Al Jazeera podcasts downloaded automatically. I never subscribed to Al Jazeera news podcasts, but they were in my downloads with the items I did choose. Consequently, I uninstalled the app. Another problem I had with the app was that I would download programs at home, then go for a walk to listen to them. The app would still use mobile data. A one-hour program would eat up 400M of mobile data, for a program that I downloaded before I left. The app I use now doesn't eat up data like that.
A Google user
This app has completely ceased to function. It went from being a great little app to a slow loading advertisement monster. I literally can't even get a podcast to start, let alone play an entire episode. The podcasts now stall, take 5 minutes to start at all, and have a loud obnoxious video that pops up (after taking ages to load in the first place) the second you hit the play button. Completely unusable.
A Google user
I opened the app on my device. I already made an account with this app. Log out. Then opened again. It seems like the problems I am having are most of podcasts I subscribed are gone and only the recent ones I just subscribe is there. Refreshing the app. Log out and losing more of my subscribed podcasts. I'm glad that the app works and it continues even my phone is off. But losing the podcasts I really like is disappointing. The Podcast Player is free. There is a lot of trending ones here.
Ann Martin
What happened? Up until about a week ago this app was fantastic. I loved it and listen to podcasts every day! However, for a few days the podcast came in like they were speeding and now they are running very slow, like it takes twice the time. Are the programers aware of this issue? Thank you for your Speedy response! I reset the speed as you suggested in the email and it worked perfectly. I realize now that it was probably my fault for bumping the speed indicator by accident. Thanks again!
Caitlin Blazejak
Love the podcasts, but they stop abruptly. In the middle of a show, for no particular reason, the podcast will just stop. It doesn't just pause itself; in order to pick up where I left off I have to search for it again, find that specific episode again, and try to find where it cut out. This is a real pain when since I listen a lot while I'm driving, in which case I can't look for it at the time. This has happened the entire time I've been using the app but it's become much more often lately.
M. Arronax #3
This thing has video ads. On a podcast player. I download my podcasts on wifi, to listen on long drives so I don't have to use my data. Only for this thing to play a video ad, defeating the point of downloading the podcasts. Because now my data is used for the ad. Also the ads are becoming more annoying. Don't download. There are better podcast players out there.
Alfredo Pizzirani
Why does the subscribed podcast list come prepacked with several episodes of podcasts I don't care about? Bad start. I had to delete them one by one. After that, the app is not bad; much better than YouTube Music as a podcast player, actually. Two suggestions: make it easier to slow down speed of play (without having to go to max speed first - a slider would be nice); and allow me to have my queue as a start page in the app.
Lauren Rudick
So, as with sone other reviews, it has suddenly begun having issues. I can not seem to turn it off without force stopping it. I uninstalled and reinstalled and same issue. And, no I will not send you a screen shot or anything else. You have apparently been working on these same glitches for months and haven't been able to fix it, so my additional information will not help you. Moving on.
Kat Spaw
Thought this was a cool app, but the ads are too intrusive. I'm fine with some ads, but not the constantly changing ads while a podcast is playing. When I look at my screen, I want to see what podcast is being played, not a constant stream of ads. Plus, hard to believe it doesn't contribute to battery drain. I miss Google Podcasts. :( I'll be looking for an alternative.
A Google user
It works well for podcasts that you are subscribed to. But it's difficult to "try out" a new podcast. You are unable to listen to a podcast that you aren't subcribed to. So you have to subscribe to it, in order to download episodes. Kinda a bother. But only if you like to try out new podcasts all the time. I may subscribe to 1 or 2 new podcasts a month, so it's not so big of a deal.
