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Is Pocket Cast the player that had a rather impressive silence removing feature, and is that part also now free software?

I can't remember which app I used before moving to the free software antennapod, though I remember that being the one feature I missed. Various free software apps now have a version of the feature, but they seem to remove all silence killing any kind of comedic timing.

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You’re probably thinking of Overcast. Marco, the developer, calls the feature smart speed. It’s great.

Pocket Casts has it, too.

I'll have to check it out. I did not know that.

Damn. Not sure why it's so tough to copy, the key aspect seemed to be choosing how long a gap is skipped that none of the free software versions have. That doesn't seem like a difficult feature to add nor one likely patentable but I'm hardly an expert.

Thanks.

Pocket Cast has a silence removing feature, but in my opinion it's rather bad (on iOS at least). It was the main reason for me together with artefacts when speeding the playback up to change to another podcast player. Both Castro (which I'm using now) and Overcast have a superb silence removing feature and artefact-free speedup.

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