(I’ve purchased the Android and iOS versions.) It’s highly recommended. But I recommend doing so, as I’ve never found a podcast app that works this good, and this consistently across platforms. It’s not free, and you actually have to purchase each client independently. Pocket Casts is available on Android, iOS, and the web. As you play episodes, Pocket Casts will automatically sync your playback position to the cloud and any other device that you’re logged into Pocket Casts on. Shift Jelly says it will be adding more features to this Sonos integration over time. Meaning, you can start a podcast on your phone, continue it on your Sonos, and then pick it up again later at the correct place on your phone again. (It would be nice if you could just “cast” to Sonos from the Pocket Casts app and other apps.) So instead of the normal podcast-based UI, you get New Releases, In Progress and Starred links, each of which provides a list of episodes across multiple podcasts.īecause Pocket Casts maintains a cloud-based library, however, you do at least get seamless playback. Then, open the Sonos app and navigate to Add Music Services in the menu and then to Pocket Casts.Īs is usually the case, the look and feel of Pocket Casts is completely different on Sonos. To do so, first install Pocket Casts on your phone and sign-in to your account. Pocket Casts on Sonos is currently in beta, but any Sonos user can access it.

“Judging by the amount of tweets and emails we’ve had over the years this is one of your most requested features and we’re excited to finally share it with you.” Add an episode to a list and go, nothing to it.“We’re excited to announce that Pocket Casts support for Sonos has gone into Beta,” a new post to the Shift Jelly blog reads. Kind of a bummer for the odd times I want to jog outside with my watch only.īut yeah, that chapter pre-selection and their queuing system is really working for me lately. Unlike other podcatcher apps where the app itself reads the rss feed and pulls the episodes, Pocket Casts hosts your account on their servers and they talk to the podcast and relay it to your installed app. It has to do with how they handle subscriptions. On their Twitter acct (which seems to be virtually inactive lately), they did mention at one point that the watch app is broken and the guy who wrote that part of the app is gone so, no fixes anytime soon. However the reason why I switched from Pocket Casts was the way they handle artwork. There’s a few reasons I don’t use Castro full time and keep going between it and Pocket Casts. It sounds the best of the three but I really don’t like that the UI on the player screen is only half the screen, and yeah - it fits my flow the worst of the 3 apps. The design is not my thing, I don’t use playlists, and the couple of times I tried it I can’t get it to keep playing after a show ends. Overcast - I never really jived with this app.

It saves me having to take my phone out of my pocket every 10 mins to skip ahead. This can be used to skip ads, and any chapters that I may not be interested in. If there is a podcast with chapters (ATP, MPU) I can determine which chapters I want to listen to. The KILLER FEATURE though - chapter pre-selection. My main app for podcastsĬastro - also has enhance voices, trim silence and has features similar to Pocket Casts. Pocket Casts - Available on many platforms, trim silence (I use MAX), voice boost (I rarely use), great Apple Watch app, iPad app, best web app of the big 3. Without getting into a 12 page opus on my podcast app experiences, I’ll try to sum things up quickly. I’m primarily a Pocket Casts guy though, so they won my vote. I know I mentioned that I’m using Castro in another thread, and that’s true - right now.

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