smarterPod: Simple and Smart Podcast Player

Listen to podcasts in the background of Chrome! Sync content across computers, manage your feeds, save progress, get new episodes!

What is smarterPod: Simple and Smart Podcast Player?

smarterPod: Simple and Smart Podcast Player is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to listen to podcasts and manage your feeds in the background of your browser. It's an Angular.js-based extension that provides features like Chrome notifications upon title change, metadata retrieval, and Google Storage Sync capability for your partially listened episodes. One of its standout features is that it updates your feeds and syncs content across different computers every 15 minutes, ensuring that you always have the most updated content. During its Beta stage, smarterPod plans on adding more features such as custom feed retrieval. It needs permissions for sending requests for podcast feed data and Google Sync must be enabled for proper operation.

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By: Steve M. Romain

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Users: 4,000+

Rating: 3.07 (28)

Version: 0.3.0.2 (Last updated: 2017-11-28)

Creation date: 2017-11-27

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

storage
notifications
background
http://*/
https://*/

Size: 11.56M

Ranking

# 15991 ▼ 49

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#1026 in News & Weather ▼ 4

#8 in custom feed keyword 36 ▼ 1

#11 in steve keyword 2

#29 in flash player keyword 58

#35 in smart keyword 43 ▲ 1

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Extension summary

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BETA VERSION FOR COURAGEOUS TESTERS!

New in version 0.3, you can search on Apple's iTunes Podcast database for your favorite podcasts!

smarterPod is a Angular.js based Google Chrome extension for listening to podcasts in the background of your browser, with feed management capabilities, Chrome notifications on title change, metadata retrieval as well as Google Storage Sync capability for your partially listened episodes and current playlists, regardless of which computer you're on. smarterPod aims to be the most straightforward way to listen to podcasts in your browser without the need for extra tabs, heavy Flash player clients or external application.

smarterPod updates your feeds and syncs every 15 minutes, ensuring that you have the most updated content and saved episodes on every computer you use at all times.

Right now, smarterPod is in Beta, with some awesome new features planned in the pipeline, including custom feed retrieval (download X episodes of this feed on every update). If there is something you would like to see, let us know! This is the first public version of this project and I hope to add new features, improve the application and work with it more over the coming months!

Also, there is currently a list of bugs on GitHub: https://github.com/smromain/smarterPod. If you encounter any bugs, please feel free to either submit on Github, through Chrome Web Store's User Feedback feature or via email (using my email address in the app). Thanks!

User reviews

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Pros

Works well for basic podcast listening
Simple and easy-to-use interface
Ability to sync podcasts across different computers
Helpful support from the developer
Easy to set up and running quickly

Cons

Inconvenient to access older episodes
Confusing interface with unclear instructions
Unresponsive at times and has technical issues
Difficulty adding new podcasts
Not intuitive to use for first-time users

Most mentioned

Inability to play old episodes easily
Complexity and lack of proper guidance
Issues with podcast addition and management
Need for a pop-out player feature
Positive feedback on the developer's support

Recent reviews

So far so good. Been using it for 1 day. I would love a little pop-out player like Google Music has. I like to stick it in the corner of my screen while I'm working so I can always hit the play/pause button easily. Also hotkeys would be nice.