What’s new
* fixed local media not playing
Quick answer
Modern, feature-rich, without access to Youtube
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Podcini, an open source podcast instrument, attuned to Puccini, adorned with pasticcini and aromatized with porcini, invites your harmonious heartbeats.
Do I hear your heartbeats? Great!
Common functionalities of a podcast player are well-supported:
- Search, discover and subscribe to podcasts, by keywords, simple RSS URLs, or OPML files.
- Download, stream or queue episodes, and enjoy them the way you like with adjustable playback speeds.
- Save effort, battery power and mobile data usage with powerful automation controls for auto-downloading/auto-enqueuing episodes.
- If the feed contains no media (plain RSS feed), Text-to-Speech engine is used to play the text.
- Listening progress can be instantly synced through a NextCloud server or across devices in the same Wi-Fi network without a server.
- It's open sourced, free to use and free of ads, free as in beer and free as in speech!
- It takes advantage of modern frameworks to be efficient and conserve energy.
- In addition to subscriptions, it allows you to create your own synthetic podcasts to compile your interested episodes from various sources to better focus on your interests.
- While the list of episodes (filtered and sorted by you) in each podcast serves a natural playlist for you, it also empowers you with multiple queues each associable with any podcasts to group similar contents for better listening.
- On any podcast/episode, you can assign 5 levels of rating allowing you to make better decisions on where to put your attention.
- You have 12 levels of play states (like to play soon, play again, etc) to better plan and enhance your listening experiences.
- You can also keep your personal notes with your opinions/comments on each podcast/episode.
- It has sophisticated sorting and filtering options for you to better select contents.
- When you unsubscribe a podcast, it allows you to preserve your important episodes of the podcast in a synthetic feed.
- It keeps a record of your unsubscribed podcasts and notifies you if you unknowingly try to re-subscribe to some.
- It caches streamed audio for seamless local rewind and replay.
- You can record audio clips or mark positions on any episodes for better review.
- You can also set selected episodes related for better grouping.
- Sure, you can play any episodes in your car's speakers.
- And, it's not all about audio, video is well handled.
- You can cast the audio/video to Chromecast speakers/screens.
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How to install
- Download the APK from the button at the top of this page.
- Allow “Install unknown apps” for your browser or file manager only, not for every app.
- Open the downloaded file and confirm the installation.
- If installation fails with “App not installed,” remove an earlier build of the same app first. A signature conflict is the usual cause.
Data safety
- Every file is checked against its published SHA-256 before it is listed.
- Files are scanned for malware on every update.
- The permissions each app requests are listed on its own page.
- Read the full safety policy for how we test, flag, and delist files.
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