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Podcast apps, good ones, have many features you don't need in a simple app like a winamp or vlc. 1) An online catalog of series that is searchable (probably bo
by sleepybrett 3y ago
Podcast apps, good ones, have many features you don't need in a simple app like a winamp or vlc.
1) An online catalog of series that is searchable (probably both by name and topic and participants).
2) That catalog must contain metadata both at a series level and an episode level.
3) That online catalog must also be navigable without search, of course.
4) Ability to subscribe to any given series and for the app to have an option to pre-cache an episode for offline use.
5) Several content controls that aren't really required for music listening but are must haves for podcasts such as timed skips (30s, 60s) and playback speed adjustment (only useful in a music player where you probably want to do beat matching).
I think the biggest differentiator though is the episode/series catalog. It makes podcasts actually discoverable.
- prmoustache 3y agoThere are audio players that allows you to find radios by various criterias: genre, bitrates, location, etc. I don't think it is hard in term of UI nor does it justify a different app when you can have an additionnal tab that allows to find podcast. You just have to change the criterias. Subscription to podcast is done via rss right? I don't think that is a huge deal either.
- sleepybrett 3y agoBut it wouldn't make a lot of sense to add this to a generic music player .. whatever the modern winamp is. It just comes down to that management/browse/search task dwarfs the playback code. I'd rather have small apps that do one thing well, not a megaapp that does all things badly.