hello I am Wanderer001 and this is actually a revisit of pocket casts it
is a pod catcher pod feed pod cast player that you can get for Android and
iOS I'm revisiting this app because recently
it has had a major redesign and that's kind of what I'm finding myself doing
lately is going back to some of my older apps that I really use and really enjoy
but have been upgraded and that's one of the reasons I tend to do hardware
instead of software software has a lot of updates Hardware not so much but
coming back to pocket cast this is my go-to podcast player period I've used
some free ones in the past but this one is one that I have kept the longest I
even paid for it because well you do have to pay for this
there is a 3.99 charge for this in the Google Play Store so around that up to
$4 but I assure you it is well worth your money so when we first launched the
app this is what we see this is a kind of grid format of all of the podcasts
that I am currently subscribed to again there are more you just have to scroll
down so from the main page here what you can do is you can come up here and press
the magnifying glass to run a search so you could search for a podcast directly
from this page if you wanted to hamburger button up here will allow you
to change the way this front page looks so badges you have off all unfinished
and only on latest episodes so what the badges are if you look in the corner of
some of my podcasts you will notice that there are numbers and those numbers and
those numbers indicate the amount of new or unlisten to podcasts
layout you saw the grid format can change further so again this is one of the reasons I like this app it's super
customizable same thing with sorting you can sort by podcast name episode release
date date and drag and drop I currently have it on drag and drop and the last
bit there is share podcast so again if you want to share your favorite podcast
with your friends that's how you would do it now the redesign mainly happens
with the fact that used to be that there was a sidebar that
you would have to pull to access a lot of these features right now you'll
notice that there's no sidebar and they're kind of all listed here at the
bottom I do have a podcast currently in play which is why I have this bar down
here now this is the mini bar that you see within the podcast app itself this
is your 30-second rewind play fast-forward and then this is your cue
I'll be getting into that a little later and then you have a little art for the
particular episodes those things too I'm going to start it really quickly
just to show you that in your in your notification shade you also get a mini
player that has the art as well and that's a really nice feature moving on
the bottom filters when you're first brought into filters if you don't have
this set to go into a specific one you are greeted with this new releases in
progress and starred these are think of them as quick links to get to specific
areas of the podcast app now you can add your own filter so you can do colors you
can do these icons here and this will allow you to set up your own little
quick start to a specific area so if I want to here is the one podcast that I'm
currently playing right now there's a lot of information going on here now
such as this is how you can play it this shows how far into the episode it is
you've got your episode title you've got this blue thing here which now means
it's part of a cued list and then you have this one which is downloaded to the
phone itself we're going to jump in to new releases just to kind of give you an
idea that it does do this grid format you can see several different icon types
over here like I said before this one is your play and shows you how far it is
into the episode this one also shows you if it has been downloaded to the phone
this little green check mark as we talked about before this one here means
it has not been downloaded to the phone because you don't necessarily have to
download these to the phone in order to listen to them you can stream them that
is an option that's left to you now I'm going to actually click on the cue so
you can kind of see what that looks like when you either open up the podcast that
you're listening to or select the cue you are brought to
a similar page so either I'm looking at the episode and if I if I click on the
episode art it will show me the name I can move it I can mark it I can go to
podcasts and if I go to that it will bring me into just the information for
that podcast and from here you can actually do some things just on the
individual podcast level so here you can see checkmark means automatically
downloads I can go into settings which will allow me to be notified when a new
podcast shows up automatically download it this particular episode I'd be not
automatically down download to my phone it can be added to up next automatically
it will also allow you to auto archive the episode playback effect meaning if I
wanted to just for this particular podcast now you could do this across the
platform but just for this particular podcast you can select your speed you
can select your trim silence and you can select your boost volume which is really
really good and then again we're gonna turn that off just so I don't forget you
have your skip so you can set that for how far into the episode you want it to
skip when it first starts the episode and then filters and last but not least
unsubscribe you also do have a notification area right there and again
the channel art that's it's just listed right there it's really cool and then
again clicking on it one more time within the podcast episode will allow
you to see information and liner notes liner notes if they give you for that
particular episode but we're gonna go back to our new releases and our cue
because from here you have options that you can do across the entire app which
is right here you can see setting a variable speed I currently have it set
for 1.7 if I want so I can increase that's a 1.8 it will trim silence
meaning if something like that happens you can cut that out so that you don't
have to put up with awkward pauses in your audio you can also volume boost
just like you could across the entire system going back this will allow you to
sleep so if you listen to podcast to go to bed this will allow you to turn off
the podcast after a certain amount of time is
you can also favorite in this case this podcast if I wanted to I could favorite
it and then in that filters area I would be able to go in and just see my
favorited podcast and again you can share this podcast and there are your
liner notes from the player area one of the more controversial changes that was
made to pocket cast was the ordering of shows one of the big things that the old
version could do was queuing and queuing in your own special way well they did
some things they people weren't happy including myself
they rectified it so it's not as big of an issue right now but what I'm going to
show you is if you are going to queue an item so like I said this little blue
icon indicates that something is in the queue so if I wanted to go down here and
queue all about Android if I drag it partially to the right I have these
options which will allow me to add in sequence where I want it in my queue
just swiping it to the right will add it to the queue and it will automatically
sort that by date of podcast not your specific ordering so that will add it to
the item above this will add it below the item so that is a useful feature
also swiping I'm gonna swipe that one swiping in the
opposite direction will actually allow you to delete that particular item from
your queue or your phone if it's on your phone those are one of the big things
that people were complaining about and I will admit I'm happy that they fixed it
because yeah that was it was it was a royal mess so again hamburger button the
corner will allow you to play all download all filter settings and delete
filters if you wanted discovery just that you can go through trending you can
go through whatever ground it is popular in the United States it's just a
discovery area it allows you to find other podcasts and again that search
area Discovery's got the same thing right up there now profile has some
sensitive information mainly the account that's up top it will also show you the
number of podcast the day's listened and the
days saved based on things that you've done
skipping trimming things of that nature so all stats allows you to see all of
your stats so here you can see just like I did my old video it shows you how much
time I've saved by skipping stuff also download stars and listening history so
if you ever wanted to know all the stuff that you listened to you now have
listening listening history in the corner there there's also a sprocket
which will I to get into more options I'm not showing it because again my
account name is right there and don't want that so here is where you can
customize further how the app functions now this is dark mode it does have a
light mode which is found in the functions now this area has not changed
too much so I'm not actually going to cover that if you want to see the
particulars of that area I'm going to link in the corner my previous video for
pocket cast which will also show you the web interface which at a extra fee will
allow you to sync your podcast between your phone and the web and watch them at
your leisure now again I said I went back to cover this because there were a
lot of things that they change mainly that queuing area
realistically after I got used to it I don't mind it as much as I did when it
first came out and it's that's how it is for most things but I'm very happy that
the developer of this listen to the criticism about the cue area a lot of
people myself included specifically got this app because we wanted to be able to
control our feed and how we listen to episodes I don't necessarily want to
listen to them sequentially as they come out I have a specific order that I
wanted and I'm happy that they fixed that and because of that I still highly
recommend pocket cast as a excellent podcast catcher player however you want
to word that so I have been Wanderer001 if you have any questions
or comments please feel free to leave them in the area below and as always
thanks for watching