Show HN: I built a local-first podcast app
wherever.audiohttps://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/m...
Also personally I do not prefer to play podcasts with a podcast app. I just want it to download the files to a directory which I then sync with another audio player. Does your app make that workflow easy?
Fun sidenote, what you're describing is how the first podcast apps worked back in the day!
I really appreciate the local-first, self-contained but very portable architecture, with an optional server connection to handle CORS and index and whatnot; that's a really solid approach.
Hopefully this isn't too annoying, but I saw you open-sourced what looks like the backend, do you have any plans/interest to open-source the front end as well, for people who might want to self-host?
It took me about 3 minutes to add to my home screen, export a opml from pocket casts and import it to whatever.
Having offline downloads, ability to adjust playback speed etc is really cool too.
Nice work!
I'm on my phone now, so I'm curious to see how it looks on a browser. Obviously syncing of podcasts / listening positions is not going to work, by design?
The AI search is actually kind of cool for discovering podcasts too, I kind of rolled my eyes a bit when I read it, but it actually worked ok for a query I tried, and I do find it difficult to find new podcasts.
> Obviously syncing of podcasts / listening positions is not going to work, by design?
Not sure, can you say more? Quick potential answers in the meantime.
For syncing, there's an auto-sync that runs in the background and prioritizes the shows that you've listened to most in the past month, but eventually cycles through all podcasts that you follow. There's also a manual sync on the Following page.
For listening positions, there's a Queue where you can drag individual episodes up and down to change the order, and playback will automatically cycle to the next episode in the queue when the playing episode finishes.
Found a bug:
- Search for a podcast creator
- Click on a result
- A modal will pop up with a list of episodes
- Click the title of the episode
Expected details of that episode. Instead the modal is dismissed and I see the search results again.
Note that if I click View Details to go to the creator page, a similar list of episodes show up and clicking the title of those opens up a modal with episode information as I would expect.
Am on Firefox Nightly on GrapheneOS
I don't see iOS 14 in the list of simulators that ships with XCode, so this could be a challenge to reproduce.
Another option: try another browser. So if you're using Safari, try e.g. Chrome or Firefox.
[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/downloading-...