This could be a dumb question, but is there any service that lets you: 1. Bookmark a time in a podcast 2. Highlight/tag a section or snippet 3. Contextually search for phrases or words in a podcast ?
Overcast (iOS app) does the first of your points.
We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts
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#242Creators may be entering a golden age, but the delivery methods and infrastructure have been stagnant for years now. We now have ongoing shows, evergreen episodic shows, "two amateurs in a basement" niche shows, 12-episode and it's done audiobooks, and various other designations of podcasts, and yet we still serve everything like it's a blog that needs to release content weekly. I also find it frustrating that we onl…
I like to listen on desktop and as far as I'm concerned there's nothing good. For Mac I suffer itunes. For Windows, I ended up installing Blue Stacks and using Google's Podcast app. Nothing native or web-based worked well for me. Unreliable or being delivered through Windows Store which constantly crashes for me were my main issues. For a while I used live bookmarks with Firefox, that was great but shortly after Fire…
There used to be an app called Podcasts Beta (https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/p/podcasts-beta/9nblggh1zj3r...) which I used quite a lot back when my Lumia 730 was still alive. It's good and the developer was very responsive but not sure what's the situation now after 2 years.
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Personally, I subscribe to the podcasts of: Sam Harris, Conan, The Energy Gang, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and a couple other NPR shows. None of my podcasts, IMO, are decreasing in quality, nor would I expect any of these groups to sell-out as they are off-shoots of other things. The podcasts I listen to are intentionally hand-selected over time to be 1) informative, 2) have a decent cont…
> In particular, I find independent podcasts like Sam Harris or Dan Carlin to be FANTASTIC, and that content is free for all to download in multiple ways. So, I'm not worried in the slightest. This. Dan Carlin is fantastic and I enjoy supporting him because of the quality. No Agenda and Congressional Dish are two more listener supported/value-for-value podcasts which do an outstanding job. No Agenda, in particular, r…
I haven't heard of No Agenda in years.
I stopped listening to them a while back after they had a hard right turn IIRC. Their business model was excellent though.
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That's a pretty high bar which almost nobody needs to meet to be widely acclaimed and highly profitable.
Such a weird bar anyways. I can binge heroin easier than I can binge a good book. That kind of reasoning celebrates the movement towards skinner boxes and addiction.
Sounds like a person who wants something thematically consistent to listen on long commutes, or plane rides.
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I subscribe to the podcasts of: Sam Harris, Conan, The Energy Gang, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and a couple other NPR shows. None of my podcasts, IMO, are decreasing in quality, nor would I expect any of these groups to sell-out as they are off-shoots of other things. The podcasts I listen to are intentionally hand-selected over time to be 1) informative, 2) have a decent cont…
> In particular, I find independent podcasts like Sam Harris or Dan Carlin to be FANTASTIC, and that content is free for all to download in multiple ways. So, I'm not worried in the slightest. This. Dan Carlin is fantastic and I enjoy supporting him because of the quality. No Agenda and Congressional Dish are two more listener supported/value-for-value podcasts which do an outstanding job. No Agenda, in particular, r…
I love how Carlin paywalls his old shows but then mentions in the podcast that they're easy to find on pirate sites if you can't afford to pay him. The paywall is thus implicitly recognised as a minor nuisance meant to make you consider donating. His is the only podcast I've ever given money to, and while I'd like to believe that this has more to do with supporting his quality content than the minor nuisance of pirating his old shows it was actually the act of looking for an old show and finding it paywalled that made me stop and punch in my credit card number. I had intended to support him for a while before that, but never taken the time.
Edit: removed "ad-free" as a descriptor of Carlin's shows, since I recall him having Audible ads.
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Podcasts aren't for reading a prepared text. They're mostly for conversations.
Podcasts are very good for interviews and conversations, which of course can be cleaned up and transcribed but may suffer for it. There are also audio dramas, audiobooks, documentaries, and so on, that are all tightly scripted and can work very well. Some of them may work just as well as longform text and I guess that's what GP prefers. I enjoy audio documentaries a lot though.
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Podcasts aren't for reading a prepared text. They're mostly for conversations.
Listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on World War I, and it will change your mind on the need for a podcast to have a conversation. https://www.dancarlin.com/
For me, the best series by far that Dan Carlin did was the one on Genghis Khan ("The Wrath of the Khans", I believe it's called). The WWI one was also quite engaging, though. Before hearing it, I really was not interested in WWI at all, but he managed to make it very interesting for me.
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I’m always surprised when people complain about it. It does everything it should for me, syncs with my other devices and automatically downloads the new episode over night and tells me about it in the morning. What are you missing?
I live in Germany. I can only see German-language podcasts in the app. If I want to see podcasts in English, I need to switch my whole iTunes account to a different country. Of course, that creates problems elsewhere. I mean, come on. Most of the interesting content is in English. This is a simple feature.
You mean for the suggestions / Top 10 lists? Yes these are the ones from your current country just like in the iTunes store.
You can still find every podcast if you search by name or browse by category though. You make it sound like you can only listen to German podcasts via the stock podcasts app which is definitely not the case.
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#249There's simply no way that "23-25% of US adults listen to podcasts daily or a few times a week."
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I don't know why anyone would subject themselves to the awfulness of Apple Podcasts. What were they thinking?! It's just bad.
I’m always surprised when people complain about it. It does everything it should for me, syncs with my other devices and automatically downloads the new episode over night and tells me about it in the morning. What are you missing?
Apple's podcast app has always been horrible at syncing between devices. Overcast was like a breath of fresh air.