banjobacon
March 6th, 2011, 06:56 PM
I've been discouraged from following podcasts a few times because I always find something annoying with the podcast clients I've tried. At the moment, this is my problem. Does anyone know of a podcast client that has a solution for this?
I often don't listen to a podcast episode all the way through because I do not have time. When revisiting the podcast later, I don't know at what point I left off, and fast-forwarding through digital audio files isn't very intuitive. It's also easy to forget which episodes have not been listened to all the way though, as some podcast clients won't mark these episodes as new anymore.
This wouldn't be so bothersome if I wasn't aware of an existing solution for a similar problem. Netflix not only keeps track of what you've streamed, but also what progress you've made. If you only stream 20 minutes of a 2 hour movie, your recent activity will display a progress bar with this information. The default action is to resume where you left off, rather than starting from the beginning and finding where you left off, which would be difficult if you began watching the movie weeks ago.
This feature is probably not exclusive to Netflix, but so far I have not seen it in any of the podcast clients I have tried. Does anyone know of any that have this feature?
Thanks!
I often don't listen to a podcast episode all the way through because I do not have time. When revisiting the podcast later, I don't know at what point I left off, and fast-forwarding through digital audio files isn't very intuitive. It's also easy to forget which episodes have not been listened to all the way though, as some podcast clients won't mark these episodes as new anymore.
This wouldn't be so bothersome if I wasn't aware of an existing solution for a similar problem. Netflix not only keeps track of what you've streamed, but also what progress you've made. If you only stream 20 minutes of a 2 hour movie, your recent activity will display a progress bar with this information. The default action is to resume where you left off, rather than starting from the beginning and finding where you left off, which would be difficult if you began watching the movie weeks ago.
This feature is probably not exclusive to Netflix, but so far I have not seen it in any of the podcast clients I have tried. Does anyone know of any that have this feature?
Thanks!