https://ma.tt/2022/10/open-source-podcasting-client/ Skip to the content Search Matt Mullenweg Unlucky in Cards Menu * Home * About * Contact * Podcast * Twitter * Let's Work Together Search Search for: [ ] [Search] Close search Close Menu * Home * About * Contact * Podcast * Twitter * Let's Work Together Categories Asides Open Source Podcasting Client * Post author By Matt * Post date October 21, 2022 * 7 Comments on Open Source Podcasting Client Automattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, and since we've been tapping away trying to make the best podcast client for people who love listening to podcasts. And! The team has been working really hard to make those clients totally open source and available to the world, and it's now happened. You can see all the code behind the iOS app and the Android app, and modify it, make it your own, suggest a change, fix a bug, add a feature, fork it and make your own client, anything! If your code gets merged into core, it'll go out to users listening to literally millions of hours of podcasts a week. It's also unusual to be able to peek under the hood of a consumer mobile app that is this widely used and see how it works. Audio publishing and consumption is a beautiful complement to the web publishing that WordPress is already so good at, and that Automattic tries to nurture an ecosystem around. I love Spotify and Apple, and I hope that Pocket Casts can do for podcast clients what Firefox in the early days and Chromium now does for browsers -- push the state of the art, be manically focused on user control, and grow a more decentralized and open web. If you haven't tried Pocket Casts yet, install for iOS or Android, and here's how to import your subscriptions using a format called OPML. (And wouldn't it be nice if trying out a new social network was that easy?) Share this: * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) * Related Posts --------------------------------------------------------------------- - Tumblr Updates --------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 replies on "Open Source Podcasting Client" [488b73ab60920045][488b73ab60920045]Paola Cantadoresays: October 21, 2022 at 10:55 am You are doing a wonderful job. Reply [9464ca0fcc3a2ffd][9464ca0fcc3a2ffd]Jim Krenzsays: October 21, 2022 at 11:00 am Thank you! I use Pocket Casts every day. I am very happy that it is thriving! Reply [8354e63bae74e351][8354e63bae74e351]Alex Medicksays: October 21, 2022 at 11:26 am 1. Amazing! 2. Am I detecting a hint of what's to come to Tumblr with that last line? Reply [767fc9c115a1b989][767fc9c115a1b989]Mattsays: October 21, 2022 at 12:42 pm Maybe! ReplyBy Post Author [81d8775075ce1a23][81d8775075ce1a23]Michael Brooks | Website Developer/Bloggersays: October 21, 2022 at 1:41 pm This is awesome! Is that a hint to Automattic purchasing or developing some kind of social networking site? Some new Tumblr feature? Reply [dc8d5bc3740c2bd1][dc8d5bc3740c2bd1]Flotsamsays: October 22, 2022 at 11:22 pm "I hope that Pocket Casts can do for podcast clients what Firefox in the early days and Chromium now does for browsers" Firefox ended the Microsoft browser monopoly. Chromium is aiming for a new browser monopoly. Chromium is not a good example of anything. Reply [767fc9c115a1b989][767fc9c115a1b989]Mattsays: October 23, 2022 at 3:58 am You're making the common mistake of conflating something controlled by a single entity, like the old Internet Explorer, with open source that regardless of its leadership or governance belongs to all of us and can be transparent, modified, forked, and redistributed. We don't talk about Linux's monopoly on kernels, or SQLite's monopoly on self-contained databases, because while each becomes a standard based on its merits and has a market share that bypasses anything Microsoft or Google could have ever dreamed of, they remain responsive and serve their users, are forked when they're not, and the transparency of the code make allows for others to build on top of them in a way that I expect will continue for generations. ReplyBy Post Author --------------------------------------------------------------------- SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS Cancel reply (c) 2022 Matt Mullenweg Powered by WordPress To the top | Up |