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I would totally pay for an app that kept my contact information in order without selling it to other people. Is this coming to Android anytime soon?

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I can almost 100% say that this is never coming to Android. Casey Liss is one of the co-hosts of Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) and they are Apple users through and through. Marco Arment, maker of the great Overcast podcast client, is also a co-host alongside John Siracusa of Mac OS X/Ars reviews fame.

TL;DR No this is not coming to Android.

Well Marco did outsource porting Instapaper to Android before he sold it...

https://marco.org/2012/06/06/instapaper-for-android

But I doubt he would do the same for Overcast.

Just yesterday was searching on the Google Play Store if there is an Android version of Overcast. There is no decent podcast app that has this particular feature of Overcast - cutting off silence.

One of the most used podcast apps on Android has to be Pocket Casts, and they support removing silence : https://support.pocketcasts.com/article/audio-effects/

If you care to roll your own solution, I think the silenceremove filter of ffmpeg should do what you want (I've not used it myself.)

https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#silenceremove

I really wish I could get overcast on Android, but I'm not hopeful.

Surely on F-Droid there must be a contacts app that isn't spyware.

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