Pocket Casts also highlights other improvements in today’s update to version 7.9: If you prefer to simply customize the home screen icon for Pocket Casts, there are four new icons included in this update: First, is a new theme called Radioactivity that redesigns the entire Pocket Casts app. There are a couple of other visual changes with today’s Pocket Casts update. Your Up Next and playback progress is of course synced automatically across all the platforms you use Pocket Casts on.

Even better you can download or stream them with just a few taps. If you’ve got a WiFi or cellular connection you can now view your subscribed podcasts, filters and files right on your watch. This feature is limited to Pocket Casts Plus users, which is $0.99 per month or $10 per year: You can also download podcasts directly from the Pocket Casts app on Apple Watch. With today’s update, you can now stream Pocket Casts podcasts directly from your Apple Watch using cellular or Wi-Fi. The app has been updated to version 7.9, bringing Apple Watch enhancements as well as new icons and theme options. There are loads of CarPlay related tickets already so maybe it’ll get fixed as those get mopped up.Pocket Casts has become the latest podcast player to add support for standalone alone Apple Watch playback. I don’t know anything really except that vague description. I don’t know how to tell them to reproduce it. I need to relaunch it and then scrub to where I was because it will have forgotten.īut… that’s a crappy bug report. I know that if I hear this, the app will crash within another minute or so. Once in a while, I hear a little hiccup of sound, where after about one minute of listening it’ll rewind like 2 seconds.

I use Pocket Casts with CarPlay every day of my life. No small job to ready to a codebase for untold public eyeballs. Took them just over a year, which feels about right to me. Friggin wildcard acquisition right? Although Matt has said:Īutomattic is structured a bit like a holding company. I like to think of us as like Berkshire Hathaway with a common digital platform, is definitely what we aspire to.Īutomattic is all about open source, so it was cool to see Pocket Casts go open source. It was July 2021 when Automattic bought it. I’ve used Pocket Casts as my preferred podcast app for… I dunno a long time I don’t really remember using anything else.

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