I wish they’d make a podcast app with a playback feature that’s not just a single seekbar. If for some reason you need to scroll through something, having a small bar represent an hour or two doesn’t give much granularity. I’ve been using audiopo, where your entire screen becomes the playback bar, but it’s not really a podcast app so it doesn’t have a good way to organize your files.
We don’t really have a good UI solution to that anywhere, though.
The closest I’ve seen is with longform video apps, where scrubbing along the progress bar pops up a little video preview, but it’s not consistently available, it’s a half-baked idea, and if I had a dollar for every time the preview didn’t match up to what you actually got when you hit play, I’d probably have enough to hire someone to fix it.
In podcasts, I think chapters is the best idea going, but it’s not well-implemented either.
I think scrubbing along the progress bar is just a bad visual metaphor. I don’t know what’s better, but I just don’t think it’s great.
Pocket Casts is my favorite, but AP is a great option that I used for quite a while.
I second Pocket Casts, but I was grandfathered in, so I’m not getting the new user experience, though I only take advantage of the desktop app.
Mm, fair point. I was also grandfathered in. But if I recall correctly, the free stuff is still pretty great.
I wish they’d make a podcast app with a playback feature that’s not just a single seekbar. If for some reason you need to scroll through something, having a small bar represent an hour or two doesn’t give much granularity. I’ve been using audiopo, where your entire screen becomes the playback bar, but it’s not really a podcast app so it doesn’t have a good way to organize your files.
We don’t really have a good UI solution to that anywhere, though.
The closest I’ve seen is with longform video apps, where scrubbing along the progress bar pops up a little video preview, but it’s not consistently available, it’s a half-baked idea, and if I had a dollar for every time the preview didn’t match up to what you actually got when you hit play, I’d probably have enough to hire someone to fix it.
In podcasts, I think chapters is the best idea going, but it’s not well-implemented either.
I think scrubbing along the progress bar is just a bad visual metaphor. I don’t know what’s better, but I just don’t think it’s great.
Oh wow. I’ve never heard of Pocket Casts.
Of their top 100 podcasts - Meidas Touch is not even listen. Thank you for this.
I’m not entirely sure that counts. Last I heard, their “top x” lists were just aggregates of other storefronts’ “top x” lists.