Re:Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)
by smegger001 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @07:11PM
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lets not forget the awful UI for podcasts on audible. Only showing the last three episodes in the app having to go through multiple screens just to download back episodes, having to manually start the next episode instead of playing them automatically. having to subscribe to each season of the same podcast separately so if you don't already know they next is out you don't get it, the whole experience is painful enough I have pretty much given up on listening to any amazon produced podcast as it s just to much of a pain in the ass to listen to them.
I understand everyone’s doing it and you as a company feel entitled to a slice of whatever podcast pie.
What I don’t understand is how that can take focus when your audio player has been getting steadily worse - corrupted offline download, buggy buffering, choppy audio after jumping back 30s.
If your bread and butter - what I’m actually paying for - doesn’t work I’ll gladly save a few bucks and go to the public library.