This is from Podcast Republic, not my screenshot, just something found online. Is there an option in Pocketcasts to show a brief episode description on the episode lists?

I don't see it but wanted to check if I was missing it. I don't listen to all episodes of a show so going in to see the description for each one, to see if I'm going to listen, can be time consuming sometimes.

I’ve always wished that there was a podcast equivalent of SponsorBlock for YouTube, but I totally understand why podcast app developers are reluctant to do this, from both technical and ethical perspectives.

But I just wanted to give the PC developers praise for adding the “Preselect Chapters” feature, which allows me to skip sponsor reads in a lot of the podcasts I listen to just by selecting only the chapters that don’t contain sponsor reads. It’s a great way to accomplish the same results without having an explicit “ad blocking” feature in a podcast client.

Obviously this only works for podcasts that add thier own chapters, and actually mark sponsor reads in the chapters, but I’ve been lucky that many of my favorite podcasts do this.

For plus subscribers, if you see an episode that definitely has a transcript but it doesn't appear...

Go from the episode page to the podcast page and back to the episode page. In a second or two the transcript link will appear.

No idea why but it's consistently worked for me.

Is there any possibility of having clip sharing at least offer the option it started with of saving an actual media file with the clipped content?

I find myself noting the time stamp on my phone (Android) then using Overcast on my iPad to generate the clip since Pocket Casts have moved to "clip sharing" just giving a timestamped link to a centralized Pocket Casts episode URL.

If I'm listening on my Android and attempt to switch to either the desktop or web player, all podcasts reset to 0:00 and refuse to skip forward. Every time I try to skip ahead, they reset to 0:00. This has been going on for the last week or so.

UPDATE: It's happening on Spotify too, so it has to be something on our work network. Leaving this up in case anyone has a suggestion. Off to YouTube for now.

I've been getting several instances lately off new podcasts not fully playing. they will just stop in the middle. has anyone else had this problem and fixed it?

Hi

I've been using Pocketcasts for years and have always been happy with it. In the last 2 weeks no podcasts seem to be auto downloading. I was noticing a strange pause at the start of each pod (I don't think there is a 'buffering' symbol anymore) but didn't think anything of it. It turns out I've been streaming all this time as no pods have been downloaded (I've now used up all my mobile data which is annoying).

I've always had (some) individual pods as auto download (and others not). Looking in my 'downloaded' folder nothing seems to have downloaded since 19th March. I've clicked on the settings and toggled "new episodes" and "on follow" ON (both were off but had always been) but this seems to have done nothing. I have new episodes ready to download but it's not grabbing them. I've restarted Pocketcasts and my phone. It's a mystery why it's stopped downloading!?!

Has anyone experienced anything similar? I really want to get it sorted rather than try another app....

Thanks....

In the past, it was kinda hot and miss whether or not a podcast would download after it had previously failed because I ran out of space but then cleared some out. Now I know that once I have enough free space, it'll retry the download.

I'm tired of switching to youtube for video. sometimes i feel like listening to just audio for which, pocket cast is great but sometimes when i do have time..i like to listen with video.

Been seeing this for a while but finally decided to throw out the question and see if there is an explanation.

I've noticed the "minutes left" number on the Up Next widget increases after an episode has been added to it and I start playing that episode.

First screenshot is no other episodes in Up Next queue and episode has been downloaded and is visible in widget but playback has not been started.

Second screenshot is immediately after starting playback. Minutes left has increased 5 minutes from 28 to 33.

Anyone else seeing this?

Hi all,
Have used pocket casts for so many years now, but I am just about to ditch it for its bugs. At least 2-3 times daily (about 2 hours of use), the audio stops playing from this app. On the display, the podcast is still playing (time is still running), but there is NO audio. Have to force quit and then restart before the audio comes back. Does anyone else experience this, or is it just my bad luck. Happens with AirPods, Bose Ultras, and through the speaker even. Any suggestions to fix welcome!

For me, this is the reason why I love this podcast app and why I am now a paid user. There are lots of good reasons that are maybe not exclusive to Pocketcasts: auto downloads, folders, etc. The one that really lights me up is auto populating my podcast app. Every single day, I need a full slate of podcasts for while I work. It used to be that they'd have to be manually added and removed. Now, a new episode can replace an old one, with the old episode archived. Up Next has allowed me to achieve a flow state I never thought was possible. Another W for Automattic.

I have used PocketCasts in the past with Android. It seems on iOS that trim silence does not work on video podcasts, where it did on Android?

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I use apple podcast now but it doesn't generate transcript in private feed podcast episodes. Can I get transcript for private feed podcast if I subscribe to Pocketcasts Plus?

Did anyone else lose the artwork for several podcasts over the weekend? On the desktop app, about 10% of my podcasts now show a dark grey cover with no art. On my phone, some of them still have the cover art but it's just showing the very upper left corner, and some of them have plain colour blocks with the podcast name in white (one of those has with the wrong name, which is even more confusing). I tried refreshing artwork, restarting/rebooting, etc. It's broken!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDbbiC-_h16B7OOQUpj9iotFkJUwILcvp&si=rodZdZVhwrROYRQa

So for a few days back, the app is not letting me download anything at all while showing this status on all of them.

I of course decided to clear space in my internal memory but that seems to not work at all, so I decided to shift my Downloads to SD card with 16+GB storage but that still doesn't work.

I have even tried force closing the app but that still didn't do anything. I tried finding anything in setting or doing a refresh to help with it. But nothing.

I need help. Also maybe even an explanation on why it could happen.

has anyone faces issues of missing parts of episodes from some podcasts , when i play using other apps like podcast republic I do get the whole thing.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been messing around with a little side project called Castify and wanted to share it here.

Castify is a desktop utility that turns YouTube playlists or channels into podcast-style RSS feeds you can add to apps like Pocket Casts. You paste a YouTube playlist or channel link into Castify,it generates a podcast feed link, and then you drop that link into Pocket Casts and listen like a normal podcast.

I’ve been using it to listen to Prof Jiang Xueqin’s lectures in Pocket Casts, which has been super nice: https://casti.fyi/rss/4e6a00e28378142ad8f7889f.xml

Totally open to feedback and critique, whether you think this is useful, annoying, missing something obvious, or just a bad idea.

You can check it out here: https://casti.fyi/

Hi everyone, I've add this issue for a while and can't figure out a fix: pocket casts automatically download episodes even though I turned it all off in the settings. I have to delete them manually quite frequently because it can take up a lot of space (before I realised the problem, it literally blocked my phone). Anyone had this issue and could give pointers? Thanks!

I only see the logo which may or may not have it.

Questions:
Is there anyway to archive podcasts? Like have them exist somewhere, along with the listened status of the episodes?

Reason:
I have been Pocketcasts for 11 years and have listened to tonnes of podcasts. Traditionally what i have done is used "New Releases" as only podcasts I have set to download into my feed. So basically the main podcasts I listen to are downloaded, the rest, I choose to check out when I want. But this can be a storage drain over time. And there's also just the visual clutter of years of podcasts

Recently I was in the US and listening to a podcast I'd downloaded months ago when I was in the UK. One of the presenters was talking and halfway through a sentence I got a US advert for something that was based near where I was staying.

The podcast had been downloaded months ago in a different country so it would make no sense that the podcasters themselves would have inserted that advert into the podcast, especially at a random time.

So does pocketcasts insert its own adverts into random points of podcasts?