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by treypitt 1039 days ago
Good riddance, what a dumpster fire. The tiny buttons for pause, replay, skip buttons are all right next to each other on the lock screen, so you often skip podcasts when you really want to pause or fast forward. on the other hand, the rewind 10-seconds button has half the real estate of the widget. Downloads arent automatically deleted even after the episode is completed (even if you mark as played or remove from queue). There's no skip intro/outro options.

Frankly, the Overcast app is one of the main things attracting me to iOS at this point, and a dearth of good native podcast clients is hurting the Pixel/Google ecosystem
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wlesieutre 1039 days ago
Have you tried Pocket Casts? https://pocketcasts.com/

It's now owned by Automattic (of Wordpress.com and tumblr) and the clients are open source

https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-android

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Fluorescence 1038 days ago
I switched from iOS/Overcast to Android/PocketCasts and I found it had a number of benefits which I struggle to recall now... batch downloads might be one of them.

My main bug bear is how how some screens are drawers and some screens are pages which makes navigation confusing. Even after years of use, I still keep accidentally closing the drawer screens when trying to scroll and trying to navigate backwards which isn't allowed. Please... just make them all pages so they behave consistently with the same navigation and gestures.

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wlesieutre 1038 days ago
I use PocketCasts on iOS and agree about the sheets, I think the theory is that your "Now Playing" page is basically an overlay that can exist anywhere in the app, so you can go around looking at other podcasts while you listen but quickly pop back in to what's playing. Apple Music is set up the same way, I wonder if that was the inspiration for that layout.
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aport 1039 days ago
I've used Pocket Casts for ~8 years. Can't recommend it enough, a really great app.
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alphabettsy 1039 days ago
Second this. I tried Overcast and moved back. The availability of an Android app and web client that syncs your progress is amazing.
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klauserc 1039 days ago
I'm pretty happy with _Podcast Republic_ on Android. Its a bit of a "power user" app, but I have yet to find something that I want to tweak that it doesn't let me tweak via its vast settings menus.
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