spicetify-hide-podcasts VS lofi

At least on desktop you can tweak the Spotify electron-based app with Spicetify[1].

There is already an extension to completely hide podcasts[2].

[1]: https://spicetify.app/

[2]: https://github.com/theRealPadster/spicetify-hide-podcasts

I love Joe Rogan. But you could always install Spicetify and this hide podcasts extension if you are really that triggered.

You absolutely need this

Not much you can do with the mobile app (without rolling back to an earlier version maybe), but for the desktop program there is an extension you can use which hides podcasts: https://github.com/theRealPadster/spicetify-hide-podcasts

I highly recommend this if you want to get rid of podcasts on the desktop apps.

Ran it on a "real" OSS project of mine (https://github.com/dvx/lofi/), and it was stuck at 99% loading for about 30 minutes. Then, when it finally parsed the codebase, when asked anything it always returns "Error: Internal error while locating sources."

At one point, this random prompt popped up: https://imgur.com/a/mYeluaU —what's "Onboard?"

In readme[0] small footprint named as an advantage instead:

> Design goals

> ≤ 100MB memory footprint

[0] https://github.com/dvx/lofi#design-goals

I do think that podcasting is ripe for disruption and a great candidate for a "super app" that can end up being people's go-to to listen to podcasts and be exposed to new ones.

Spotify did literally nothing to actually support podcasting as another vertical--which it 100% is. Podcasting isn't just "music" and it's a profound misunderstanding to believe that it is. It's honestly embarrassing to think that all they had to do is buy out Joe Rogan. To this day, I mostly listen to podcasts on YouTube. Spotify doesn't have transcripts, scrubbing, chapters, discoverability, "shorts," etc., etc. I run an open source Spotify player[1] and their API doesn't even have a podcast type/category (lol, they are actually "music videos" in the JSON payload). It's like podcasts don't even exist.

If anyone wants to build a podcasting platform, hit me up :)

[1] https://github.com/dvx/lofi/

Don't mean to hijack this thread, but I built out a mini Spotify player with visualization support: https://github.com/dvx/lofi

Even had a few folks contribute a couple of neat visualizations :)

Release notes are available here.

This is awesome! Will try to add it to the next release of https://github.com/dvx/lofi