I'm with you on this one. it's really easy to go "lol another Google app dead," but this one case I'm ok with. YouTube has become the place for video podcasts. it wasn't something YouTube pushed for, it just naturally happened as the site was well built for it. I used to have to use YouTube for video podcasts and pocket casts for audio. now I can just use YouTube music for both, and I find the UI much better at separating music and podcasts then Spotify.
it's annoying as hell that they don't have basic features in YouTube music yet tho, like mark as played or notifications for new episodes, which is crazy. you can't even search the RSS directory for audio podcasts, you have to manually put in the feed
url. it's the Google Play music shutdown all over again. but I still believe the idea of moving audio podcasts to YouTube music makes sense.
I'm with you on this one. it's really easy to go "lol another Google app dead," but this one case I'm ok with. YouTube has become the place for video podcasts. it wasn't something YouTube pushed for, it just naturally happened as the site was well built for it. I used to have to use YouTube for video podcasts and pocket casts for audio. now I can just use YouTube music for both, and I find the UI much better at separating music and podcasts then Spotify.
it's annoying as hell that they don't have basic features in YouTube music yet tho, like mark as played or notifications for new episodes, which is crazy. you can't even search the RSS directory for audio podcasts, you have to manually put in the feed url. it's the Google Play music shutdown all over again. but I still believe the idea of moving audio podcasts to YouTube music makes sense.