Hello c/datahoarder! I need your help. Not sure whether this has been asked before—I’ve tried searching the web, but the only advice I can find is how to download episodes for podcasts whose feeds are still active.

The problem I’m trying to solve is that one of my favorite podcasts, Endless Boundaries Jam Radio, went offline during the pandemic. All the usual feed aggregators still show up in internet searches, but as they are not file hosts, just feed aggregators, all the episodes are now dead links (e.g. Podbay, Tunein, etc).

Thing is, I had already downloaded several episodes using the Playapod app on my iPhone. It’s usable for now, but I’m very concerned about when I need to upgrade to a new phone.

Is there a trick for access the individual files on my iPhone that were downloaded through a third party app such as Playapod? TIA

EDIT: I figured out how to do what I wanted. Once I had installed ifuse and related dependencies (e.g. libimobiledevice) on my Linux PC, I could connect my iPhone to my PC via USB and browse the files on my iPhone in my distro’s default file browser. Many folders are named as GUIDs, making it harder to tell what’s what by just looking at their names, but I narrowed down the right folder by opening up the Disk Usage Analyzer app in Linux. In my case, the Playapod app is one of very few apps with more than a gigabyte of data. I still have to go through and figure out which episode each mp3 file is, but that’s still better than having nothing at all.

Thanks to everyone who responded. I hope this info helps anyone else in a similar predicament!

  • bela@lemm.ee
    4·
    11 months ago

    According to this you can copy stuff onto it. I assume you’ve tried to see if you can copy off? If not, then there is probably no way to extract the audio, short of recording it as it plays.

    I was only able to find a couple episodes online. One on someone’s google drive and a few in the wayback machine, all from this thread

    edit: if playapod has an option to store files on an sd card, that’s usually stored unencrypted. (on android anyway…)

    edit: wait iphones don’t even have sd card slots, right? lol

    • bela@lemm.ee
      2·
      11 months ago

      Actually there might be a whole bunch more in the wayback machine. (though still not that many) here

      Just sort by mime type and check out audio/* for items of interest

      • yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        This helped me, thank you so much! I filtered by .mp3 and I’m using DownThemAll to download all the episodes in batches.

        ETA at first, all the downloads failed because I was attempting to download multiple files simultaneously. After configuring DownThemAll to allow only one simultaneous download, it’s been smooth sailing.

  • SplicedBrainwrap@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    The Playapod website mentions a web player, does the web player happen to sync with your app on the phone? If so maybe you can extract it through the web player on a desktop.

    • yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Thanks for the idea. I figured out how to get what I wanted and edited the solution into my post. Thanks again!