Do a lot of people share this pain? It sounds like a very niche problem to me (as a macOS dev).
But if those bookmarks/notes is a problem to a lot of people, then it might just be worth looking into.
But if those bookmarks/notes is a problem to a lot of people, then it might just be worth looking into.
Actually I have extensive time stamped notes for hundreds of podcast episodes including their ads starting and ending, but personally I'm against ad blocking. I've been in the process of removing those parts before publishing my bookmarks/notes.
It would certainly be useful to have notes for a whole range of other benefits e.g. making it much easier to search an old episode for a specific topic.
And yeah the other use cases help for sure!
Being half way through on iOS, then being able to continue listening exactly at the same point on MacOS - yes. That's something iTunes and the iPod supported since day zero, and nobody else has yet properly replicated. And it's really useful if you listen to podcasts longer than about five minutes long.