How to Keep Your Podcasts Synced Between Devices. This question is part of the Ask Lifehacker advice column, where Lifehacker staff answers readers burning questions with practical tips. After all, some of the best hacks are borne from the most annoying problems. Dear Lifehacker As a user of both Android and i. OS, is there a way to have my podcast feed synced between both i. OS and Android and be able to just start listening where I left off on either device I think Stitcher might be the only option for this, but having Amazon Echo as well, it would be nice to ask my Echo to play where I left off as well. Thanks for the great work and any help you can provide Darrell. Dear Darrell Hi, Darrell As an avid podcast listener and owner of both i. OS and Android devices, I feel your pain. Starting your favorite podcast on one device and finishing it up on another shouldnt feel like rocket science. And while Ive got a Google Home, I also use my voice assistant to play the latest episodes of my favorite shows. Heres how you can, too.
Try Pocket Casts for Cross Platform Syncing. Some podcast apps allow you to listen on either i. OS or Android, as well as the web. How to Get Your Slate Plus Podcasts Bonus segments, exclusive series, no ads Subscribe to the membersonly podcast feed. Podcast Software for multiple platforms in an everchanging list. Find the program thats best for you. How to find and listen to them. Any Internetconnected computer can play podcast files, though they are best and most easily listened to on mobile devices.
Luckily, you can easily sync your podcasts between the two mobile operating systems if you use the right app. There arent many options to choose from, but youve already named one. Stitcher is indeed useful for multi platform listening, and syncs your podcasts and listening position across devices. Podcasts have become one of the best forms of entertainment around, but its tough keeping track of Read more Read. That being said, I find podcast app Pocket Casts more user friendly and reliable than Stitcher. The cross platform app can sync your podcasts between your i. OS and Android devices, supports controls via Android Wear and Apple Watch wearables, and even offers a web friendly experience after a one time 9 fee. Whats more, you can schedule your podcast updates to happen either over Wi. Fi or overnight, adjust playback speed, and build your own playlists either manually or using filters. Unfortunately, while it supports playback via Google Home, theres no support for Amazon Echo yet. Podcast Listening via Voice Assistants. Now, about your listening to podcasts through your Amazon Echo. Its pretty easy to get your Echo to start playing the latest episode of your favorite showperfect for news podcastsbut a bit more complicated to listen to a shows back catalog. Echo gets its podcast list from Tune. In, which features over 5 million podcasts in its repertoire. You can use the Alexa app to control Tune. In podcasts on your phone, but the interface is terribly organized and features obscure categories mixed in with more traditional podcast genres. Its not exactly a joy to use, but you can search for podcasts by name and pick the episode from there. Want to listen to your favorite fictional community radio podcastJust say Alexa, play Welcome to Night Vale podcast to play it on your Echo. If you need to go back you can ask it to play the previous episode, but you can only advance or rewind one episode at a time. It wont remember your place or sync with your other devices, however, so if you decide to revisit your podcast listening at a later date youll be back to where you started. Bluetooth Is Always an Option Unless its NotNow you can ask Alexa to set the mood for you. Read more Read. Of course, you might want to listen to an episode released a few weeks back. If you want more control you can use your own podcast app, in this case Stitcher or Pocket Casts. How do you get it to play on your Echo Simple pair your phone and Echo via Bluetooth. Tell your Echo to pair Bluetooth to have it connect to your smartphone. From there you can treat your Echo like a normal speaker. You wont be able to control playback with your voice, but at least your podcasts are booming through your living room. While Google Home doesnt support Bluetooth playback yet, you can also play your podcasts by asking your virtual assistant. If you ask it for the latest episode of Lifehackers The Upgrade, itll start right up. You can also play podcasts using supported podcast apps like Pocket Casts. Just say Hey Google, play Kotaku Splitscreen from Pocket Casts to enjoy some riveting conversation about Final Fantasy XII I assume youre a fan of Final Fantasy XII. Yeah, theres much to be done when it comes to syncing podcasts on every audio friendly device, but right now a combination of the right voice assistant plus the right podcast app should solve your podcast syncing woes. Want to ask Lifehacker a question Its pretty simple Email patrick. austinlifehacker. Ask Lifehacker along with your question. Broad questions are best For example, while we probably wont answer pointed ones about how to fix your Black. Berry Bolds headphone jack, we can help you find a new phone, figure out which headphones fit your lifestyle, or decide if you actually need a physical keyboard instead of a touchscreen. Podcast Software List Many Platforms Including Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Best Podcast Software List. A list by Scott Clark. Podcast Software Directory Since 2. Used by hundreds of websites providing help to podcast listeners. Add a link from your site today Software for use in grabbing your favorite news. This list is organized around platforms, so some will work with smartphone OS, tablets, MP3 Players, i. Pods, Iphone. Other players allow you to simply subscribe and listen with your web browser and are ideal for times when youre using a computer other than your own, etc. Choose Platform Windows Podcast Software. Macintosh Podcast Software. Linux Podcast Software. Smartphone Podcatcher software apps and widgets pocket devices i. Pad and Tablet Podcasting software tablets, etc. Cloud Browser Based Podcasting Software. News about this list Im also adding are software for producing and publishing podcasts, especially on tablet and browsers. If you see any broken links, or any defunct software, please do drop me a line. I want this list to remain fresh. I know this list looks a bit janky and is not mobile friendly but Ill be fixing that soon I do not provide support. This is just a directory. Please let me know if any of these programs proves problematic. Name. Type. Intro Podder. Catcher. A free client designed for. Download files into your MP3. Player or Ipod. Audials. Catcher. Find, record, download, convert and enjoy music, films, videos and Internet radios everywhere. Tunes. Catcher. Apples heavily. Works well with i. Phone, ipod shuffle, ipod nano, and regular ipod or. Iphone and ITouch users can download podcasts directly to the device via Wifi and, if the podcast is lt 1. G network. g. Podder. Catcher. Basic Features, RSS feads and Bit. Torrent podcasts. Happy Fish. Catcher. Requires Itunes. Happy. Fish is an RSS reader that can also download RSS. Hermes. Pod. Catcher. The Free Hermes. Pod is a simplified podcatcher that offers a diliberately reduced feature set in favor of simplicity. Compatible with the i. Tunes Music Transfer and the USB mass storage protocols. Supports feed autodiscovery. Juice Catcherformerly i. Podder Lets users select and. Media. Monkey. Catcher. Media. Monkey catalogs CDs, AAC, OGG, WMA, FLAC, MP3 and other audio files such as audiobooks, podcasts, etc. It includes a CD ripper, CDDVD Burner, and converter for saving music. It syncs tracks, playlists, and podcasts to portable audio devices such as i. Phones, i. Pods, MP3 Phones, and other devices, and supports hundreds of scripts, plug ins and visualizations to extend its functionality further. Miro. Catcher. Miro recently introduced a multi platform podcast support to its cool Miro Internet TV Software. The new setup has added an audio podcasts section to the software and a section for audio in the library. Newz. Crawler. Catcher. Newz. Crawler is a rssatom. Windows which provides access to news content from. Primetime. Catcher. Automated download scheduling, integrated media consumption, catch up ability, sortable media library, bookmarking support, and integrated podcast directory from Podcast Alley. RCFeedme. Catcher. Basic interface, not really designed for use with portable devices. Not an RSS reader. Replay AV Catcher for Streaming Internet Radio. Replay AV makes it. Recordings can be automatically transferred to your i. Pod. or other MP3 Player, burned to a CD, or you can just. PC. Its incredibly convenient. Yamipod. Catcher. Freeware application to. Pod under Mac OS X, Windows and. Linux. Has an RSSPodcast to i. Pod feature. Ziepod. Catcher. Ziepod is designed to keep you. Internet. i. Pod is a. Apple Computer with simple user interface designed around a. Most i. Pod models store media on a hard. Pods use flash memory. Name. Type. Intro i. Tunes. Catcher. Apples heavily commercialized tuner. Works. well with i. PHone, Nano, Ipod, Shuffle and other Apple products. Juice. Catcherformerly i. Podder Lets users select and. Playpod. Catcher designed exclusively for Mac OS X. Yamipod. Catcher freeware application to efficiently manage. Pod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Miro. Catcher. Miro recently introduced a multi platform podcast support to its cool Miro Internet TV Software. The new setup has added an audio podcasts section to the software and a section for audio in the library. Podcaster 4. Catcher. Well designed software with many features. Podcast Producer 2. Producer. Apple has released Podcast Producer 2 as a part of Snow Leopard Server. Its an end to end solution for encoding, publishing and uploading podcasts. Looks awesome. Ubercaster. Producer. An end to end producing application for Macintosh. Has cool Skype connection for phone conversationsinterviews and lots of great library management functions. Sound. Studio. 3Producer record professional sounding Podcasts and other audio dialog. Link is now to Amazon but it is not an affiliate link. Garageband. Recording Tool. Not really a full end to end podcast software, but its so good Im including it for the recording capabilities. Full featured recording studio software that can do a bang up job on voice podcasts, too. Youll need to do your own publishingrss. Pad version belowName. Type. Intro BPConf. Catcher. BPConf is a simple KDE configuration frontend for. Bash. Podder by Linc Fessenden. BPConf contains Bash. Podder. so you dont require anything else. Cast. Podder. Catcher. Now morphed into Icepodder below g. Podder. Catcherg. Podder is a Podcast receivercatcher written in. Python, using GTK. It manages podcast feeds for you and. Icepodder. Catcher. Ice. Podder is a podcatcher RSS client for Linux conceived as a replacement for Cast. Podder. Ice. Podder is written in python, and requires python 2. GTK. The goal of this project is to provide Linux users with a dedicated client to download podcasts, with an emphasis on reliability and stability. Liferea. Catcher. Liferea is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these. Linux or require many extra. Liferea tries to fill this. GTKGNOME. This is more complex than most, but has more configurability and power. Miro. Catcher. Miro recently introduced a multi platform podcast support to its cool Miro Internet TV Software. The new setup has added an audio podcasts section to the software and a section for audio in the library. Peapod. Catcher. Peapod is a powerful and easy to use command line. Its written in Python. Mark Pilgrims excellent feedparser library to. RSS feeds. While Peapod has. Penguin. TVCatcher. Penguin. TV is not just another RSS feed reader. It is. designed from the ground up to work seamlessly with. RSS format. Pod. Grid. Catcher personal internet radio news receiver. Podracer. Catcher. Podracer is a podcast downloader. It takes a file. with the URLs to all your podcast rss feeds and goes and. It is a BASH script with an internal Bit. Torrent. downloader written in Python. Rhythmbox. Catcher. Rhythmbox is an integrated music management. Apples i. Tunes. It. is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME. Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media. Stream. Tuned. Catcher. Stream. Tuned plays and records audio and video. It also reads stream. XMLRSS feeds. Streamtuned can act as Podcast client. Straw. Catcher. Straw is a feed reader aimed for users using the GNOME desktop. You subscribe to news, blogs, and podcast feeds and read the feeds in the comfort of your desktop, with or without online access. Yamipod. Catcher. Yami. Pod is a freeware application to efficiently. Pod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It. can be run directly from your i. Pod and needs no. Take a look at the feature list to find. Android, i. OS, Windows MobileNote with the explosion of widgets for Android, I have likely missed some good ones. But Im trying them all out as fast as I can. Your suggestions are welcome Cinchi. OS Android. Producer. Impressive app aimed at corporate webcasts and podcasts. Tied into conference recording approach. Cinchcast enables you to cost effectively enhance internal and external communications. With Cinchcasts integrated webcasting and conferencing solution, you can easily host a town hall, departmental meeting or live corporate event at a fraction of the cost of traditional conferencing or alternative web event solutions. Apple Podcast Appi. OS i. Pad. Catcher Podcasts app is the easiest way to discover, subscribe to and play your favorite podcasts on your i. Phone, i. Pad, and i. Pod touch. Audio. 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