If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter

Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by mixmastamyk on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:13PM (#29233551)

Don't get me started on the new iOS podcast app. I used to know how to use it. Now I need to click five times at random to get anywhere, and still don't understand where I am. All the views look similar, but different. I just want to hear the oldest first and see if episodes are downloaded, that's it. Cue… "you had one job!"

Yes, been about six months.

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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by josephg on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:47PM (#29234572)

Try Overcast. It’s one of the best pieces of software on my iPhone. Simple, well thought through and reliable. And the speed controls are the best I’ve seen in any program.

It’s the sort of software apple makes when they’re at their best. Much better than the built in podcast app.

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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by EricE on Friday November 19, 2021 @11:55AM (#29279300)

The audio controls in Overcast are what made it must-have software for me. I had a few podcasts with audio so bad they were barely listenable that the voice boost function in Overcast was able to make them actually listenable. That and the shorten silence feature combined with the excellent audio processing if you listen at higher speed have allowed me to really optimize my podcast consumption. Highly recommended!

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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by ghaff on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:36PM (#29235542)

I like Overcast. Though neither it nor anything else really comes close to letting me play podcasts with some degree of reasonable selection when I'm driving. Maybe too difficult a problem and reflecting that voice assistants are pretty limited.

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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by oasisbob on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:34PM (#29234434)

I'm still trying to figure out how to tell Podcasts not to play episodes I've heard before.

Play #27 of Show, then #26, and after playing #26, it will automatically choose to go on with #27 again.

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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by alwillis on Monday November 15, 2021 @11:16PM (#29236743)

I haven’t used it in a while but when I did, it was pretty bad.

One annoying bug: if you switch to a different podcast sometimes, even when the new podcast starts playing, it continues to show the cover art of the previous podcast for a while. Super annoying.

What’s even more frustrating is how buggy streaming music to a HomePod mini is.

Even though I’m the only person in my household using it, I frequently get errors that I can’t play something because someone else is playing something, which turns out to be something I played a while ago.

Things seemed better before the latest HomePod software upgrade…

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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by datavirtue on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:25PM (#29234337)

Hmmm....I was just cursing out Amazon Music for the same podcast flaws. These people.

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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by Slartie on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:28PM (#29234375)

If there only were any other podcast apps out there, maintained by independent, non-apple developers...

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Re:If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big th... by mixmastamyk on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:00PM (#29243950)

If only there were a built-in podcast app that wasn't a mess, like there used to be for the previous ten years. That wasn't broken on purpose, and folks from Stockholm didn't feel a need to defend.

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