Antennapod: Remove silence in podcast episodes

[sgibb]

It would be great if AntennaPod could remove silence within episodes to save some playback time (similar to overcast's smart speed or pocket casts' silence removal feature).

[douglasawh]

I'm new here. Is there an appropriate way to +1 feature requests?

[sgibb]

I opened a bounty for this feature:

[HaBaLeS]

Here is an idea how the behaviour could be defined. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/truncate_silence.html

• Silence up to 0.5s is ok
• Silence is defined as something that is lower than -20db Level

I don't know if it is possible to detect _silence_ in advance without doing a lot of CPU intense, battery wasting, operations.

[forivall]

I found some iOS / Swift sample code here: https://github.com/katiesmillie/skippause/blob/master/SkipPause/AudioViewController.swift looks pretty good to base it off of that.

[kiuuik]

a similar feature was apparently recently developed for the FOSS Android audio book player Voice/Material Player, see this pull request.

[timkrief]

This feature also exists in the gpl3 streaming app newpipe: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe I think it was recently added.

[philipmnelson]

I'm thinking about taking a crack at this because I really want this feature.

[ByteHamster]

Now that we have included ExoPlayer, it should be quite easy to implement :)

[HaBaLeS]

Exoplayer 2.7.3 is used, >2.8.0 is needed for the SkipAudio Feature in ExpPlayer.

• https://google.github.io/ExoPlayer/doc/reference/com/google/android/exoplayer2/PlaybackParameters.html
• https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/release-v2/RELEASENOTES.md

I will give it a try.

[HaBaLeS]

Created a PullRequest: #2961 for this Feature.

If you want to give it a try, merge the PR, enable ExoPlayer in the Settings -> Playback -MediaPlayer and switch skip silence on. There is no button in the Player Controls. Feel free to add one ;-)

[sbadux]

Created a PullRequest: #2961 for this Feature.

If you want to give it a try, merge the PR, enable ExoPlayer in the Settings -> Playback -MediaPlayer and switch skip silence on. There is no button in the Player Controls. Feel free to add one ;-)

Thanks A LOT. Enabling Exo Player (in the next releases) will switch the silence remover on automatically?

[ByteHamster]

There will be a button in the player settings:

[sbadux]

There will be a button in the player settings:

Good! I can't wait for the new beta to be released :1st_place_medal:

[racuna]

Awesome!

[sgibb]

Great stuff, thank you very much @HaBaLeS!