Writing Excuses Podcast - App for Android Phone

[stormvisions he/him]

I listen to Writing Excuses when I walk. Right now I have to navigate the browser, while I try to stay in my lane (at night) and zoom, try to hit the download button, ... you get the idea.

 

There isn't an official itunes app for Android. I don't want to copy a gazzilion MB of MP3's to my phone and I don't want to arbitrarily download and test all those apps - which may or may ot work as advertised, and many of which spend a lot of time sending data to the net from my experience.

 

I thought I'd ask if any of you use a particular app.

 

 

[gjustice99 she/her]

I have a similar idea in putting it on the itunes store under podcasts

[stormvisions he/him]

The problem is there isn't an official iTunes app for the Android.

[stormvisions he/him]

Trying Player FM app right now and heading out for my walk, and will give it  test with the WE podcast.

[Lord Pifferdoo he/him]

Downcast is an app I use for my iPhone 4S, thought it isn't available on android.

However (one google search later), I found a site that gives some pretty good alternatives.

http://alternativeto.net/software/downcast/?platform=android

[Argent he/him]

I use Podbay. Everything except the last dozen episodes or so disappeared a few weeks back (at least for me), but it might be a temporary bug.

[stormvisions he/him]

Thanks all. Will check them out. I got Player FM last night but despite the fact that it knows how many episodes are available, no amount of fiddling seems to get me more than the last 10 or so.

[Argent he/him]

It actually seems like the problem comes from Writing Excuses' website itself. The RSS episodes feed podcast aggregation applications usually use only lists the last 10 episodes. I'll contact WE and ask them about it.

[stormvisions he/him]

Great. For now I am download the mp3's for a couple seasons and will load them on my phone. I don't want to encourage that because it would chug their bandwidth.

 

The also make some money from selling the CD's of past episodes, so maybe they don't want to make all of them available in that way (though you can still navigate to them)? There is a bandwidth cost for them, associated with the site and downloads. They might look at a way that allows easy access to all the files with some sort of convenience fee or "support us" fee - if moderate some might pay for this and it would help put some pennies in the tip jar.