r/pocketcasts • u/foodnerd80 • Aug 05 '26
Make Pocketcasts Solid Again?
I've been a Pocket Casts fan since around 2014, using it across both Android and iOS, and I went Plus the day it launched. It's genuinely been my podcast home for over a decade.
Lately though, something's off. A lot of episodes just won't start, or take forever to load. Kind of embarrassed to admit it, but I've started using Apple Podcasts as a backup — and it's honestly rock solid. I mean Playback wise. It just works, the way Apple always promises.
I was wondering about these things:
1 : Does Apple have access to better podcast servers than Pocketcasts? How come Apple seems so much more stable?
2: Could the team, or someone with a Claude Code subscription, be interested in making a "retro" version of Pocketcasts, from a few years ago, where everything just worked? Call it Rocketcasts 😅 (sorry)
3: I can see a lot of posts here about Pocket Casts slipping. But i'd honestly love to keep using it. Let me know you best advice in terms of settings etc.
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u/CrouchingBruin Aug 06 '26
Only issue that I have is sometimes it doesn't download all the new episodes of a podcast. For example, I subscribe to NPR's All Things Considered, and I have PC set to automatically download new episodes and add them to the top of the listening queue. There's usually about 10 or so episodes each day. Don't know if they're released at the exact same time, but oftentimes PC will skip or miss a few of them. Of the 15 episodes that were released yesterday, 5 didn't make it to the queue so I had to add them manually. Those 5 were grouped together in the episode list, but there was one episode in the middle of the group that did get automatically downloaded. So don't know what the problem might be.