Apple Podcasts does not have a silence-trimming feature, which is reason enough to not use it.
It would be nice if you could have a single podcast RSS backend with multiple client apps, like you can with text RSS.
It would be nice if you could have a single podcast RSS backend with multiple client apps, like you can with text RSS.
That said with RSS I just use NetNewsWire which does local crawling of my feeds, and it updates its state via iCloud. But I'd definitely want a web interface if I needed one to access my feeds on a work computer or something.