Anyone have any recommendations for podcasts apps that have ad skipping? Preferably iOS. I had no problem with the host read sponsor ads but now these greedy fucks are going overboard with these interstitial ads that are loud, obnoxious and in random languages that I don't understand. Some fuckers have these ads play every 5mins and all the resulted in was just me unsubbing from them.Why do advertisers think they can be as greedy as obnoxious as possible without any consequences? Did they not learn anything from web ads? Do you remember when ads would take over entire pages? The fucking audacity of these sub humans. Then these greedy fucks start reeeing and seething when ad blockers came in to make the internet sane again.
>>110271669>claude summarize this podcast in 4 sentencesdone.
>>110271717I actually want to listen to the podcast. I like listening to them while programming, it keeps my adhd in check but those interstitial ads are incredibly flow breaking because of how awful they are
>>110271669Bump for interest. I like the stock iOS podcasts app, but the injected ads from one provider are fucking obnoxious and I would rather listen to mp3s, but I often need the transcript (search) feature.
Guess I'll have to make one myself.I'm thinking a PWAWASM version of Whisper.cppWASM version of llama.cppQwen3 1.7BThe idea would be you download the podcast episode locally, use whisper to make a transcription with timestamps, run transcription through LLM and ask it for a json output with timestamp of where the ads are.Now when you play the episode it will skip over the ad segments and you don't need to edit the audio file.What do you guys think?
>>110271669just use the fast forward 30 seconds button. thats what i do
>>110273666Sometimes my hands are either unavailable or dirty, so I'm forced through the humiliation ritual of listening to an ad
>>110273666ok evil boomer
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>>110273666>>110271669The auto-insert of ads screws this up. I've found that the only way to get a mostly reliable pure audio file that you can do things like "skip" correctly on is to use the "download" feature instead of "streaming" it.For making your own you just need some youtube-dl script and if it's a popular podcast on yt or something you can use sponsorblock to auto edit segments for you and generate a standard audio file you can dump into any music player queue.Ask yourself why there isn't an app that gives you podcasts that you can just click on and 'buy full episode' for a small one-time fee. It would have no ads or BS, just a clean version, no subscriptions, etc.
