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I'm going to ask a legitimate question and I promise I'm not trolling but this seems insane to me and I have to ask.
Why in the fuck would anybody use a special app just for podcasts?
I just go to the website, download the show, throw it on my phone and I'm good to go. It takes very little time I don't have anyone selling my listening data.
I'd genuinely like to know what the benefit is.
I just subscribe to a bunch of podcasts and it automatically downloads them for me. It handles keeping track of what I've listened to and can queue up a variety of them for easy listening like a customized radio station.
Here's what mine looks like:
Holy hell does your phone even fit in your pocket?
I spy with my little eyes a donut media podcast π
Also: tracks played progress across devices
I could see how that would be handy if I listened to them on more than one device.
Sucks that AAA is done.
They just made a new podcast called Android Faithful that has Ron and Huyen. It feels like AAA reborn.
Android Faithful
Love the indicator - what a great show that is. Our feeds look pretty similar lol
I just grab them and then delete them when I'm done. I still don't understand the need to involve a corporation and their analytics in my listening activities. There's not much time lost or regained either way so I don't really see the benefit?
That's fine. Some of us like to have them automatically downloaded and deleted for us since we listen to so many. I personally wouldn't have the time to visit each to download or keep track of new releases!
It is just easier, and having a simple ui of different podcasts and their episodes along with their progress is a nice QOL -feature. You can probably get the sam, result with a media-player and some tinkering, but is not as easy.
Granted, I see no reason to pay for a podcast app (other to support creators), as free open-source options such as AntennaPod exist.
It's worth nothing Pocket Casts app itself is open-source and free to use. The subscription gets you access to some extra functionality. I personally was fine with paying for the app back in the day but am not interested in subscriptions.
so you don't have to go to the website and download each episode you want to listen to...
I don't understand how going to a website once a week for under 10 seconds is a detriment?
If you listen to more than one podcast, either
Some podcasts I like to listen to the day they come out, or perhaps the next day if I don't get to it, such as news podcasts.
Also, if you listen to even more than a few podcasts, you aren't going to "a website" once a week, you're going to a dozen websites once a week.
That's three steps, per podcast per episode. Not everyone has their phone set up where it's zero-effort to copy files to the phone from their computer, so that may be a multi-step process itself.
Also, podcast apps offer some other features that to do manually either is more work, or more mental overhead:
Of course, a podcast app is not required to listen to podcasts by any means. But if you listen to a lot of podcasts and value time your time, there is undeniable benefit offered by podcast apps.
Also, there are plenty of FOSS and tracker-free podcast apps, so it's not a situation where you must sacrifice privacy for convenience.
For a legitimate question you sure do keep countering answers with "I don't do it so why do you?"
As for why people use a dedicated app? Convenience. All my podcast are in one place, they get updated automatically, and if I want it they get downloaded to storage automatically too so I can listen to them offline.
If someone tells me about a new podcast I might like, I can search for it and be listening to it within seconds, rather than having to download it from a website. Plus if I'm using Google Podcasts, playback is synced across devices so I can pick up on my phone where I left off on my computer.
Besides there's a ton of open source podcast apps and most don't have ads or tracking.
Because if I don't understand something, I would like an understanding of what the reasoning behind it is. We get smarter by asking people about the world. I find a lot of issues with people emerge because they don't think about the reasoning behind any of what they are doing and simply fall into a rut of convenience instead of finding a better way to do things.
But of course on the internet, people get pretty angry when questioning a behavior they just adopted and never bothered to think about.