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  • Another vote for Antennapod.

    Now that it has **rudimentary Ad-Skipping **

    You can set et to skip X seconds in the beginning and Y seconds at the end of each podcast individually.

    Maybe one day we will get Sponsor block integration for crowd sourced ad skipping , or AI using the crowd sourced skip points as a guide to fine-tune skipping on device , ( everyone tends to get different length advertisements , depending on targetting or region )

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  • That is ACC, still alive and kicking. Here is a gui front end for it, you can get it from fdroid or GitHub https://github.com/MatteCarra/AccA

  • Music Piracy Is Back, Baby
  • The some of the old music sites are still there. But I would avoid torrentgalaxy.to it has curated weekly albums of top playlists from Spotify, tiktok, etc that have all the new stuff updated every week, for your local playback displeasure. Only uncool people play locally stored music, all the cool kids stream. Do not go there.

  • Looking for the simplest means of playing videos from a USB storage device on a non-smart TV
  • I did go with a Pi option for the main TV, for the secondary one picked a discounted Firestick + wolflauncher using this tutorial https://troypoint.com/wolf-launcher/

    The Pi does a lot more 💪 besides media playback for the TV while it's on , but the Firestick was $19.99 at some sale 🤷

  • Looking for the simplest means of playing videos from a USB storage device on a non-smart TV
  • Years ago a $9.99 el cheapo Walmart DVD player was my first USB media player on an old CRT TV.

  • Looking for the simplest means of playing videos from a USB storage device on a non-smart TV
  • Custom launcher like Wolf Launcher,Yes. Not a custom ROM.

  • Looking for the simplest means of playing videos from a USB storage device on a non-smart TV
  • +1 on that.

    But...by the time you put together the bill of quantities for the Pi, Case, Power brick, Active cooling, remote.... The 1080p Firestick becomes cheaper. The Firesticks advert filled UI can be wrangled using a custom launcher.

  • SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS
  • That makes sense, comments are an issue with NewPipe. Please open an issue on the NewPipe GitHub about that and the watch-later list.

    The functionality will only get added if users ask for it. The idea for NewPipe in the beginning was a light-weight YouTube frontend with offline subscriptions ( i.e. no need to login ). Bits and bobs got added as and when user requests came in.

  • SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS
  • For the phone the easiest way is NewPipe with Sponsorblock https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

    One step above it , slightly more involved is ,YouTube-Revanced. The step by step walkthrough is in this thread, no command line stuff just follow the steps religiously. https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/_/

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  • The "GLP-1 queue" & the "Non-GLP-1 queue".

  • Voyager seems to be the second most used client, according to poll
  • It's Scientology, question it or the leader and get hounded.

  • [Feature suggestion] Option to list all the communities of an instance
  • Yes, this is required. This aids in the discovery of communities that the user may not have considered joining. Or they were aware of the idea but lacked a keyword to locate the community.

    ~~An even bigger thing would be something like https://lemmyverse.net/communities ... though that is a big ask ... ~~