> Also, I've tried 4 different podcast players and they're all terrible except for Spotify's.
You’re the first person I’ve heard with anything positive to say about their podcast UI, so I’m really curious what those four are.
You’re the first person I’ve heard with anything positive to say about their podcast UI, so I’m really curious what those four are.
Apple’s podcasts app goes out of its way to avoid showing the tracklist of the current channel or the list of recently played podcasts, or to make you misclick on the little channel name which changes the current track (given that you can’t list the recently played, any misclick is a major annoyance). I think they might have hired a AUX, an “anti-user experience” engineer.
I was listening to a history podcast (British History podcast), which has been going on for years. I listen while running, so it’s managed on my phone. For a while, I would occasionally get the app trying to skip ahead, but only if it had issues downloading the next episode (again, I was out running).
I eventually just downloaded batches of 10-20 episodes and everything worked perfectly in chronological order. And more recently, it all “just worked” even while new episodes were released. My guess is that some behavior recently changed, but I can’t confirm it.
So, I think the UX goal is to try to get you some content of it has issues with the next chronological episode.
It is accessible from Listen Now at the very bottom.