Even more programs for the night

to culminate with our collection of programs to use throughout the day, We'll look at a few more apps for listening to audiobooks and recommend others for finding and playing podcasts.

We had pointed out that listening to a sound file, whether it is an audiobook or a podcast, has a relaxing effect by allowing us to forget about the problems of the day and the rhythm of reading helps to calm us down. However, we must establish some nuances with the subject of podcasts. You have to be very careful with the selection of topics and participants.

A podcast about politics with the participants fighting each other will not be very relaxing.

Even more programs for the night

Audiobook player for-Android

Listening to audiobooks on the computer before going to sleep is impractical, although we can always schedule the shutdown. However, a smartphone or tablet is a better option. Let's see an application for Android that we can find in the alternative store F-DROID

Voice Audiobook Player

Es a player with an intuitive interface that allows us to jump to any position within the text or remember how far we got. Shutdown can also be scheduled.

podcast players

Spokesperson

The ElementaryOS p podcast playerIt can be installed in the other distributions in format Flat pack.

Some of its characteristics are:

• Compatible with the iTunes store and Internet Archive.
• Support for audio and video podcasts.
• Podcasts can be played from your location or downloaded.
• The program remembers where we stopped listening.
• Smart library management and the ability to import and export titles.

Clementine

In this case we a complete audio library manager with audio playback and podcast download functions. In addition to playing files from online services such as OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox, it allows you to listen to radio stations from Magnatune Spotify, Jamendo, SomaFM, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, Soundcloud JAZZRADIO.com, Icecast and Subsonic.

It also comes with many predefined podcast sources as well as allowing us to add our own.

GPodder

It's a Media aggregator and podcast subscription manager that integrates with the podcast subscription management site gpodder.net. to sync subscriptions and continue listening on other devices.

It is not a player, but rather it shows us a list of episodes that is obtained using the RSS protocol, and when we select one it sends it to the multimedia player installed by default.

Rhythmbox

The GNOME project music collection manager it comes pre-installed in almost all the distributions that come with this desktop and can be easily installed from the repositories of the others. We just have to add the origin of the podcast and it will show us the list of episodes so we can download them.

XIX Music Player

We are talking about another player with functions for podcasts.
Some of the functions, in addition to downloading and playing podcasts that we can mention are:

• Support for MP3, OGG, M4A (without DRM), OPUS, AAC, APE ,FLAC, DFF and WAV formats.
• Creation of playlists.
• Reproduction of online radios with preselection function.
• Audio download from Internet Archive.
• Recording programming of online radio stations.
• Changing the playback speed.
• File search.

Podcast players for Android

Car Cast

If you want to sleep on the train or the bus you will love This application pDesigned for long scrolling as it has large buttons and large font text.

To subscribe to a podcast it is only necessary to add the url of the source and the program will automatically download the most recent episodes to play online.

escapepod

This is a simple player of podcasts with minimal features. Playback controls and the last 5 episodes of each title on the list are displayed on the single screen. Its search engine is not too complex, so it is recommended to use the browser. Clicking on an RSS link in this and the program will open automatically.

Escapepod only stores up to a maximum of 5 episodes and, since it doesn't support a playlist, you have to click on the episode you want to play next.