I’d rather not pay for Runcasts
I’d rather not pay for Runcasts
What I do is this (on PC) - this works really well:
Setup
I used Garmin Express and I found it to be quick and painless. Here's my workflow:
Mac with iTunes as my podcast manager. I fire it up and let it download the latest for about 20 min or so. I usually…
There is no, easy, way, and if there is, it’s 100% not Spotify. It can take 10 minutes to get a single podcast over to the watch with all the hoops you have to jump. And you have to have a paid subscription…
I believe the easiest way is to manage podcasts though a playlist in Spotify. From your phone you can add whatever episodes you want to a "Garmin podcasts" playlist, and afterwards update downloads on your Spotify app on the watch. This is still not 100% perfect as it requires the pre-adding from the phone, but it's way easier and faster than adding and deleting episodes 1 by 1 through the Spotify app on the watch.
What I do is this (on PC) - this works really well:
Setup
Usage
I really wish Garmin would
This was exactly the info i needed. Thank you so much. I just set up MusicBe and it wasn't hard to get it syncing at all.
Glad you like it. I find it works really well.
Here, 1 month even later, I have still heard nothing from Garmin about how podcasts are handled on the watch wrt episode numbers, etc.
Hello, how do you get it to initiate a download? I have a Mac running Catalina, using the Podcast app. I have the watch plugged in, and it shows "Podcasts" both on my Fenix and my Mac, but can't transfer over. Thanks!
Use the Garmin Express app on the mac. Once you have your podcasts downloaded in iTunes, you can select which ones to sync in Garmin Express.
I tried that one and whilst it improves the syncing situation it creates another problem. For whatever reason Spotify in Garmin treats everything on a playlist as music, that means you don't get the rewind/skipping 15 seconds controls and worst, it won't remember where you left it, which means you better listen to that whole 1+ hour episode on one go or you'll have to listen to the whole thing again next time, no way to get to where you were. The only way Spotify treats it as a podcast episode is to painfully and manually download it as such, if you add it to a playlist, even Spotify's own automatic podcast playlist, it'll be treated as music on the watch app.
Thanks, 1-Ghost, but I think my problem is that I'm using Catalina, which removed iTunes and has the separate Podcast app. I'm using Express - but it shows "iTunes Library" which doesn't exist.
Update.....tried an old Mac running El Capitan and it worked as you described. Looks like it's not compatible with Catalina.
What I just recently found out is the way to make to work to sync in bw Garmin Express and Podcasts app.
The later has "Stations" (aka playlists for podcast) that anyone could add. Those got updated in Garmin Express hence there is a smooth way to sync podcasts you like.