Never thought I'd pine for the skeuomorphic reel-to-reel version of the Podcasts app.
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Apple Investigating 'Problem' With Podcasts App That Began April 29 [Now Resolved]
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I think a lot of the pain points come from the fact that they substantially changed library management in the new Podcasts, and many of us find it unintuitive.
First off, "recent episodes" is just a mediocre UI. I often want to see all of my outstanding episodes. You can mostly do this by selecting 1 month in the settings, but it's not sticky. It's just weird.
Second, the "saved" vs "in library" logic seems, at least at first glance, a lot more complicated than the old one. In the old one, you could mark a podcast as played, or delete it from your library. Now, you can either save it or mark it played, but that's a hugely different flow.
To be honest, the old version was not totally intuitive, but enough of us wrapped our head around it; the new one is still really confusing to me.
As for Overcast: I think it is very straightforward, but honestly, I think Pocket Casts library management is even better. It's super intuitive and powerful, to me. You can archive or mark played (and that distinction is kept), but it is way less confusing than Apple Podcasts.
Stop fiddling Apple! The Podcast App wasn't great to begin with, but it certainly worked better than it does now. I don't know what they've done, but I'm sure it will take them 2 years to get it back to being barely useable.
This app just got worse. I actually liked the previous version. This version I can't tell what's new, what's old, how to browse my shows, how to see what's downloaded. It's just a hot mess.
I’m beginning to think Apple’s software division has become your average politician.
Promise something. Under deliver. Screw it up more as time goes on. After X number of months/years announce that you can fix the problem with a new from the ground up solution. Rinse and repeat.
Promise something. Under deliver. Screw it up more as time goes on. After X number of months/years announce that you can fix the problem with a new from the ground up solution. Rinse and repeat.
I wonder if this is related to DNS filtering. I started having an outage last week and tracked it back to my filtering using Steven Black’s DNS filtering list.
See: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/1567
Basically Chartable was blocked and prevented playing many podcasts.
See: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/1567
Basically Chartable was blocked and prevented playing many podcasts.
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It was removed already so maybe not related but pointing it out.
The app is an absolute disaster now. If I save an episode of a podcast that I’m not subscribed to, shouldn’t that ep show up in Listen Now? And new episodes of podcasts that I am subscribed to take forever to show up. Such a mess.
"We saved so many liiiiives with hiring new teams across the wooorrrlds. I even took it as a pet project to help manage-"
"Mr Cook, the team in {redacted} couldn't deliver the podcast app on time. They say the management didn't log everything into Jira"
"Oh dear that's terrible...well lets get the PM of the project into my office right away"
"Sir its your pet project....sir? Sir? Sir?"
"We are saving sooo many liiiives?"
"Actually the stress of the inept management falling on the programmers causes 2 people to go on medical leave, their prognosis doesn't look so good"
"Stock holders are saying employee benefits are too high, let me just make a tweak to life insur-"
"Sir I would probably wait on that"
"Nonsense it runs on a M1"
"Sir you can't put M1 into everything"
"We are saving sooo many liiives by "
"Actually sir I just got news that by ending jobs for local loggers, they turned to militia and possibly killed"
"Did they use renewable resources?"
"Yes sir, the chainsaws were solar powered"
"Mr Cook, the team in {redacted} couldn't deliver the podcast app on time. They say the management didn't log everything into Jira"
"Oh dear that's terrible...well lets get the PM of the project into my office right away"
"Sir its your pet project....sir? Sir? Sir?"
"We are saving sooo many liiiives?"
"Actually the stress of the inept management falling on the programmers causes 2 people to go on medical leave, their prognosis doesn't look so good"
"Stock holders are saying employee benefits are too high, let me just make a tweak to life insur-"
"Sir I would probably wait on that"
"Nonsense it runs on a M1"
"Sir you can't put M1 into everything"
"We are saving sooo many liiives by "
"Actually sir I just got news that by ending jobs for local loggers, they turned to militia and possibly killed"
"Did they use renewable resources?"
"Yes sir, the chainsaws were solar powered"
I got really frustrated with the podcast app long time ago. I paid and moved to Pocket Cast, and never looked back.
Wait, that would suggest it’s not at all bad, that it’s not garbage—little like my reply.
The Podcast app has been trash for a long time and it's only got worse since .5 dropped. What the **** is Federighi getting paid for? Ever since he took over iOS and MacOS X both software platforms have gotten worse with each subsequent release.
Were the beta versions this bad?
I'm glad I didn't download the beta versions of 14.5 this time.
I'm glad I didn't download the beta versions of 14.5 this time.
My bad, I was going with "a thing that is considered worthless or meaningless" definition of garbage, hence my misunderstanding. That definition didn't clarify whether something could still be useable in its worthlessness.
They usually say "only a small percentage of users are affected". Must be a widespread issue indeed.
Agree. They seem to have spent 99% of the time designing the "Podcasts" section (it is after all what drives new subscriptions and where the money will come from) and for the rest of the app they were like "eh, whatever".
I could deal with the awful UI, as I access podcasts mostly through CarPlay, if it would just download podcasts automatically per my settings.
If Apple is still working on a car, I’m not sure if this is a good advertisement for it.
They seemingly can’t even make a rock solid podcast app. What is their car going to be like? 😱
They seemingly can’t even make a rock solid podcast app. What is their car going to be like? 😱