Sure, it’s not as fully featured as an actual desktop podcast manager but as someone who uses a barrage of different devices, I’ll take the convenience of cloud-synced listening over podcast power features any day. This is really where Pocket Casts comes into its own for me. Next to each episode, there’s also a little circle to also denote whether you’ve started listening before or not. If it’s a podcast you’ve started before, it’ll pick up where you left off thanks to Pocket Casts’ syncing feature. When watching a video, there are options for watching in full screen.Ĭlicking the name of an individual episode will bring up details about it in the sidebar, and if you’re willing to install the Sway.fm Chrome plugin, you can use your keyboard to control media playback. There are also volume and playback speed controls. Or, of course, you can just jump directly to wherever you want in the episode. Once listening, the player controls open at the bottom of the screen and you can skip forwards 30 seconds at a time, or skip backwards 10 seconds. This means that if you want to listen, you’ll need a working internet connection. Individual title view shows listened podcasts as greyed out, and unlike its mobile counterparts, there’s no option to download the podcasts directly to your hard drive via the Web player. Next to that, there’s a settings icon, which allows you to upgrade from the free trial (14 days) for $9 (plus tax, where applicable – for example, the total is $10.80 including VAT in the UK), check out the FAQs or log out. You’ll need to click the little + icon to reveal it, though. This allows you to search for specific titles primarily, however as many podcasts include their topic in the title, you can effectively use it to search (albeit crudely) by genre too. There’s also a search box here for finding your favorite shows if you have a large collection.įor a more general search for new content, there’s another box in the top bar of the page. Just like on mobile, the Web client can handle video as well as audio podcasts.īeneath these categories are your subscribed items, which can be arranged in a grid view or in a list. Once you’re signed in, you’ll see a list of your existing subscriptions (if you’re a user, again) or you’ll be launched into the Discover tab, so you can start finding new shows to subscribe to it shows Top Charts as well as Trending items.
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