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Seeking assistance getting AntennaPod, Podfetch, and GPodder to work together. (lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My goal is to be able to sync podcast episodes (the actual audio files) and their play state (played or unplayed, how many minutes I've already listened to) between devices, so I can stop listening to an episode on my phone, for example, and continue listening to the same episode on my desktop computer (continuing from the point in the episode where I stopped listening on my phone).

I'm using AntennaPod on GrapheneOS (Android 14), and for desktop podcast listening I'm using Podfetch (self hosted). I'm also self-hosting a GPodder instance, and in Podfetch I have GPODDER_INTEGRATION_ENABLED set to true.

In AntennaPod, I'm able to configure Synchronization to GPodder.net (though my own instance of GPodder is at a different domain, AntennaPod calls the GPodder configuration "GPodder.net"), enter my self-hosted URL and credentials, and AntennaPod logs in, but it fails to sync. I don't know where AntennaPod's logs are so I don't have any details about why the sync fails.

Also confusing to me is how to manage podcast subscriptions. It seems I can manually add podcasts to either GPodder or Podfetch, but adding a podcast to one doesn't add it to the other. The same happens with episodes: if I manually add the same podcast to both GPodder and Podfetch and download an episode in one environment, the episode isn't also downloaded in the other.

Has anyone successfully got these 3 apps working together? Can you help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't Podfetch integrate gpodder, so you don't need a separate gpodder instance? Or did I misunderstand that. Otherwise there is also a gpodder sync plugin for nextcloud I think. But yeah, I haven't found a satisfactory solution that works on Android and iOS myself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried everything from using the official service to self-host gpodder server, using the NC "app" you mentioned, a ton of different client on both mobile and desktop.

Never managed to sync anything besides the subscriptions. I just given up and use AntennaPod on Android for now, no sync only occasional backup.

I'm looking at other sync solutions like downloading and converting directly on my NC server and share the folder to my user, but that's equally useless only in different ways. 🫠

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think I managed to sync playback position (or maybe it was just played status?) with Antennapod and the NC app at some point, but it seemed slow and unreliable, and I couldn't use it on my iPad, so I stuck with Pocket Casts for now :(