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Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Matt@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Does Google Podcasts really not support that? Because that's like... the basics.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The current Podcasts app does, but Youtube doesn't unless you pay for premium. After the migration, if that policy doesn't change, google's platform of the week will be useless for podcasts.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

YouTube Music is a different app altogether, on mobile devices at least.

[–] dept@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

YouTube music allows background playback

[–] Matt@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

Google Podcasts does, but background play is a premium feature on YouTube Music.

[–] narwhalperson@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It used to. They paywalled it with YouTube premium.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Podcasts does but not YouTube unless you pay for a subscription