• macallik@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I was a power user back in the day, but once I started using PocketCasts, that’s all she wrote. RIP tho

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    1 year ago

    Gotta love it when big companies buy off a popular smaller one only to gut it. I didnt use stitcher but it feels like a waste.

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      1 year ago

      May I ask why? I never used Stitcher but a few podcasts I listen to had premium on it. And why do you dislike IHR? Several podcasts I listen to are IHR productions. :(

      • Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social
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        For a long time Stitcher was taking public podcast feeds, adding their own advertising, and re-encoding the podcasts which reduced the audio quality and made it harder for podcasters to tell how many downloads they were getting. For iHeart it’s honestly mostly ideological for me. iHeart is what Clear Channel rebranded to and they control more of American terrestrial radio than any other company. Having listened to podcasts since 2005 I liked that they were a lot smaller scale, that they were more community oriented and diy. Yes there were networks like Maximum Fun and TWiT, but none of them were on the scale that iHeart is. There is some good stuff on their network, but like a lot of the corporations that only started getting into podcasts after Serial they have a much different view of what podcasts are and should be than I do.

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          1 year ago

          That’s really scummy of Stitcher. Wow.

          And I totally get the anti IHR monopoly thing!

          Thank you for explaining your feelings. :)

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    Oh, that’s too bad. I’ve been using Stitcher for years and was pretty happy with it.

    What other podcast apps for Android are people using that they would recommend?

    I’ve tried using Spotify previously for podcasts, but I find it frustrating since the app is primarily designed for music. It works well for music, but the podcasts experience is awkwardly grafted on and does not work well for me.

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      I’ve always been fond of Podcast Addict - though I wish there were other features like keeping track of how many episodes of Stuff You Should know I’ve listened to for when I switch phones / devices.