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Pod Paradise
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Download episodes
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UI is not completely polished
It looks like a patchwork of boxes and buttons
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Browse other podcasts without interrupting current podcast
Other online podcast players interrupt your current podcast when you try to find another one. PodParadise does not.
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No mobile app
There is no mobile app so it only works in your browser.
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Subscribe to podcasts
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CastBox
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Needs manual to help with some features
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Wide coverage
This is a must-have podcast app if you're living in another country apart from the US. CastBox supports and shows podcasts from more than 70 countries.
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Next episode on Playlist doesn't always play after current episode finishes and not all episodes of subscription show up
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Vast library of podcasts and audiobooks
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Very invasive ads in free mode
They really degrade the experience in the free mode.
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Award winning interface
Optimized to help you hear what you want to hear.
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Adjustable playback speed
Slow down until 0.50x and speed up as fast as 3x.
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Weekly updates & improvements
The developers try to keep the app updated from bugs and to make it a world-class app. With ever-growing features and improvements, it even competes with the best podcast apps out there.
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"Trim Silence" feature
Skip the silence and listen more to words.
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Tag podcasts
Create tags to organize your podcasts.
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Pro Subscription available
Remove ads, "customize home page" feature, and more for total productivity.
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Podcast Addict
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Free ad supported version available
For those that would like to try out the app or don't mind advertisements in their apps there is a free version available for download.
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Design is hum-drum and cluttered
The UI is a bit boring and cluttered when compared to PocketCasts.
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A lot of features
The app provides a lot of features, adjustments, and settings.
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Can not easily share a podcast
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Import OPML
For networks out there that offer an OPML for their entire list of shows, users can import that full list, making an easy way to get an entire networks listings.
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Automatically creates play queue
When you play an episode from the Downloaded list, it makes a queue of all episodes for continuous play.
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Built in playlist shuffle feature
While not on by default users can go into the players settings to allow for a shuffle feature of all podcasts in the users playlist.
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Chromecast support
Chromecast is supported for those that want to stream their podcasts to a Chromecast compliant device.
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Radio Streaming
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Platforms:
Chromecast
Free tier:
Ad-supported
Chapters:
Yes
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Player FM
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Web player
Functional web app that shares settings with Android app.
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Next played episode is wrong sometimes
On some podcasts when an episode ends the player "jumps" to the last episode or even to an entirely different podcast.
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Seamless offline support
Latest episodes from Subscriptions and Play Later are automatically kept offline.
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Discovery
Can follow whole topics and search individual episodes.
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Cloud sync
Subscriptions and favorite topics sync across devices and the web.
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Best online support
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No ads
This shows a responsible attitude about in-app ads.
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SoundCloud
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Recommendations
Links to related music, based on what you're listening to, can be found in the sidebar.
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Can't do an advanced search
You can't search, for example, for Creative Commons music with the tag #trap. It could be useful to search for music you like that is under Creative Commons.
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Subscribe to artists
You can subscribe to artists to be notified the instant they upload a new song or give an update.
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Interface is full of bugs
The SoundCloud website has tons of problems, including issues with notifications, favorites, and uploading sounds.
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Explore tab has new music constantly
Explore tab on SoundCloud shows trending music that can be filtered based on genre/tag. There's a constant stream of new music.
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Audio ads in some uploaded content
Some content on SoundCloud includes audio ads, particularly sponsored podcasts. (Note that SoundCloud itself doesn't add these - all the audio you're hearing is exactly as it was uploaded.)
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Follow people
You can follow people with similar tastes or that often find new music. When they favorite a song, SoundCloud will notify you about it.
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Free to use
You don't even have to log in or sign up for an account if you don't want to. There are paid options for if you want to upload large quantities of audio (eg if you're a music label you'll need this), but it's free to download as much and as often as you like.
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Pre-releases
Some music labels, especially newer ones, release on SoundCloud before anywhere else.
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Creative Commons filter
SoundCloud allows for finding music that is licensed under Creative Commons.
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Platforms:
Web, Android, Desktop, Sonos, Windows Phone
Free tier:
Partial
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
256kbs AAC
Offline Download:
Premium (partial)
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Stitcher
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Inserts advertisments in between episodes
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Free
There are zero in app purchases meaning the app retains full functionality while also being free.
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Limited preferences
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Allows downloading episodes for offline listening on mobile devices
This is a useful feature for saving bandwidth and listening when you are not on a network.
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Cannot add RSS feeds
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Find similar podcasts through Smart Station
A feature called Smart Station will offer podcasts based on what you've previously listened to.
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Auto generated stations
Stitcher creates stations from a mix of podcasts, making for an easy way to listed to different things in one channel.
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TuneIn Radio
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Free version available
TuneIn Radio offers a free version of it's app with limited functionality.
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Free version has in app purchases
Ranging from $0.99-$9.99 the free version includes in app purchases that unlock extra features for the app.
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Does more than just podcasts
TuneIn Radio offers many different listening options inclusing AM/FM, Internet Radio and Podcasts. So while it does make a good podcast client, it also has more functionality than just a standard podcast player app.
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Doggcatcher
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Homescreen widget
Users can place a widget for the app on any of their home screens, which allows for easy controls of what is playing through the controls on the widget.
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No cloud sync
A glaring missing feature is that there is no cloud sync for the app, so any podcasts added to one device will not be able to be brought over to another. This can be time consuming for users who use multiple devices in that they would need to individually add their podcasts one by one to each install.
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Chromecast support
Users can cast their podcasts to othet Chromecast complient devices and browsers. Making for an easy way to stream content from the device to where they want to listen.
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View original messages, photos
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Podkicker Pro
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Powerful search and discovery features
Podkicker Pro provides a strong search feature with an engine of over 260,000 podcasts. There are many different ways you can search (keyword, name, RSS entry and more), and there is a match feature for finding new podcasts you might be interested in.
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No cloud support
Cannot sync podcasts, listen state, or position between devices.
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Powerful podcast management
Many useful settings to customize behavior, including automatic download of new podcasts, keep last X podcasts, auto delete after listened, etc..
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Great UI
Simple and easy to use.
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Overcast
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The ability to discover new or relevant podcasts ("Recommended for you") is practically useless
Similarly, the search feature seems to only look for podcast hosts or podcast names. You can't find all podcasts that has a specific guest.
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Smart Speed and Voice Boost
For listening to talk shows, Smart Speed allows you to skip silences and pauses. Voice Boost is very helpful when the speakers vary from really quiet to really loud - it balances the whole thing out. And you enable them during playback, so neither will mess up music podcasts.
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Very barebones webapp
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Voice Boost
Boosts and normalizes volume.
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Unplayed episodes
Does not have the ability to show unplayed episodes for individual podcasts.
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Very good audio quality
It has the best sounding audio when sped up. It also has neat features like the "Voice Boost" setting being tuned for being played when the phone is set flat on a table.
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Adds a subscription even after listening a single episode
It is not possible to pick a single Podcast Episode to download without having to subscribe to yet another Podcast feed (that shows up in your Subscriptions List).
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Feed redirection
Sometimes podcasts change their hosts/urls. Overcast will handle and remember this.
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Can't set a subscription to NOT download any episodes
By subscribing to a podcast you have to set it to download at least one (most recent) episode. There is the setting to set the podcast to stream only, but would prefer to set to zero downloads and choose which episodes to download individually.
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Easy playlists
Simple UI for making playlists of podcasts.
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Unable to sort by playtime
It would be nice to have the ability to sort tracks like podcasts from the shortest to the longest.
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Podcast specific settings
Speed, voice boost, smart speed, notifications, download/stream new episodes.
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No paged RSS feeds
this Podcatcher does not support reading longer RSS Feeds that are split into several pages (for faster access).
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Chapters navigation
Supports several Features for a great #UX to navigate Podcasts Episodes with chapter marks. Even shows a visual timeline for each chapter.
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Timestamp sharing
Links to episodes can be combined with timestamps for easy sharing (links the timestamp to the web app).
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Good catalogue
Pretty much the same as the other options, but nicer categories and list views.
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Ability to add podcast from URL
RSS or whatever else will work.
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Themes
Light, Dark (dark blue), Black.
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OPML import/export support
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Twitter integration
Recommendations within the app are surfaced to your followers.
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Platforms:
Web
Free tier:
ads, no file uploads AND no app icons
Push Notifications:
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Playlist Sharing:
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Pocket Casts
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Remembers playback speed & starting position
You can set a 'start from' position for a podcast to skip a set number of seconds from the beginning of an episode. Great for when you don't want to listen to an intro you've heard a couple of dozen times before. Additionally, you can also change the playback speed, to slow down fast talkers or speed up slow talkers.
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Cannot create custom playlists
You can not add specific podcast episodes to create a custom playlist. While you can set up "filters" to create a playlist, if you're trying to follow a thread of specific podcast episodes, you can't set that up.
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Quick access to Sleep Timer
The most pleasing User Experience (UX) to set a Sleep Timer. Activating the sleep timer will stop the podcast after a set period of time or at the End of the Episode.
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Skip episode often does not work with CarPlay
The Skip Episode feature, to automatically mark an episode as listened to and finshed, often does not work in CarPlay mode. Instead, you have to push the "skip forward" button a lot. Good luck having a long enough stoplight for that!
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Vibrant aesthetics
Pocket Casts has one of the most colorful, pleasant to use interfaces. For example, the app takes the most prominent color from the album art and colorizes the rest of the playback interface based on that color. This allows the app to stay vibrant and slightly different for each podcast. Or the way it displays featured podcasts in a colorful mosaic made from album art, makes the whole experience of using the app pleasant.
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Does not work with paid podcasts
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Auto download specific podcasts
You can set Pocket Casts to automatically download the latest episode of a podcast, whenever a new episode is released.
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Excellent, easy to use discovery system
Clicking the plus button in the top-right corner will bring you to featured podcasts. From there you can access multiple ways of finding new things to listen to such as: top charts (that can be separated in audio and video), search (that allows searching both by name and feed URL), a list of podcast networks and different podcast categories. They also have a great selection of podcasts to choose from. The team behind Pocket Casts work hard to maintain a reliable and high quality catalog so you can avoid out of date listings, problems with raw feeds, etc.
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Sync with iPhone, iPad, Android
If you use Pocket Casts on more than one device, you can synchronize settings, playback positions, etc., across all your devices.
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Sonos integration
It is possible to connect Pocket Casts with Sonos, and play podcasts.
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Global and per-podcast playback settings
Enables you to set a "global" playback speed to use for all podcasts which can be over-ridden by a podcast specific playback speed.
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Automated playlist creation
Pocket Casts has a feature called Episode Filter, that allows automatically creating playlists based on setting such as playing states (unplayed, playing, played), status (downloaded, downloading, not downloaded), episode type (audio, video) and of course podcasts themselves. You can also customize the appearance of the playlist with a color and an icon to help it stand out easier.
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Can set custom skip-forward and back timing
You can set custom "skip forward" and "skip backward" timings for easily skipping past parts of podcasts you don't like.
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Platforms:
Android >5.0, iOS, Windows Phone, Web Player
Playback Speed:
Yes
Chapters:
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Smart Speed:
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Spotify
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Huge collection of music and fast access to newly released songs  
Spotify has over 20 million songs and arguably the largest collection out of its competitors and usually has the fastest access to new music. The Spotify desktop client allows local music files to be imported with the option of syncing with a mobile device which largely mitigates the issue of missing artists.
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Free account have lots of ads
If you hate commercials, you would buy Premium or go on using something else.
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Related artists
Helps to find new authors based on your previous picks
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Discovery is terrible
The discovery algorithm is poor and does not learn fast enough. Not obvious how to train it.
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Curated playlists
Public playlists on Spotify created by other people are great for finding new music.
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Poor audio quality
There's a high range of bitrates and most of vary from average to bad.
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Client's functionality can be extended via third-party apps
Spotify desktop client allows for third-party apps. They extend the functionality of Spotify and many of them offer new ways of discovering music. Noteworthy apps include Moodagent, Last.fm, Swarm.fm, ShareMyPlaylists, The Hype Machine, We Are Hunted, Shuffler.fm.
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Has a free version 
A free, ad-supported account allows streaming from an extensive library of music.
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Weekly Discover playlist uses a great algorithm
A playlist generated by Spotify based on your listening habits and released every Monday. The algorithm used by this playlist is great and stands out from its competitors.
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Platforms:
Web; Android; iOS; Linux; Windows; MacOS
Playlist Sharing:
Yes
User-Created Playlists:
Yes
Offline download:
Yes
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Google Play Music
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Free no advertisements
Google Play Music is a free service for storing and streaming ones library that has zero advertisements in the interface as well as the playing music.
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Confusing to use
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Instant mixes
Google Play Music can make smart recommendations for playlist by the user just picking an artist or song they want recommendations formed from.
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No folder support
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Also offers streaming service
GPM can be used as a normal music player but also as a streaming service like Spotify.
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Want credit card info before using "free" service
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Plays from any source
Plays local music as well as from DLNA sources, so I can play from my home servers as well.
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Status bar not sensitive nor customizable
There is no way to go easily go back a specific amount of time (for example: Audible has a button that allows you to go back 30 seconds). The status bar could be more time specific. If you want to go back to a particular segment of listening, there is no way to know exactly where you will land. You have to do some kind of guessing and it is annoying. Lot of time wasted in searching in a blind manner.
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Upload library through browser
Google has added the option of uploading songs through the browser with the help of a Chrome extension download as well as directly through the desktop Chrome app.
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Quality only as high as 320kbps MP3s
There is no option to listen to lossless music, even if that is what the user has uploaded. The highest quality is 320kbps MP3s. If a lossless track has been uploaded and the user then downloads the track at a later date the file will also only be a 320kbps MP3.
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No way to start the app in ones library
The app offers no way to actually start up in ones library, either in the desktop Chrome app or the Android app. For those that only use this app for listening to their purchased or uploaded music this is pretty annoying as there s no real need for the front page of recommendations and activity. This doe snot necessarily need to be some social platform but just a way to listen to ones music, really the user should have the choice, especially if they are paying for this service through purchased music or their streaming service.
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Platforms:
Web, iOS, Android, Wear OS
Free tier:
Yes
Paid Plan Audio Quality:
320kbs MP3
Offline Download:
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iTunes
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Heavyweight
With each update, iTunes appears to get bigger and bigger, though adding little more value, especially for the user who just wants to listen to and organize music.
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Can create a playlist based on rules
There is a feature included in iTunes called Smart Playlists that allows the user to create playlists based on criteria such as BPM, Genre, Artist, Album, Plays, Rating, etc.
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Unfortunately required to fully manage iPods
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Can automatically create playlists based on a chosen song
There is a feature called Genius included in iTunes that allows the user to select a song and create a playlist based on that song. It will analyze the music library and choose songs similar in tone to the one chosen.
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Buggy iTunes app
Immediately after the worldwide launch of Apple Music, a new version of iTunes was released (12.2). Many users have reported issues with this release, such as music lists getting mixed up, music having wrong metadata, etc.
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Syncs across devices
Synchronization of playback information, podcast subscriptions, and settings is possible in iTunes. It can also automatically download purchases made on other devices.
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Duplicates media files
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Airplay support
Streaming audio to all Airplay enabled devices within WiFi range is permitted by iTunes. It's also possible to select more than one device to play a song at the same time.
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Album organization can be fragmented
Songs purchased from the same album at different times will be added as separate albums.
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Can auto-import CDs
The user can set up iTunes in such a way that media (from CDs) can be automatically imported once a CD is inserted. This also comes with customizable import settings (bitrate, codec). Additionally, iTunes can automatically fetch track names from the Internet.
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Authorization limit
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Built-in parental controls
iTunes parental controls can be used to deny access to certain parts of iTunes such as podcasts, internet radio, store, or shared libraries, as well as restricting access to media that has a certain rating or warnings.
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Can autopull information about songs
Track names and album artwork can be automatically obtained by iTunes.
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Sleek interface
The interface of iTunes presents a flat, clean design with playback controls at the top-left, search at the top-right, and a row of ways to categorize available media beneath that. It can also be minimized to take up much less space. The minimized interface is called the Mini Player and it can be set to display on top of all other windows. It's possible to show iTunes on top of all other windows when playing movies as well.
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iTunes store has a huge selection of media
The iTunes store offers a huge catalog of videos, songs, and podcasts.
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Advanced podcast management
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iCloud integration
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Internet radio
A music streaming service called Radio is available in iTunes. It creates stations based on chosen genres, songs, or artists and requires Apple ID for access.
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Ability to add RSS feeds
The ability to add RSS feeds in iTunes keeps the user informed of the latest web content.
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Podcasts
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Very slow searching through podcasts catalogs
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Comes pre-installed
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Makes my iPhone hot when using with associated battery drain (iPhone 11 Pro)
Still not fixed in iOS 17. Finally have to give up on this app.
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Sleep timer
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Random shutdowns
A few people have issues with the app randomly deciding to shut down or not starting.
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Free
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Can auto-download new episodes
You can set the app to automatically download new episodes. Additionally, you can set how many episodes should be stored locally.
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Saves podcasts to the iTunes directory
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iOS
Playback Speed:
Yes
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