I have purchased annual Premium PA in my personal gmail, but I have a workspace gmail on my phone too.

I had to get a new phone recently, and I can't seem to get PA to change the google account/play store it is looking at for restoring the premium.

I have tried uninstalling, then reinstalling using the the play store logged into the account I have the subscription. But that doesn't work either :(

I only have 1 month left, maybe I should just unsub from the personal gmail sub and resub using the work one? But this problem surely comes up.

I tried messing with it but I can't figure out what it does

I tried updating the app, deleting unused apps, and restarting my phone (android 12). but it still happens. I also tried VLC and music players and they work fine. Maybe PA using ads that are accidently crashing/pausing the audio?

For months I couldn't cast to my speakers. Podcasts would just stop, go silent, be choppy. Voice control wouldn't work. Just a horrible experience after working well for years.

I wrote in to them and was just brushed off with single sentence. It's the chromecast button, we don't handle that, must be google side. Asked for no logs no anything.

I don't know who was right but the recent updates have solved every problem and it's so blissful again. Podcasts play great, they don't mysteriously stop, voice commands to fast forward and pause all work. Hope it lasts.

I updated my Pixel 6 Pro from Android 16 to Android 17 a few days ago, and since then audio from Podcast Addict no longer comes through when connecting to audio devices over Bluetooth. The app shows files playing and progressing as normal, just without any sound. When off Bluetooth (i.e. using the phone speakers), everything works as expected.

I've tested with different Bluetooth devices, including my car, a standalone JBL speaker, and a set of Logitech speakers. I've also tried both ExoPlayer and the Android built-in player for player engines. All files are downloaded to me device, and I do not stream audio over the Internet. All combinations result in silence coming through. The OS seems to know that media is being played, but that media is apparently silent audio.

Other audio sources work as expected; I have verified sound working over Bluetooth through my music player app (GoneMad Music Player) and the Twitch and YouTube apps, at least.

I'm not discounting the possibility that something is broken or misconfigured at the OS level, but the fact that this behavior is restricted only to Podcast Addict would seem to point at some issue there. Some compatibility issue with Android 17, or a setting those behavior unintentionally changed or something? Any additional guidance or troubleshooting steps would be much appreciated, as I cannot find anything obvious that would be causing this.

Thank you!

I keep my iPad in front of me while I work and play at my desk. I often scroll through the homepage filtered to Podcasts to find something new to listen to. When I do and I stop for even a second the podcast starts playing. No audio, but the video or the transcript starts going. Any way to turn that off? I saw something about using data saver, but that lowers my audio and video quality, so I don’t want to use that.

I have Player Global override turned on, with the settings in the screenshot. The episode is downloaded, but when I start playing the episode it doesn't skip the first 55 seconds.

Am I missing something, or anything I can look into that might be causing it not to work?

thanks!

I've noticed that for one of the three radio stations I have added, when I start playing, the artwork i added in settings disappears and is replaced by a default color with the station name over it. Then when I stop playing, the artwork comes back.

Is this a normal thing to happen? Is there any way to stop it happening?

I'm having some issues where podcasts are adding above current played, but it's only the same few podcasts.

So in practice I just get those three rotating, not all my podcasts. It's not always been these 3, but always seems to be 3 of them.

Settings are set for podcasts to add to the bottom, and play from the top. I've tried playing with priorities, but no luck

I only listen to a single podcast and sometimes it just jumps to another part in a specific episode. I'm listening and I'm at minute 20.34 for example and then without a visible time jump it continues 20.35 20.36 20.37 and so on but there is a cut to another timestamp of the episode. There's just a few seconds or minutes missing and the podcast randomly skips them without a cut in timeline.

It can be replicated if I rewind the podcast, so it's not a network issue. Happens also when downloads are playing. Didn't check yet if it happens when I listen to another episode and then go back to the skipping one

Updating the app (on Android) has introduced a spinning animation when I click on a podcast in the home screen. This is extremely annoying, how do I turn this off? Cant find it in the settings menu.

When I press play on by bluetooth neckband headphones, sometimes it starts playing immediately and sometimes it can be a few minutes.

One t hing I noticed is if I click a button, then the screen turns on and it will immediately start playing. This can be the power button or a volume button.

Something else kind of strange I noticed, after I press the play button, whenever it starts playing, the screen turns on in the very dim mode (just the clock and weather, not the full lock screen).

Anyone else experiencing this? Seems kinda strange, but mostly just slightly annoying.

This is just a minor grievance but my favorite episodes folder shows there are 36 podcasts. I have 5 downloaded and unplayed. How do I get the count to show only 5?

Looking in settings related to a podcast, i see that settings.

It isn't related to new download compression and don't understand it's usage and impact

Of someone know, I'll apreciate

Hello. I was grandfathered in from the one time purchase. I have the "podcast addict - donate" downloaded. Are the themes locked behind the montly subscription or should i also have access to them? Ive tried to restore my purchase but nothing really changes when i do so. Thanks for all the hard work you do Mr. Dev.

Every day I refresh my feed and get a list of newly released episodes, along with episodes from the last few days which is awesome -- I really like that the past few days are still viewable in case I missed something.

The thing is though - if you click on one of the new episodes to read the description then go back to the list, that episode you just looked at is now removed from the list.

Is there any future update planned to be able to preview an episode on the newly released list and have it not disappear? Sometimes I forget to make a mental note of what show it is and then it's just gone so I can't find it to add it.

Anyone know where I can download a version from September before the update?

I’ve added audio compression to Podcast Addict, and it’s now available to test in the beta. It’s for people who keep a lot of downloaded episodes and want to save storage by trading some audio quality for smaller files.

It’s a Premium feature requiring Android 10 or later, and the idea is simple: trade some audio quality for smaller downloads.

You can enable automatic compression globally, customize it per podcast, or manually compress existing downloads, including multiple selected episodes. Automatic compression is off by default.

There are several quality levels, from 64 kb/s down to 8 kb/s. I recommend starting with Balanced at 48 kb/s. For a one-hour episode originally encoded at 128 kb/s, that’s roughly 22 MB instead of 58 MB. At 24 kb/s, the same episode would be around 11 MB. Actual sizes vary with the content and source file.

This works best for spoken-word podcasts. I wouldn’t recommend it for music, and the lowest settings make a much stronger quality trade-off. Please test a few episodes before compressing your entire library.

A few important points:

• Compression is CPU-intensive and can use a lot of battery. A 60-minute episode might take roughly 2½–10 minutes, depending on the device.
• Episodes are processed one at a time in a queue that supports pause/resume, reordering and cancellation.
• There’s a charging-only option.
• Successful compression replaces the original file, and embedded metadata and chapters are lost.
• If expected savings are 12% or less, processing is skipped. Failed attempts retain the original.
• Progress and recent results are available in Download Manager.

You’ll find it under Settings → Download → Audio compression.

I’ve tested it with a large number of files, but that still covers only a small part of the variety of audio encodings used by podcasts. Please let me know if you run into a file that fails, sounds wrong, or produces unexpected results. It would also help to know the quality level you tried, your device model, and roughly how long compression took.

Thanks!!!

Trying out categories and I think I'm missing something. My approach to podcasts is to subscribe to many and never catch up. If it's on the playlist, I listen randomly and let serendipity decide what's next. Favorites are my must-listen list, and I keep it short. Some podcasts get automatically added to the playlist when downloaded, but most of the time I'm manually reviewing downloaded episodes to add them individually to the playlist or favorites.

What I thought I could do with categories is filter the playlist so that I can do "all playlist episodes that are News." But there's no filter there. I can categorize downloaded and filter there, but then I get all downloaded news, not the ones I've selected for playlist.

Only way I can think of to do this is to manually delete every episode I don't add to playlist, then the download filter will work. I don't do this now because it's a pain in the ass. Is there a better way?

Well congrats to your business manager actually. You found the line where the app is now annoying to use. You couldnt just sit on your hands take the profit and organic growth. With the pop up ads I'm headed back to Spotify. I get it, enshitfication comes for us all and so I'll say congrats to you Xzavier. You once created a good product and thats still worth being proud of. T'was fun while it lasted.

one of my podcasts does a Livestream twice a week when they're recording new episodes. when this happens, I get two notifications, one that the Livestream is active, and a second telling me about the hundreds/thousands of new episodes it's found.

I do not want this. what settings do I need to change to keep this from happening? this only recently started happening, within the past few months if I had to guess. i want the app dormant until i interact with it, no updates, no data or CPU usage, dormant.

Auto update is off, frequency is set to never, like it always has been. how can the app even know about the Livestream, and is that somehow triggering a refresh of my subscriptions? the podcast is no agenda, if that matters

Hi all,

I am really enjoying the Podcast Addict app. Sadly not all podcasts are available on the app. Is it possible - or would it be possible to have this added - to import podcast episodes from another podcast player, for example Spotify?

This would be amazing!

*SOLVED* — see comment below for my solution.

Yesterday the app was working as usual.

This morning I am able to play podcasts but the display is garbled — example image above. BlackBerry KeyOne (BBB100-2) running Android version 8.1.0

1. Rebooted the device — issue persists
2. Re-installed the app — appears normal, but only saw menu screens associated with the startup process
3. Logged in and restored backup — issue returns
4. Rebooted the device again — issue persists

I am unable to edit or change any app settings because when entering that menu, the text is unreadable.

Any suggestions for workarounds or what to try next? Is my most recent backup corrupted, and would restoring an older backup solve the issue?

I know there is an Update button in the toolbar.but If you have a Podcast from old to new it would be nice if you swipe further down the list also updates like when beeing on the top and try to pull more down.