I’m happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there’s some other way to make it work. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.
i would start listening to podcasts again if something like this existed.
I would love this too.
Right now I use Pocket Casts which lets you set a specific time to skip at the beginning or end of a podcast. Useful for static ads but not for the dynamic ones throughout the show.
I also use Pocket Casts …and I just skip the ads manually. I set the skip forward time to 30 seconds and I set skip back to 10, makes it pretty easy to hop past them.
Podcasts are yet one more thing that ads have more or less ruined for me. I rarely listen to them due to the sponsorships. It is like trying to watch YouTube on my TV through the YouTube app instead of the Smarttube app.
Man I love that app so much it really leveled up my TV YouTube experience especially with sponsorblock built in
I wish there was. I listen to this particular podcast that has the same sponsor for years and they do make it much more entertaining than the average podcast, but I still find myself manually skipping it every time I sense it coming. And because they make it more part of the conversation, the ad moment lasts for minutes each episode, so I’m sure every regular listener had enough of that.
I use podcast addicts’ auto slip feature. Most podcasts I listen to have a set ad of a set length at the start or end. You can set an auto slip on a per subscription basis. Works for me
Antennapod lets you customize how far your fast forward button skips ahead.
But every ad on every episode of every podcast can be different. Right now with pocket cast, I skip ahead 30 seconds at a time then go back 10 seconds. But I’d rather automate it
Saaaame. Only thing I can think of is a server to download the podcasts, then some kind of ML/AI/LLM chicanery to transcribe, ID and timestamp the sponsor segments? Then chop it out with ffmpeg?
Edit: looks like Podgrab can download the files, the rest might be doable with a bit of scripting.
Hm! I look forward to trying Antennapod or pocketcasts since Gpodcasts is getting the Google Funeral treatment. :( Thanks for the likely superior alternatives.
You can also set for each podcasts a skip intro and outro time.
Not quite what you’re looking for, but Overcast has Skip Intro and Skip Outro features. For each show, you can set an amount of time for the app to automatically skip over at the beginning and end of each episode. I find it super useful for some shows
I desperately want this as well.
I wish this existed. I figure it’s a matter of time before someone develops a ML solution.
I usually just try to hunt down bootleg feeds. I can usually find one, or a Patreon feed that someone has shared.
Extremely interested in this as well, i might need to start learning android development now ;)
I think the only reasonable way to do that would be using AI since the sponsors are placed randomly throughout usually. Unless you listen to a specific podcast and they do same length of sponsor in same time slot every video you could automate something that cuts it out.
Sponsorblock does this with just regular I, not AI. E.G. crowdsourcing the sponsored segments
The podcasts I listen to, very larely have sponsors during the episode, what are you guys listening to?
Different podcasts
“Hey Siri, fast forward two minutes”
Idk what do you listen to, but when I listen to hour long podcast, I don’t care about 30 seconds sponsor. That’s not helpful, I know.
That’s a pretty reasonable ad load. Have you listened to 99% Invisible lately? Each episode is about 10 minutes long, and it seems like at least 50% of it is now ads and sponsorship stuff.
