Pocket Casts Now Lets You Create A Playlist Of Your Favorite Podcast Episodes 

Pocket Casts, nan podcast app owned by Tumblr’s genitor institution Automattic, launched a caller characteristic that lets you create podcast playlists, allowing you to shape your favourite episodes successful conscionable nan bid you like. You tin either create a playlist manually, aliases Pocket Casts tin automatically create 1 for you. 

Playlists are designed to amended personalize nan listening acquisition for users arsenic Pocket Casts seeks to turn its paid personification guidelines and compete pinch larger platforms. Currently, it has 60,000 subscribers, while Spotify has 281 million.

The caller characteristic makes it easy to curate collections based connected circumstantial topics and themes, aliases could beryllium utilized to perceive your favourite podcast impermanent featured crossed different shows. It’s besides adjuvant for preparing a database of episodes to bask while connected a agelong formation aliases during your regular commute. 

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To get started creating a manual playlist, navigate to nan Playlists tab connected nan main surface and prime nan “+” icon connected a mobile instrumentality aliases “New playlist” connected nan web version. From there, you tin browse done your favourite podcasts and handpick nan episodes that you want to see successful your personalized playlist.

For those who for illustration a much automated approach, Pocket Casts offers Smart Playlists. By selecting nan “Smart rules” button, you tin create civilization rules that automatically stitchery episodes based connected circumstantial criteria. 

For example, if you only want to perceive to shorter episodes, you tin group a norm to only see shows nether 25 minutes, aliases select by unplayed aliases downloaded content. This characteristic is particularly useful if you person a engaged schedule and want to make nan astir of your free time.

Currently, nan Playlist characteristic is disposable connected nan web type and desktop apps, pinch a rollout for Android users already underway. The characteristic is arriving connected iOS devices soon. 

The update follows Pocket Casts’ determination to make its web subordinate free for users, further positioning itself arsenic a beardown competitor successful nan podcasting abstraction against awesome platforms that support their contented down paywalls.