This is proving to be somewhat of a struggle, all I have tried have major annoying bugs.
Podcast Picker - This worked well until it came to actually playing the podcasts, it would often skip to the next podcasts for no apparent reason, but whats worse is the fact it doesn't save your position with podcasts, so it decides to skip to the next podcasts, you go back to the previous only to discover it starts right from the very start again, and who's to say if you start playing the podcast it wont skip to the next again at some stage?
Podcast Lounge - Rated as one of the best of WP, It imported my podcasts fine, I set it to sync and download my latest podcasts and went to bed. Got up in the morning and sure it had downloaded my podcasts but deleted all the playlists, Hit + to add a playlist "An unexpected error has occurred" meaning to listen to your podcasts you have to go into your faves etc and select making the whole process slow and clunky.
Pocket Casts - Used this for years on iOS and Android, this is the king of podcast apps, so obviously it would just as good on WP WRONG.
In the app I found it rather sluggish like it was using a hell of a lot of RAM, I signed in and synced it pulled in my podcasts list, then it came to auto download the latest episodes, the list set trying to download, it set 10 mins or more then gave FAILED, after much tinkering the only way I could get it to download anything was to do everything manually downloading 1 podcast at a time. Once downloaded I discovered you get a play button, no other controls, no ability to scroll forward or back etc, and once listened to the podcast remains in the downloaded list, no auto delete. Rubbish compared to ther iOS & Android counterpart.
Surely it couldn't be this hard to get a decent podcast app on WP?
Podcast Picker - This worked well until it came to actually playing the podcasts, it would often skip to the next podcasts for no apparent reason, but whats worse is the fact it doesn't save your position with podcasts, so it decides to skip to the next podcasts, you go back to the previous only to discover it starts right from the very start again, and who's to say if you start playing the podcast it wont skip to the next again at some stage?
Podcast Lounge - Rated as one of the best of WP, It imported my podcasts fine, I set it to sync and download my latest podcasts and went to bed. Got up in the morning and sure it had downloaded my podcasts but deleted all the playlists, Hit + to add a playlist "An unexpected error has occurred" meaning to listen to your podcasts you have to go into your faves etc and select making the whole process slow and clunky.
Pocket Casts - Used this for years on iOS and Android, this is the king of podcast apps, so obviously it would just as good on WP WRONG.
In the app I found it rather sluggish like it was using a hell of a lot of RAM, I signed in and synced it pulled in my podcasts list, then it came to auto download the latest episodes, the list set trying to download, it set 10 mins or more then gave FAILED, after much tinkering the only way I could get it to download anything was to do everything manually downloading 1 podcast at a time. Once downloaded I discovered you get a play button, no other controls, no ability to scroll forward or back etc, and once listened to the podcast remains in the downloaded list, no auto delete. Rubbish compared to ther iOS & Android counterpart.
Surely it couldn't be this hard to get a decent podcast app on WP?
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