iOS 13 media player, good with podcasts, with full-screen controls?
March 3, 2020 7:17 AM Subscribe
Is there a media player for iOS 13 that works well with podcasts and audiobooks - ideally with huge or full screen controls for pause and play that you can use without looking at the iPhone?
99% of my iPhone listening is podcasts and audiobooks. I manage my podcasts on my Mac - I hoard podcasts, and I have literally tens of thousands of them, so typical podcast apps are NOT useful for me. I store all my podcasts on the Mac and drag them over to the iPhone, in playlists, when I want to listen to them.
I do a lot of listening while I'm walking, so the LeechTunes-style control, where I can tap anywhere on the screen to pause or play, without having to look at the screen, is ideal.
I used to love CarTunes and LeechTunes, but CarTunes doesn't work in iOS 13, and in LeechTunes in iOS 13, when I try to play a podcast or audiobook, it plays a random song from my music library instead.
I AM able to select and play podcasts and audiobooks from other players, including Stezza and Ecoute, but I don't like their controls. If I start playing a podcast from Stezza or Ecoute and then switch over to Leechtunes, it's playing and displaying the right thing and I can use the nice full-screen controls I want. But it's cumbersome to have to use one player to choose my listening and another for the controls.
Is there a media player for iOS 13 that has nice don't-have-to-look-at-the-screen controls, that works well with podcasts and audiobooks?
Thanks!
99% of my iPhone listening is podcasts and audiobooks. I manage my podcasts on my Mac - I hoard podcasts, and I have literally tens of thousands of them, so typical podcast apps are NOT useful for me. I store all my podcasts on the Mac and drag them over to the iPhone, in playlists, when I want to listen to them.
I do a lot of listening while I'm walking, so the LeechTunes-style control, where I can tap anywhere on the screen to pause or play, without having to look at the screen, is ideal.
I used to love CarTunes and LeechTunes, but CarTunes doesn't work in iOS 13, and in LeechTunes in iOS 13, when I try to play a podcast or audiobook, it plays a random song from my music library instead.
I AM able to select and play podcasts and audiobooks from other players, including Stezza and Ecoute, but I don't like their controls. If I start playing a podcast from Stezza or Ecoute and then switch over to Leechtunes, it's playing and displaying the right thing and I can use the nice full-screen controls I want. But it's cumbersome to have to use one player to choose my listening and another for the controls.
Is there a media player for iOS 13 that has nice don't-have-to-look-at-the-screen controls, that works well with podcasts and audiobooks?
Thanks!
Bookmobile is my recommendation and it has several options for controls. There is a trial period so you don't have to buy it to see if the controls work for you.
posted by soelo at 7:32 AM on March 3, 2020
posted by soelo at 7:32 AM on March 3, 2020
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