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The podcast app is the same shoddy-ness. Re-arranging things in the queue is such a PIA.

Apple Music, at least when I last used it, could not handle copying podcasts to my old iPod Video - this is now handled in Finder, as best as I can tell. It will copy the tracks, but it doesn't properly flag them as podcasts so if I switch to another track and then go back to the podcast it does not remember my location.

Never had that problem with iTunes.

If you set your podcasts as AudioBooks and copy them in THAT area, it remembers where you were, at least. But you have to play them through Books.

I did find that workaround and then I just scrapped that Mac (because it was a Mac Mini that lost OS support) and went back to using gtkpod on Linux.

podcast app is the worst, I can never find what I'm looking for

have you tried their "books"? you cannot search by almost anything! Extra-strangely, selecting book language is macos-only feature! Does anyone even maintain it?

> I can never find what I'm looking for

Overcast might be the app for you. No affiliation, I just like it.

Unfortunately, Overcast's update towards the tail of last year ruined it for me and many others. It no longer functions reliably in my experience.

Overcast is definitely the least worst of the iOS podcast apps but it does have its own set of UI/UX annoyances.

My main issue with podcast alternatives is that onbe feature I use is walk into a room and ask Siri to play a podcast. That works with Apple but not anything else. What is the latest podcast has to sync across devices.

However any maintainance or search for podcasts is crap with Apple and better elsewhere.

I've used Downcast forever. No complaints. No idea how it compares to Overcast.

Another vote for Overcast.

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