I listen to them on Spotify so they're at least not bound to that platform - hopefully not financially either. I will miss the improvised jingles though, they were great!
I honestly just use Google podcasts. Mostly because it syncs with the website easily. So I can listen on my phone and then at work on Firefox and not have to worry
May I ask why? I never used Stitcher but a few podcasts I listen to had premium on it. And why do you dislike IHR? Several podcasts I listen to are IHR productions. :(
For a long time Stitcher was taking public podcast feeds, adding their own advertising, and re-encoding the podcasts which reduced the audio quality and made it harder for podcasters to tell how many downloads they were getting. For iHeart it's honestly mostly ideological for me. iHeart is what Clear Channel rebranded to and they control more of American terrestrial radio than any other company. Having listened to podcasts since 2005 I liked that they were a lot smaller scale, that they were more community oriented and diy. Yes there were networks like Maximum Fun and TWiT, but none of them were on the scale that iHeart is. There is some good stuff on their network, but like a lot of the corporations that only started getting into podcasts after Serial they have a much different view of what podcasts are and should be than I do.
Oh, that's too bad. I've been using Stitcher for years and was pretty happy with it.
What other podcast apps for Android are people using that they would recommend?
I've tried using Spotify previously for podcasts, but I find it frustrating since the app is primarily designed for music. It works well for music, but the podcasts experience is awkwardly grafted on and does not work well for me.
I switched to AntennaPod as I had just started using stitcher for podcast listening. Two days on AntennaPod and i have not found anything offensive about it. Though my usage for either apps was/is quite simple
I used to be a heavy PocketCast user, but I ditched it when they switched to a subscription model and threatened to impose it on those of us who had previously paid for the app (though I think they backtracked). It was good, but I've been with Podcast Republic since then, and I'm a fan.
I've always been fond of Podcast Addict - though I wish there were other features like keeping track of how many episodes of Stuff You Should know I've listened to for when I switch phones / devices.
Sadly, I think this is the result of big content companies seeing the success of the subscription model over the advertising model – if I can get Joe Public to pay me US$5-10 a month for my stuff, I can lock them in. Converting from advertising to subscription is trivial, and there is money to be made there.
Sadly, no one can create good content just for the sake of the creation – you cannot live in modern society on your creations or reputation alone. You have to monetize them somehow, and big corporations can be a great source of that money. The alternative is to pay the creators directly, but there are only so many Patreon and other individual subscriptions I can manage at US$5+/month, on top of other bills.
For the record, I’ve never used Stitcher nor SiriusXM, so I’ve no dog in this fight.
I cancelled after months of being completely frustrated with the UI. The premium podcasts that I listened to also usually released those episodes eventually anyways.
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