Issues with new Podcasts application

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Issues with new Podcasts application

I've got a few major frustrations with the new Podcasts application compared to the existing functionality.

1. It doesn't remember the speed setting - every new podcast it plays (even a new episode in the same podcast feed) sees the speed revert to normal. I listen to 99% of my podcasts at "2x" faster speed. This is a major pain and means having to click in a handful of times just to set the preference again. Ideally I'd love so you can set the speed on a per podcast basis, but I'll live with it just remembering the speed that was being used.

2. Using the headphone button to pause and then unpause sees the "Music" program start back up, and not the Podcasts application that you are listening to.

3. How do you get it to remove listened to podcasts? I don't want to continue to see them once they are played.

Thanks

Greg

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jun 28, 2012 2:49 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 28, 2012 5:16 PM in response to Greg_Priestley

Add to this, podcasts that were played randomly show up as unplayed. Some are ones I listened to today, others were listened to weeks or months ago and never downloaded onto this app. I have all podcasts to only keep unplayed episodes.

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Answer 2

Oct 28, 2012 7:28 PM in response to Greg_Priestley

For me, the situation is opposite: All podcasts start at 2x speed, but I prefer 1x.

My recollection is that the first time I explored the podcast functionality in iOS6, the podcast played at 1x and I discovered the 2x ability and checked it out. Since then, the speed always starts at 2x and I have been searching how to get things back to how I thought they were, namely, a default at 1x.

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Answer 3

Rich4rd

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Oct 29, 2012 12:50 AM in response to Sharon Faulk

This is really bugging me too. The podcast app hasn't got that many tasks, but one major one of them is reminding which episode is played and which not. If this isn't working properly, I would say: mission failed!

today I noticed that with various podcasts over 100 ep. were marked unplayed, while last week I set them all to played (again) because I just wanted to start over.

Anyone else having this issue? Or maybe someone knows a solution?

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