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Podcast management

Google has planned to close its application Google Podcast on June 23, 2024, only 6 years after its creation. An opportunity to remind you to choose wisely the type of solution in order to manage your personnal information. For information Google Podcast will move over to YouTube Music which should certainly help Google to gain more market share over podcasting and also video podcasting.

What is a Podcast ? A podcast is a digital format, like a digital audio file, available as an episodic seriey and that you can download over Internet to a personnal device to listen or watch when you choose.

Are you managing your podcast downloads, subscriptions efficiently today ? Can your podcast management solution handles audios and videos as well ? Can you read episodes online or offline ?

Podcast management solutions should do that for you. They should include features helping you managing efficiently your subscriptions and downloads.

Podcast carries various information such as :

  • Subscription web address
  • Subscription image
  • Subscription description
  • Episode title
  • Episode date of release
  • Episode time
  • Episode description

Podcast management solution have these basic features :

  • Discovering new podcast by exploring the web or trusted sources
  • Subscribe or unsubscribe to podcast feed
  • Download episodes
  • Add or remove podcast episode to a playlist
  • Read online (by streaming) or offline (downloaded podcast) the episode which can be an audio or a video
  • Read your playlist switching from one episode to the next automatically
  • Dispose episodes automatically after reading

But it can also propose these advanced functionalities :

  • Calculate & show estimated time to read podcast
  • Accelerate the speed of reading
  • Transcript the audio
  • Mark episode as read or unread
  • Cast the episode on other devices such as Alexa or you television
  • Import and export subscription as a standard format OPML which stands for Outline Processor Markup Language which is an XML format to exchange lists of web feeds.

Options to manage podcast may include : 

  • Audio options such as volume of reading, start and stop reading automatically when your earplugs are connected or not, read in background
  • Chose and place where to store episode downloads
  • Refresh subscription and download automatically every x minutes.
  • Archive automatically episodes when it is read or over x days old
  • Synchronize episode to other devices such as your smartphone
  • Backup automatically your episodes

Podcast management may integrate with other domains :

  • Feed management
  • Audio management
  • Video management

Finally here is our top five of podcast management solution :

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