I think the biggest issue is, and I am not at all faulting anyone or saying they are wrong to feel this way, but people are so beholden to their tedious routine which they have cultivated over months and years of using this app that they idea of changing their workflow is overwhelming and seems like a ton of work. It might sound silly, but I feel much less stress and much more free by not having to worry about having multiple playlists to keep organized, feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of episodes I have in each playlist that I feel like I have to constantly chase catching up on, and I find myself actually listening to a wider variety of shows and enjoying myself more. At first, I hated the idea of not having playlists, but after using this new update for a while (on iOS) I actually understand that this is really a much easier flow than playlists. Do you really think casual users are going to take the time to learn all of the complicated new features in v7? What could be more simple?Īnd if you are going for casual users over power users this makes even less sense. Filters? 🤣 Do you really think most users prefer the complicated mess of this new filter system to the simplicity of 1) choosing a name for a playlist 2) simply multi-selecting episodes and placing them there 3) setting up the ability to have episodes automatically downloaded into specific playlists (something Podcast Republic allows). Could you imagine a music player that didn’t allow playlists? This simple notion goes all the way back to the analog mixtape.Īnd which wonderful new features do playlists conflict with. Is it possible that you’re counting people who never use the app as people who don’t use playlists? Maybe I’m wrong, but it just seems to me that custom playlists is such an intuitive feature for heavy listeners of media. Somehow I think your metrics on this are off, though, when you consider the comments here and the many, many 1 star reviews in the playstore.

Pocket casts playlist