For some background: I can’t stand ads, so currently I have YouTube Premium and watch some video podcasts there. I’ve been trying to get into podcasts that don’t have video but the ads are always a deal breaker for me.
So if I pay for an ad free podcast in Apple Podcasts for example, is there a way to automatically download new episodes of that? Ideally via CLI, but I’m open to GUI suggestions as well (running on KDE Plasma).
If the ads for a feed are in a predictable position (like first two minutes, last minute, whatever) one can use sox or similar to trim the file at that point to effectively remove the ads.
But like some of the other commenters here, when the podcast is available by patreon I use that feed and avoid the whole problem.