate something that cuts it out.
Sponsorblock does this with just regular I, not AI. E.G. crowdsourcing the sponsored segments
Crowd sourcing works great. First person marks it, everyone else gets to enjoy it without the ads.
I wish this existed. I figure it’s a matter of time before someone develops a ML solution.
I usually just try to hunt down bootleg feeds. I can usually find one, or a Patreon feed that someone has shared.
Extremely interested in this as well, i might need to start learning android development now ;)
On top of dynamic ads, another problem would be decentralisation of podcasts. Many of them are released on several platforms simultaneously, and some sort of extra work would be needed for this to work accordingly independent of where you’re listening to a particular podcast.
The podcasts I listen to, very larely have sponsors during the episode, what are you guys listening to?
Different podcasts
You don’t say it!
I used to use WeCast, it had a community driven block much like sponsorblock. But it was a long time ago, I couldn’t find it on Google Play so I don’t know if it’s still active.
