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Best part of PocketCast is the stats. It can tell me that since 2016 I've listened to 135 days worth of podcasts and apparently I've "saved" 46 days by increasi
by Thlom 4y ago
Best part of PocketCast is the stats. It can tell me that since 2016 I've listened to 135 days worth of podcasts and apparently I've "saved" 46 days by increasing the playback speed and 3 days from trimming silence. (I also have 350 hours in my "up next" queue ...)
- hairofadog 4y agoI like Pocket Casts and I’m not knocking the fact that they have them or that other people like them, but stats like these make me feel existential dread.
- myko 4y agoThat's so interesting, I never considered it but think I understand how you feel. I've always wanted more stats like this. I expected/hoped Google Play Music (and now the inferior YouTube Music) would provide amazing overviews of what you listen to. I wish I had stats on the music I listened to in WinAmp in the 90s and a way to see the change in my musical tastes (and the consistent threads through the years). I bet I could track relationships very easily by the playlists I listened to.
- Thlom 4y agoI used last.fm back in the early 00’s. I don’t think it logged playlists, but it did log every song you listened to. It kind of faded away when streaming services took over which he no or variable support for last.fm.
- crossroadsguy 4y agohttps://listenbrainz.org/user/<musicbrainz https://listenbrainz.org/user/<musicbrainz user id>/ is what I have used and it has been pretty good so far.
- gernb 4y agoyea... reminds me of seeing the number of hours a friend had put into EverQuest. I'm sure I'd be appalled at many of my own stats for my own activities
- fomine3 4y agoSteam's play hours is the worst one for me
- therealdrag0 4y agoIn Overcast I have “Smart Speed has saved you and extra 252 hours beyond speed adjustments alone,” which is gnarly. But I don’t see any total listening stats bummer.
- whoooooo123 4y agoWow, I've been using PocketCasts for a couple of years and I didn't even notice this feature before. Nice to learn that I've hit the "advance 30 seconds" button enough times to have missed out on over five hours of ads. What a fantastic non-use of time.
- usrme 4y agoThese same stats are also present in Podcast Addict[1]! As an aside: my own listening stats show that since 2017 I've listened to 149 days worth of podcasts. --- [1]: https://www.podcastaddict.com/ https://www.podcastaddict.com/
- andrepd 4y agoAntennaPod also has those stats :) I was a pretty hardcore fan of pocketcasts but eventually switched to AntennaPod and I couldn't be happier.
- mhb 4y agoWhy?
- andrepd 4y agoPocketCasts is a superb app but I saw AntennaPod on f-droid, so I thought to give it a go. I was pleasantly surprised, the interface is very nice and syncs with gpodder.net
- remram 4y agoI think the question is: is AntennaPod better? Or did you switch because it was open-source and good enough?
- intuxikated 4y agoI've been using AntennaPod for years, my question is, is there any reason to switch to Pocket Casts? Aside from the sync-feature which seems nice. Everything else in the feature-list seems available in AntennaPod as well.
- dcormier 4y agoI don’t know if AntennaPod has it, but with syncing you also get a desktop (macOS/Windows/web) app. I use this to I listen while work, and switch to my phone at other times.
- vanous 4y agoOpen source and without tracking. That is better than good enough. https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/424 https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android/issues/42...
- megaman821 4y agoNow you are making me feel like a listen to too many podcasts. I have 306 days since 2015. They are just so convenient to slot in. I listen during household chores, walks, and drives.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoImagine how much time we can save by skipping ads and sponsors.
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- cercatrova 4y agoMaybe someone can make a SponsorBlock fork now that it's open source.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoI hope uBlock Origin integrates it. The real feature is the database of time stamps relating to sponsored content, just like ad blocker filter lists.
- Glant 4y agoIs it based off of a database? Even fairly small YouTube channels seem to work with sponsor block as soon as the videos are uploaded. I always assumed YouTube requires creators to mark which sections are sponsored, and sponsor block has some way of looking that up.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoAccording to Wikipedia, the data is sourced from users. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SponsorBlock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SponsorBlock > The extension relies on a user-submitted database to identify sponsorships in videos. > Extension users can submit segments in videos and vote on segments others have submitted.
- dns_snek 4y agoYeah, it's crowdsourced and user-moderated. It's open source, including all of the data. https://sponsor.ajay.app/about https://sponsor.ajay.app/about https://api.sponsor.ajay.app/database https://api.sponsor.ajay.app/database
- Cub3 4y agoCompletely agree, I've also started buying DRM free audiobooks and storing them in the pocketcasts files, at 116h in my "up next" queue --- Since 14 October 2015 you've listened for: *143 days 4 hours* Skipping 6 days 17 hours Variable Speed 17 days 10 hours Trim Silence 7 days 10 hours Auto Skipping 12 hours 17 mins