![]() This issue also isn’t present when using the webapp in Firefox and Chrome on MacOS, but it shows up in Safari. At even higher speeds these issues get more and more noticeable. Safari degrades the audio quality considerably when playing it back at a faster rate.Īlready at 10 % faster playback, the smallest increment that can be configured in Pocket Casts, the audio starts suffering from distortions and compression artifacts (cracking, popping). A popular feature found in almost every podcast app is the ability to slightly increase the playback speed. The MacOS version of the Pocket Casts’ app suffers from being built on Apple technologies. However, if Pocket Casts had chosen to go down the Electron route it would be a small job to extend the webapp’s functionality and reimplement the download and storage management customers are familiar with from Pocket Casts for mobile. You’re restricted to only stream podcast episodes over the web and can’t work the app offline. Pocket Casts apps for MacOS and Windows have inherited this limitation. Pocket Casts for web can’t support this feature as the web platform doesn’t give websites enough storage capacity to download numerous large files to cache. Podcast apps for mobile devices will often download episodes when your device is on Wi-Fi and plugged in to a charger to save on data cost and don’t impact your device’s battery life. Most podcast apps, including Pocket Casts for Android and iOS, will periodically download new podcast episodes and store them on your device so they’re ready when you’ve got time to listen to them. You could also get episode searching for free by caching episodes on disk, something I’ll go into in more details next. This could be achieved on both operating systems by creating bookmark files containing the relevant metadata on the local device and deep linking into the relevant screens in the app. Searching on your device should bring up your favorite podcast shows and episodes. Disappointingly, the apps don’t integrate with Spotlight search on MacOS or with Windows Search or Windows Timeline. You’re not getting much in terms of desktop integration.
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