Hey all,
For quite a long time now I’ve been working Pinepods. It’s a Rust based podcast management system that manages podcasts with multi-user support and relies on a central database with clients to connect to it. It’s complete with a browser based client where your podcasts and settings follow you from device to device due to everything being stored on your server. There’s installable clients on just about every platform - now including a beta build of an Android client! (Also a flatpak, aur, Mac, windows, deb, appimage, and rpm client as well)
Over time this project has really grown into something great, and many quality of life features have been baked in. The experience of using Pinepods at this point is getting close to some of the larger self-hosted projects such as Immich, and as feature complete as a client such as AntenaPods. I can’t believe that a project hasn’t previously heavily focused on becoming a fully feature complete Self-hosted Podcast platform because of how rooted in the spirit of open source the podcast ecosystem is built to be.
So many nice to haves have been added at this point:
- chapter support
- sorting/filtering/searching throughout
- RSS feed hosting for other apps to use
- Great mobile support everywhere (PWA, beta android client)
- Nextcloud/Gpodder sync support -Postgres or MariaDB
- simple API’s for things like Homepage Widgets!
And lately I’ve even been working on a feature that allows you to subscribe to hosts! This will let you follow them from show to show. I’ve built a side project called PodPeopleDB for that: https://www.pinepods.online/blog/2024/12/08/podpeople-db
Chances are, if there’s a feature in a podcast app that’s a must have for you, it’s already built in, and if it isn’t, I want to know about it so I can add it!
If you’re on the fence you can try it out without installing the server too! Check the website for more info!
Now is the perfect time to check it out and enjoy continued feature updates! Feel free to open issues or PRs if you experience any problems. Or drop a line on the discord. I’m happy to help!
GitHub: https://github.com/madeofpendletonwool/Pinepods
Official site: https://pinepods.online/
In case you’re unware. What is podcasting 2.0?
Exclusion filtering! What a great idea! You can quickly filter by keyword for episodes currently but you can’t exclude certain words. I will get exclusion filtering added. The code is already in place for it!
Related feature on my wish list: I’d love a way to basically fork a feed based on regex pattern matching. This would be useful for some premium feeds that lump multiple podcasts together. For example, one of my Patreon feeds includes three shows: the ad-free main feed, the first-tier weekly premium feed, and the second-tier monthly premium feed.
I don’t want to filter them out because I DO want to listen to all of them, but for organizational purposes I don’t want them lumped together. I’d prefer to display these as two or three separate podcasts in my display.
Another example is the Maximum Fun premium BoCo feed. They include the bonus content for ALL their shows (which is…a lot) in a single feed. I only listen to about half a dozen, and even that is a bit of a mess in one feed!