The fast-forward issue was circumvented by enabling web video transcoding (Generate audio file optimized for podcasts · Issue #7236 · Chocobozzz/PeerTube · GitHub), and I began to feel confident in recommending this to others. But first I wanted to test this with some apps “normal people” are using, since I don’t believe most people use AntennaPod. Turns out that two of the most popular podcast apps on Google Play, have problems using the podcast url from Peertube.
- Podcast Player from Castbox.FM: Gives an error message: Incorrect URL.
- Podcast Addict: Manages to open the URL, but not to fetch any content. Clicking on the entry sends me to the webpage.
I guess this tells more about the state of podcast apps than it does about Peertube, but it’s unfortunate that it is like this.