Stitcher for Podcasts 12+

I actually have my own podcasts but didn’t listen to them much - partially because Apple Podcasts is so hard to use. Switched to Stitcher to listen to The Magnus Archives and I love it!

My favorite features are being able to change the playback speed (I listen to audiobooks at 1.5, podcasts seemed so slow) and the fact that it actually plays the next episode automatically instead of the previous episode (there’s a setting to order by oldest in Apple but it’s so hard to find, I keep forgetting where it is). Plus, instead of scrolling through 200+ episodes to find my place I can choose a season from the dropdown! Honestly these are such basic features, this is really doing the bare minimum, so maybe it’s silly to give five stars for it - but Apple Podcasts fails at them so by comparison Stitcher is way ahead.

Love to see this feedback. Thanks for your review! We really appreciate it.

Yet again, had an issue where the solution is to uninstall/install. That does fix it, but please for the love of everything good, store which episodes I have in queue, so that I don’t have to redo this when the app crashes. And while you’re at it, please show the total length of all episodes in queue. Would be 4.5 stars rounded up to 5 if it were not entirely unsurprising that this happened. Would really like to see more QA before releases, and the above-mentioned storing of queue as a mitigation to the likelihood of crashing. (I had several hours of episodes from different shows in the queue, in anticipation of a long drive.)

PS - More broadly, why are the queue and download preferences (automatically download, keep X number of episodes downloaded) not stored in the account so they are not lost? The streaming TV services don’t require setting up all over again for a new screen. Not fun with Stitcher to set these up all over again when you have to uninstall/reinstall. And as long as I’m ranting, why does Stitcher only about 95% accurately track which shows I’ve listened to? (It mostly works, but definitely not completely).

Thanks for your feedback and we’re sorry the update isn't giving you a very good experience - we hear you and are working hard to make Stitcher the best podcast app it can be!

We are aware of the up next episode re-ordering issue and working on a fix now.

Thankyou for bringing up the issue of disappearing episodes. I've ticketed this so our developer team will look into it and see what's going on!

That's interesting about the casting and stopping issues. Could you email support@stitcher.com and let us know what device it was? We'd love to look into that and fix it, and losing your place in an episode is highly annoying!

We are committed to fixing these issues and making Stitcher an awesome slick app you want to use, so we really appreciate the time you've taken to give us this feedback!

I’ve been subscribed to this podcast service for about three years and I can tell you that it’s wonderful I originally joined because I love the podcast How Did This Get Made?, but they have so many other wonderful podcast that are very informative and engaging that are only available on this platform, LeVar Burton reads is one of my favorites the application is very easy to use and the off-line function is great. I’ve been living overseas and I can only use this application with my VPN turned on so the off-line version is really helpful. I recommend this service. The one thing I would say is it is a little pricey but worth it to get all the features in Stitcher premium content

Thanks for the great review. It's awesome. Happy new year!