You can find our list of best CarPlay apps here, and our latest look at Apple’s CarPlay feature in iOS 10 here. Pocket Casts joins a list of other podcast players to work with CarPlay including Apple’s Podcasts app, Overcast, and Downcast. Pocket Casts 6.1 also includes new sorting options for iPad users.

Not a bad way to listen to 9to5Mac’s Happy Hour podcast in the car. Prior to CarPlay support, the app was limited to a simple playback screen and not episode sorting. This means you can use Pocket Casts on your iPhone to manage your subscriptions and playback, then connect your iPhone to your car and continue controlling the experience from your car’s screen. Google Podcasts is the best way to manually subscribe to a podcast feed on your Android device (it also works on the iPhone).A few weeks ago Shifty Jelly updated its Pocket Casts podcast player for iPhone to version 6.0 with a major overhaul including a new dark mode, playback features, and multitasking, and now Pocket Casts 6.1 is out with support for Apple’s CarPlay infotainment feature.

How to add an RSS feed in Google Podcasts (Android & iOS) You can vote on this feature request here. This is evidenced by the fact that there are some “podcasts” which can only be subscribed to on Spotify. I have a feeling that Spotify wants to exercise complete control over “podcasts” that are available on its platform. I am inclined to think that Spotify specifically doesn’t want to allow this because it would allow people to listen to podcasts that Spotify doesn’t have a relationship with.

You copy a podcast url from a podcast and most (if not all) podcast apps will let you subscribe to the podcast with that url. It’s such a basic feature that it is mind blowing that Spotify doesn’t have it already. 'Please let me add a podcast to Spotify by URL/RSS feed for Patreon and other private streams.'Īdding a podcast by URL is a basic feature of any podcast app. This feature has been requested numerous times on their forums: Spotify doesn't allow you to manually add an RSS feed URL to their podcast player.

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