Google Podcasts app goes away, and customers will not have the ability to hearken to their favorite exhibits beginning Tuesday, April 2, 2024. The Podcast app now exhibits a message when opening the app highlighting that it’s going to not be useful after the due date and that customers ought to export their subscriptions to entry them as soon as the app is discontinued. The tech large can be selling YouTube Music as a substitute house to hearken to podcasts and has even added a instrument to simply export subscriptions.
Opening the Google Podcasts app now exhibits a message which states, “After April 2, 2024, you’ll not have the ability to hearken to podcasts on Google Podcasts. You may get podcasts, music, and extra, all on the YouTube Music app as a substitute.” The corporate first revealed its plans to discontinue the app in September 2023, when in a weblog publish it added the characteristic to look at and hearken to podcasts on YouTube Music within the US.
Even because the Podcasts app has greater than 500 million downloads simply on Android’s Play Retailer, Google cited information from Edison Analysis, a agency that tracks information on podcasts, to focus on that about 23 % of weekly podcast customers within the US want listening to the exhibits on YouTube Music versus simply 4 % on Google Podcasts.
With the shutdown, customers can not play content material on the Podcasts app, nonetheless, Google will present just a few extra days for customers to export their information and subscriptions to both YouTube Music or one other app of their selecting. Whereas the tech large has supplied a instrument to simply export subscriptions to YouTube Music, shifting to different apps would require turning the subscriptions into an OPML file first. Alternatively, customers can merely add the podcasts manually utilizing the RSS feed.
For these customers who intend to change to YouTube Music, Google has additionally created a help web page with a step-by-step information to make the transition straightforward. Nevertheless, it needs to be famous that some podcasts is probably not transferred utilizing this course of. If a podcast doesn’t adjust to YouTube’s Neighborhood Tips, it is not going to be transferred robotically. If this occurs, customers can go to Library > choose Podcasts > click on Add podcast > select Add a podcast by RSS feed.