Podcast Player RSSRadio

I have been using RSS Radio to listen to podcasts ever since Apple’s native podcast app quit making sense. This app does almost everything I want and is the best of all I have tried. Pros: Very easy to organize my podcasts. You can assign 2 categories to each podcast which then creates playlists by category in addition to the default playlist. You can modify the options for default settings when you subscribe to a podcast ( i.e., download latest 1, 2 or all unlistened episodes, add to front or end of the play lid, start after xx seconds). You can then set these uniquely for each podcast. This app has the most options for this than other apps I have tried. What I wish the app would do: Create my own playlist for individual podcast episodes. This would come in handy when I am planning for a long road trip. Managing this through “favorites” almost works, but is not easy to work with. I haven’t been able to figure out how to modify the order of podcasts in any playlist other than default. But I haven’t found another app that could do this either. Overall, I am very happy with the app.

If you listen to a lot of shows, this is your player. Period. None of the social duff and show promo previews the native app is cluttering every screen with now. Just your shows and their episodes with full control over every aspect of each. From serialized shows you want to plow through starting at episode 1, to daily news where you will never dig back through archives, to shows you've just discovered with 200 back episodes you want to selectively pick through, this app lets you tweak ALL the settings for each show to keep your playlist fresh and filled with your must-listens. Auto-queue places your must-listens in the queue automatically and you even get to dictate where in the queue they get added. Manual reordering of not only each category, but of the shows you place in the categories is a godsend. Easy to add single episodes from shows you don't want to subscribe to. Super efficient listening with playback speeds, silence skipping, customizable forward and backward skip amounts, and customizable show start and finish skips. Digging through the settings might seem daunting, but honestly every item is a delight as you discover the ability to do things you didn't even know you wanted to do. And the default settings would work great anyway. Happily upgraded not to gain features or remove ads, but because this amount of attention to detail deserves support.

RSS Radio does the one thing I absolutely need in a podcast app, it allows you to easily listen to old podcasts in chronological order. It does this with an option called “download oldest unlistened”. With this option, when you finish a pod and it is deleted, the app will then download the oldest pod that you have not listened to and add it to the play queue. I listen to a lot of podcasts like this, mostly on history and this app has saved me an enormous amount of time. AFAIK, no other podcast app has a similar feature. Update: 2 years later and there still is no other podcast player I know of that will play old podcasts the way I want. The app is still the best out there.

I’ve been using this app for several years now. I love the ability to have individualized settings for each podcast like how many episodes I want to have auto downloaded. If I want them to get put to the bottom of the playlist or the top... I’m also a huge fan of the running/auto populating play queue and that it’s pretty easy to move items on the play queue around. At the moment the app gets a little burdensome if you end up juggling a lot of podcasts/large playlist (I have a lot of things set to auto download because service/internet can be hit or miss for me and I sometimes need to hit the road at a moments notice and it’s great to not have to worry about having stuff downloaded or queueing stuff up while driving). I would love if there was some sort of computer/web interface to more quickly be able to clear/reorganized a large queue (a mouse/keyboard is a little more effortless than endless swiping) I’d also love to see even more customizable rules when it comes to how the queue forms, like an ability to ‘shuffle play’ with the ability to ear mark certain shows to only play oldest to newest (shuffle play with a series can be confusing). Regardless, I appreciate the app and will continue to use it for the foreseeable future!

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This was my fav app I used daily for years, never a issue, always reliable, its glitchy, I hate how it doesnt automaticly show all shows without asking it to, and the worst is how it automatically removes played ones from my playlist with no option of keeping them there like before. I re-listen to them and I like my playlost in certain order and now i have to hunt for specific one to re que it and its sooooooo frusterating. I wish they just left it be it was fine for years. Please fix and give back reg interface and options as before. Update: the sleep timer crash got fixed but everything else is same if not worse. Please put iit back to how it was before these updates I hate them. Nothing works right, and now the end play at certain time doesnt work and i used that all the time to. The play que is so messed up and glitchy. Im so dissapointed this was most reliable app for years and now its getting worse each update.