She says she gave herself “the gift of time - not time saved, but time spent in a place I really wanted to stay.” Life isn’t always about speeding through a queue as if it’s a checklist that exists simply to be checked. Your brain will have no problem following the words of what people are saying, but your understanding and retention will be dramatically affected.Īs Galen Beebe said in a recent Bello Collective newsletter, the sweet spot for certain shows might be. Good for getting the general idea of something.
1.3x: Perhaps starting to get too fast for highly produced and tightly edited shows or fiction where you don’t want to miss anything.1.2x: Still manageable for pretty much any show, particularly if you’ve grown accustomed to 1.1x.A nice way to shave a little time off your entire queue. 1.1x: You can easily listen to almost any show at this speed with barely a notice.But I will say, listening to music shows faster than 1x isn’t all the bad.
1x: Good for a show that relies heavily on music, like Song Exploder.Even among podcast purists, it has become more socially acceptable to turn up the speed. Listening at 1.1x or 1.2x feels nearly the same as 1x, and it still shaves off a noticeable bit of time. While some apps (like Apple Podcasts), offer a limited range of listening speeds, most apps provide a more granular level of control, allowing for increments of. Going straight from 1x speed to 1.5x speed can be overwhelming. One of the advantages of listening to a podcast (versus listening to music), however, is that you can slightly turn up the speed it plays without any noticeable difference. If you’ve never listened to a podcast at anything other than at 1x speed, 1.5x can feel downright silly. Maximizing the Most Common Settings Listening Speed I know there are dozens of apps out there, but this collection provides a good cross-section of what a majority of listeners are likely to use. The apps I chose to thoroughly dig into were Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro, Stitcher, Podcast Addict, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.
#POCKET CASTS VS OVERCAST HOW TO#
Consider this your guide on how to maximize the obvious and not-so-obvious features sprinkled throughout the podcast app landscape. Lastly, if you guys need an Interaction Designer, let me know.Most podcast apps now come with powerful features that are easy to overlook, and all it takes is around ten minutes playing around with a new app to get yourself up to speed. For podcasts, that could also mean syncing with iCloud, or other popular services such as Overcast.fm that keep track of listening history. That means working with Amazon and Audible to connect to the Audible cloud (as I see has been requested by dozens of people already). My recommendation and preference would be to integrate with cloud services specific to the content your customers are listening to. If I used the controller to listen to things while on-the-go, then all I have to do is connect to WIFI at home, hit play, and I wouldn't miss a beat.
#POCKET CASTS VS OVERCAST OFFLINE#
It would be great to walk in the house, and pick up where you left off with your podcast/audiobook that you're listening to on the phone.Ī weird (not recommended) solution could even be offline mode for the SONOS controller. One reason I love SONOS is because I can be connected to my home wirelessly. This should be a feature within SONOS in general, for those really long music tracks (a symphony?), but I think the best example is either an audio book or podcast. Overcast is great because it will remember my track position across devices. I understand there are technical limitations with SONOS, such as requiring the files to be in your music directory (thus the Podcasts app requirement), and I love the Overcast app on my phone, but I think the heart of what needs to be address is remembering track position.
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