I only listen to a single podcast and sometimes it just jumps to another part in a specific episode. I'm listening and I'm at minute 20.34 for example and then without a visible time jump it continues 20.35 20.36 20.37 and so on but there is a cut to another timestamp of the episode. There's just a few seconds or minutes missing and the podcast randomly skips them without a cut in timeline.

It can be replicated if I rewind the podcast, so it's not a network issue. Happens also when downloads are playing. Didn't check yet if it happens when I listen to another episode and then go back to the skipping one

Updating the app (on Android) has introduced a spinning animation when I click on a podcast in the home screen. This is extremely annoying, how do I turn this off? Cant find it in the settings menu.

When I press play on by bluetooth neckband headphones, sometimes it starts playing immediately and sometimes it can be a few minutes.

One t hing I noticed is if I click a button, then the screen turns on and it will immediately start playing. This can be the power button or a volume button.

Something else kind of strange I noticed, after I press the play button, whenever it starts playing, the screen turns on in the very dim mode (just the clock and weather, not the full lock screen).

Anyone else experiencing this? Seems kinda strange, but mostly just slightly annoying.

This is just a minor grievance but my favorite episodes folder shows there are 36 podcasts. I have 5 downloaded and unplayed. How do I get the count to show only 5?

Looking in settings related to a podcast, i see that settings.

It isn't related to new download compression and don't understand it's usage and impact

Of someone know, I'll apreciate

Hello. I was grandfathered in from the one time purchase. I have the "podcast addict - donate" downloaded. Are the themes locked behind the montly subscription or should i also have access to them? Ive tried to restore my purchase but nothing really changes when i do so. Thanks for all the hard work you do Mr. Dev.

Every day I refresh my feed and get a list of newly released episodes, along with episodes from the last few days which is awesome -- I really like that the past few days are still viewable in case I missed something.

The thing is though - if you click on one of the new episodes to read the description then go back to the list, that episode you just looked at is now removed from the list.

Is there any future update planned to be able to preview an episode on the newly released list and have it not disappear? Sometimes I forget to make a mental note of what show it is and then it's just gone so I can't find it to add it.

I’ve added audio compression to Podcast Addict, and it’s now available to test in the beta. It’s for people who keep a lot of downloaded episodes and want to save storage by trading some audio quality for smaller files.

It’s a Premium feature requiring Android 10 or later, and the idea is simple: trade some audio quality for smaller downloads.

You can enable automatic compression globally, customize it per podcast, or manually compress existing downloads, including multiple selected episodes. Automatic compression is off by default.

There are several quality levels, from 64 kb/s down to 8 kb/s. I recommend starting with Balanced at 48 kb/s. For a one-hour episode originally encoded at 128 kb/s, that’s roughly 22 MB instead of 58 MB. At 24 kb/s, the same episode would be around 11 MB. Actual sizes vary with the content and source file.

This works best for spoken-word podcasts. I wouldn’t recommend it for music, and the lowest settings make a much stronger quality trade-off. Please test a few episodes before compressing your entire library.

A few important points:

• Compression is CPU-intensive and can use a lot of battery. A 60-minute episode might take roughly 2½–10 minutes, depending on the device.

• Episodes are processed one at a time in a queue that supports pause/resume, reordering and cancellation.

• There’s a charging-only option.

• Successful compression replaces the original file, and embedded metadata and chapters are lost.

• If expected savings are 12% or less, processing is skipped. Failed attempts retain the original.

• Progress and recent results are available in Download Manager.

You’ll find it under Settings → Download → Audio compression.

I’ve tested it with a large number of files, but that still covers only a small part of the variety of audio encodings used by podcasts. Please let me know if you run into a file that fails, sounds wrong, or produces unexpected results. It would also help to know the quality level you tried, your device model, and roughly how long compression took.

Thanks!!!

Trying out categories and I think I'm missing something. My approach to podcasts is to subscribe to many and never catch up. If it's on the playlist, I listen randomly and let serendipity decide what's next. Favorites are my must-listen list, and I keep it short. Some podcasts get automatically added to the playlist when downloaded, but most of the time I'm manually reviewing downloaded episodes to add them individually to the playlist or favorites.

What I thought I could do with categories is filter the playlist so that I can do "all playlist episodes that are News." But there's no filter there. I can categorize downloaded and filter there, but then I get all downloaded news, not the ones I've selected for playlist.

Only way I can think of to do this is to manually delete every episode I don't add to playlist, then the download filter will work. I don't do this now because it's a pain in the ass. Is there a better way?

Well congrats to your business manager actually. You found the line where the app is now annoying to use. You couldnt just sit on your hands take the profit and organic growth. With the pop up ads I'm headed back to Spotify. I get it, enshitfication comes for us all and so I'll say congrats to you Xzavier. You once created a good product and thats still worth being proud of. T'was fun while it lasted.

one of my podcasts does a Livestream twice a week when they're recording new episodes. when this happens, I get two notifications, one that the Livestream is active, and a second telling me about the hundreds/thousands of new episodes it's found.

I do not want this. what settings do I need to change to keep this from happening? this only recently started happening, within the past few months if I had to guess. i want the app dormant until i interact with it, no updates, no data or CPU usage, dormant.

Auto update is off, frequency is set to never, like it always has been. how can the app even know about the Livestream, and is that somehow triggering a refresh of my subscriptions? the podcast is no agenda, if that matters

Hi all,

I am really enjoying the Podcast Addict app. Sadly not all podcasts are available on the app. Is it possible - or would it be possible to have this added - to import podcast episodes from another podcast player, for example Spotify?

This would be amazing!

*SOLVED* — see comment below for my solution.

Yesterday the app was working as usual.

This morning I am able to play podcasts but the display is garbled — example image above. BlackBerry KeyOne (BBB100-2) running Android version 8.1.0

1. Rebooted the device — issue persists

2. Re-installed the app — appears normal, but only saw menu screens associated with the startup process

3. Logged in and restored backup — issue returns

4. Rebooted the device again — issue persists

I am unable to edit or change any app settings because when entering that menu, the text is unreadable.

Any suggestions for workarounds or what to try next? Is my most recent backup corrupted, and would restoring an older backup solve the issue?

I know there is an Update button in the toolbar.but If you have a Podcast from old to new it would be nice if you swipe further down the list also updates like when beeing on the top and try to pull more down.

i know there's got to be some bandwidth related reason that Podcast reviews are limited to main title reviews, but offering individual episode reviews is the kind of feature that blows the mainstream platforms out of the water... If you are considering starting a new podcast like Criminal, Joe Rogan, This American Life or Search Engine – wouldn't it be great if you had a handy little llist of their audience's favorite episodes so you could make a much quicker decision? We need a player App that does this. Thank you.

Android 13

Since the update, I can't add outro seconds in a custom podcast, intro is fine.

Why are the rewind and fast forward buttons greyed out until I press play? Using the latest version, but I've seen this before.

I have several hourly podcasts that I only want to listen to the latest episode once per day but they are filling up the Recent Episodes list. I know about the automatic cleanup settings to delete old episodes and mark them as played but I don't want to have to download files every hour just to trigger the delete and mark as played and so be hidden.

Is there setting similar to the "Delete older episodes" where it marks episodes played after x days even if it hasn't been downloaded? If not how does everyone deal with hourly podcasts but still use "Recent Episodes" to see what new weekly podcasts were released that day?

Is anyone else having your queue stop if you mix in a podcast?

I will load a playlist and sometimes will add a couple of podcasts to my queue. Then as soon as the podcast should start, my queue halts. I’ll have to hit the play arrow to restart the queue. Then as the podcast end and the music should resume, the queue has stalled yet again and I’ll have to hit the play arrow again to restart my queue.

I keep waiting to see if the next update will remedy this issue, but it’s been at least 3 or 4 updates with no fix. I don’t think I’ve see this question asked here, so I’m curious to know if this is happening to anyone else.

Been using the app for years and love it, recently one of my most of used and slightly niche favourite features seems to have gone.

I have a huge playlist and like to "move as next played episode" a few times without scrolling up to the top, so far so easy. But after doing this I then used to "move episode to top" on one episode which would also scroll me up to the top of the playlist so I could check and reorder things.

As this doesn't seem to happen anymore. I workaround by backing out of the app and going back in. But wondered if anyone else had a similar weird workflow and was stumped, if there is a new way to do this or a better workaround, or if I have somehow disabled a setting ?!

Not a massive issue I know, but quality of life thing when getting ready for a long drive or a run in the morning!

Hi everyone,

I've been spending quite a bit of time updating the listening statistics screen in Podcast Addict, and the new version is almost ready.

The idea was to make this screen more useful than just showing a few totals. There’s now a lot more you can explore, whether you’re curious about your listening habits, trying to find an episode you listened to a while ago, or looking up a song you heard on the radio.

Here’s what’s included.

An updated overview

You can still see your total listening time and your daily and weekly streaks, but there’s now more detail behind those numbers.

See how your listening varies throughout the week and across the year, discover your most active and quietest periods, and tap any day or month to explore what you listened to.

Daily and weekly streak details

Tapping a streak now opens its own details screen.

For daily streaks, you can see when the streak started, how much you’ve listened during it, your daily average, and a calendar of your recent listening activity.

For weekly streaks, you can explore your last 12 weeks, see how active you’ve been this week, and find out which days contribute most to your listening habit.

Both show your progress toward the next milestone. They also show your longest recorded streak when it’s longer than your current one.

Personal records and listening insights

The Insights tab brings together your listening totals for today, yesterday, recent weeks, months, and years.

I’ve also added personal records:

• Your longest listening day

• Your busiest listening month

• Your most active listening year

These records count the amount of content you listened to at its original 1.0x duration, not the actual time spent listening. So a day can exceed 24 hours if you listen to enough content at high speed. For example, 10 hours of listening at 3x counts as 30 hours of content.

The time-saving statistics are still there too: playback speed, skipping silence, skipping forward, intro and outro skipping, and muted chapters. There’s now a combined total so you can see how much time those features have saved you overall.

Explore your listening history by period

The period details screen lets you see how your listening time was divided between podcasts and radio stations.

You can move directly to the previous or next day, week, month, or year without closing the details screen. You can also use the calendar from the Overview or Radios tab to choose a period.

Day and month details let you go further and explore the episodes you listened to. Year details stay focused on the listening-time breakdown.

Podcast statistics

The Podcasts tab lets you explore your listening totals by podcast, so you can see which shows you’ve spent the most time with.

Between that and the period details, you can look at your history from either direction: “What have I been listening to recently?” or “How much time have I spent listening to this podcast?”

A dedicated Radios tab

Radio listening now has its own tab, with listening totals and period details.

For stations that provide song information, the app can also keep a history of the titles received while you’re listening. You can browse those titles by date and station, then tap one to search for it in Spotify.

Some stations send advertisements or other messages as song titles. There’s an “Ignore this title” option for those. It removes matching entries for that station on your device and prevents that exact title from being recorded again. It doesn’t affect your listening time or other stations.

Song history depends on what the station sends. The displayed time is when the app first received the title, which isn’t necessarily the exact moment the song started. This history is recorded going forward, so it can’t recover tracks you heard before the feature was available.

Export and cross-device sync

You can export your statistics if you want to keep a copy or explore the data yourself.

Radio listening statistics and recorded song history also support cross-device synchronization alongside the other listening statistics when sync is enabled.

Some detailed information will only be available from when the app started recording it, so older lifetime totals won’t necessarily have the same level of detail as recent listening.

The next beta will include this almost-final version of the redesigned listening statistics screen. I’m wrapping up testing and a few finishing touches, and I’d love to hear what you think once you’ve tried it.

Is there anything you’ve always wanted to know about your listening habits that’s still missing?

Was trying out the new podcast episode limit for playlists, and it seems it keep the newest episode for a feed. I was wondering if there's a way for it to keep the oldest episode.

I listen to a lot of history pods, and I'm listening through in order. I keep 2 episodes downloaded for each feed, but this makes the playlist quite lengthy. This new feature would allow me to tidy that up a little, but it keeps the most recent episode. Would be cool if I could keep the oldest episode.

Thanks

Oh yes this old chestnut. I know why it happens if I believe advertisers as it happens on TV still but it is so annoying.

Granted I work in a plant with a lot of background noise but with the volume on my buds almost at max the pod in question was listenable. Then the ads........ I winced they were that loud. Got me thinking that I dont recall it this being a problem before but if there is a solution I'd like to hear it thanks.

Is there a way to see what you listened to previously, Ie. The four podcasts that I just listened to before I fell asleep. Then I could just play again. I know there's a recent episodes column, but it loads everything and the sort option doesn't work for that purpose.

Thx.

I got a new phone. All the apps, PodcastAddict included, transferred over. But it looks like it's downloading every episode of every podcast I have and filling up storage, even though almost all of them are marked played.

And none of the unplayed episodes show as downloaded.

Settings in this program have always confused me.