Podcasts, For The Love Of

So, Podcasts, Spotify and Apple are just miserable to work with. I have two ways to manage podcasts.

Use Spotify, when between finding and selecting the podcast (Beelzebub, help you, if you are trying to get to the 35th podcast of 248) and downloading, can take you 5 to 10 minutes. Hopefully ,it actually loads.

Use a cable and Apple’s podcast application. These, to put it simply, suck. They don’t sync well across devices (IOS and iTunes), you need a cable and you have to manually manage the podcasts.

I hate both of these solutions, although I mostly use the cable and the Apple app. It’s still easier than Spotify..

I’m not here to say the AW is magic at this, it 100% isn’t because of their native podcast solution, but, they have Overcast, and it is really good. It just works and in a mostly logical process.

So, maybe I’m missing something that works a lot better? Any suggestions? If not, maybe we can get Garmin to actually care about this.

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0 Stromdiddily over 5 years ago

Spotify podcast interface is a joke. My vote would be for Garmin to accept one of the top 3rd party podcast specific apps (stitcher, podbean, pocketcasts, etc)

0 robbiecarver over 5 years ago

Same. I was excited about the podcast option until I tried to actually get some on the device, and it's just way too cumbersome.

0 Nadav over 5 years ago in reply to Stromdiddily

Big upvote for pocket casts.

There is runcasts, but another 3rd party option would be amazing

0 jburchm1 over 5 years ago

I was really happy with Runcasts on my 5x Plus. I've been eagerly waiting for it to come to the 6.

0 DontGetTheSwiss over 5 years ago

It looks like runcast is available now.

How does it handle a podcasts with a lot of back episodes that you are trying to work through. Can you say, load 3 episodes from the beginning, and work forward? The description doesn’t read that way.

0 arselumaco over 5 years ago

I´m using Amazon Prime Music and is perfect for my 6x Pro

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

Big upvote as well. I'd upgrade from my aging Vivosmart 3 to a Vivoactive or Forerunner one if it could support a podcasting application on a standalone basis and sync to the same app on android read status, etc. Currently am bringing my phone on an annoying armband and would rather leave it behind. I notice Runcasts has a comment that it's being retired, so Garmin may want to take this over and support that kind of integration. Music for me is much less interesting than podcasts to keep my mind busy as I run long distance.

0 DontGetTheSwiss over 5 years ago

Noticed something new the other day. On my iPhone I was able to save podcast episodes to a playlist and sync them. It was really slow, took about 10 minutes, but it's still better than the alternative with Spotify. This doesn't work on my MacBook but it's something.

0 1-Ghost over 5 years ago

I use the iTunes cable method and it works fantastically for me. I charge my watch at work connected to my laptop each Monday, so I do the upload/delete during that time. Would be nice to auto-delete the ones I've already listened to and mark them in iTunes as played, but that's probably asking too much.