6/27/2023 0 Comments Pocket casts web interfaceIf there is a podcast with chapters (ATP, MPU) I can determine which chapters I want to listen to. The KILLER FEATURE though - chapter pre-selection. My main app for podcastsĬastro - also has enhance voices, trim silence and has features similar to Pocket Casts. Pocket Casts - Available on many platforms, trim silence (I use MAX), voice boost (I rarely use), great Apple Watch app, iPad app, best web app of the big 3. Without getting into a 12 page opus on my podcast app experiences, I’ll try to sum things up quickly. I’m primarily a Pocket Casts guy though, so they won my vote. I just don’t understand it.I know I mentioned that I’m using Castro in another thread, and that’s true - right now. I was hoping Apple Podcasts would not have this behavior (y ou already friggin downloaded the show, it’s not streaming WTF) but it does the same thing. Even when I did download the shows in Pocket Casts, there was this quirk where if I pulled into a parking garage and it disrupted the internet connection, it would stop playing the show seemingly until it had a bit of internet again. In Pocket Casts, I had to flick a setting to ask it to do that rather than stream the shows by default. One minor thing I like about Apple Podcasts is that when I “follow” a show, it automatically assumes it should download copies of those shows. I don’t actually use the desktop app much, but I might start since the syncing works pretty well. So yeah, not great, but I’m gonna give it a shot for a while anyway. It doesn’t offer to sync with other apps. It doesn’t have a listening queue feature. It doesn’t auto-archive old shows as well as I’d like. You can’t swipe away “subscription” episodes on shows that offer them but you don’t subscribe. It shows the wrong artwork for shows sometimes. There are too many discovery features (which I shouldn’t be complaining about because discovery is certainly an issue in podcasting, but here we are) and less emphasis on my chosen shows and my listening status of each. I don’t like the interface as much as PocketCasts. I’m only a week or so in, and it’s… fine. Not that they make perfect software, but no way are they going to have a podcast app that crashes every day for users just trying to listen to podcasts. The main reason I’m switching back is that I also trust Apple to have an app that doesn’t crash every day. ShopTalkShow statistics have Apple Podcasts as the clear front-runner. The Podcasts app, for both iOS and macOS, doesn’t cost anything and helps users discover, download, and listen to shows. subscriptions) aren’t hitting home, but all in all, they’ve done nothing but help the podcasting world and have done it for “free” (read: an investment in keeping people on Apple hardware). Maybe the apps aren’t great, maybe their few attempts at innovation (e.g. We can thank Apple for the initial success of podcasting, and for not screwing it up over the years (unlike Spotify - “exclusive” podcasts can suck it). I feel like Apple deserves another shot at it. Manually, which ruffles my API-loving feathers. I wanna like Airshow but I haven’t been able to get it to work (literally shows a blank screen when I open it) and from what I understand is perhaps a bit under-featured for what I like. It’s the other mega-popular and fairly indie podcast player. And I can’t just re-open it and hit play again, it’s forgotten where I was. Nearly every car trip I put a podcast on, it’ll crash once. I love podcasts, but the only time I really have to listen to them is in the car (CarPlay), and my trips are usually 10-15 minutes (I’m a 1.5×-er). After (a lot?) of years using Pocket Casts, and thinking how cool it is that it’s fully open source now, I’ve moved off it.
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