So lately I’ve been seeing shorts on YT about a D&D podcast that looks mildly interesting and I’m running out of good webnovels to listen to with TTS at work. So I thought I would give podcasts a shot…

They have instream ads… And it’s the same damn ad on repeat Not the same ad, that was a Conan podcast I listened to in the past, but still it’s like 4 ads in a row. Is there a tool to download these podcasts and strip their ads? I just read that there’s a way to download them via rss so that’s what I’m going to try now. But manual ad removal might get tedious over a hundred episodes.

I can’t imagine with all the nerd centric podcasts that we wouldn’t have automated a way to extract ads by this point.

    • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      11 months ago

      Signed up, I don’t mind paying but it seems like everything is $10, like I’m not signing up to Rooster Teeth’s site and pay $7/month just so I can listen to a single podcast. It’s taking me about 5 mins a file to open, strip the intro, find the midroll, delete the midroll and strip the outroll. Will that get annoying longterm… probably, but it saves me paying for a bunch of content I don’t care about.