Thanks Gwilym for your suggestion about Overcast. Iām a basic subscriber and have found this really useful to be able to listen to my lessons (even works in Airplane mode), without any fuss!
CPod team,
I see other user are also complaining about the same problem with the Chinese Pod app. So, is it a bug that you plan to fix? A legacy ransomware to force authentication every time oneās own content is accessed? Or nobody knows or cares as future iOS app development has been taken off the table?
Nobody cares.
Thatās the only answer
No, seriously, Iām thinking but it is just my personnal opinion, there is two major problem now:
1Ā°/ Lack of answer from the team on the forum. It seems they are gambling on roulette: who lose who have to answer on the forum. The problem is, still from my point of view, the community around something (a game, a serie or something else) is starting to be really important. thatās why there is community manager. And that is missing here. In order to keep calm people, to give some news etcā¦
2Ā°/ Lack of programmer for iOS. They already said currently there is no programmer and they are looking for one. I guess it is still not done. But itās starting to be really urgent 'cz this app is really bllsht.
I wonder if the app not working offline means that it is streaming content that I have already downloaded, and therefore counting against my telephone companyās data allowance each time I use the app, despite having downloaded it originally over WiFi.
Hi Leurne,
Sorry that youāre not completely happy with the app at the moment. Sadly it is still far from an ideal app. We decided to outsource it to a company but development is slow and not as high quality as we would like. We are currently looking for in-house iOS developers to take over full-time development and make it more stable. The Android app on the other hand has had a passionate in-house developer working on it over the last few months, and was a big fan of ChinesePod already, and the quality shows in the app. Sadly the same canāt be said for iOS.
If the app is not to your expectations, the best way to listen currently is using the RSS feed with a podcast player (for offline use, or using our responsive mobile website. If you would like to discuss some sort of refund or extension to your account, feel free to email me at gwilym@chinespeod.com
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Hi gwilym,
I do not want any refund because I f*cking enjoy to listen your podcast and honestly, I already try to look somewhere else and nothing was nice as chinesepod. At least some extension could be nice
But what I really would like is to have this information earlier: lot of people are complaining about the app, but Iām thinking it could be due to a lack of information. For example on the blog/on the forum or whatever. It could be really nice to know what is the objectif for the app, the next features , how the website will progress etcā¦
+1 Bump this thread. It looks nicer but the UI is unintuitive ā swipe left and right to select between levels? I do a lot of audio review.
The button on the lower right has a ālistā icon, but inside here is the way to hit Play on the audio?
How come I canāt queue up lessons?
Why donāt I have a unified feed?
Whatās up with the left side menu filtering?
How much feedback did the dev team actually get from real users about how useable is the App?
I have found the YepChinese app to be so much more functional. And free. I have spent thousand USD on Chinese pod for the past few years and I donāt bother to log in anymore for the past few months because itās just not adding value. I am seriously questioning renewing.
Can you shed some light on why you think in-house iOS developers will do a better job? Just to help us understand.
EASY! I can answer!
Because there is NO ios developers!
I understood that currently, there is only one android devā, but it seems quiet difficult for an android dev to make the same quality on ios (because for the android users, it seems ok).
So currently = nobody for ios.
But my point is : we already heard they were looking for a new dev (it was in january or february, I canāt remember exactly). So Iām bit worry they still not find him
wtf. Yepchinese is completely free, thatās strangeā¦ Iām trying it but until now, I had few bug on the website and the app
Iām a bit surprised that itās hard to find an iOS dev considering how large the platform is. Given that there is no dedicated iOS developer itās no wonder that the changes canāt be implement quickly. Iām on android and have to say that @Armel is doing an amazing job on the Android app. I have been helping test the new app from the beginning and whenever there is a bug or requested feature itās usually implemented in the next update.
Iām sorry to hear that iOS users are having so much trouble through
Ah, thatās right, my mistake. Thanks @GwilymJames for the correction, I got their names confused But yes, @hunter_robbert has been doing a great job on the android app.
App is USELESS.
AAARGHH
I have been using chinesepod on and off for years, this app is the worst so far. I just signed up for premium so I can do the vocab things on the app but it only works when connected to the Internet. I live in China so connecting to stable internet is a rare thing.
I tried downloading some of the lessons so I could listen to the lessons on the go but the button to then access downloaded lessons doesnāt work at all. Nor to any of the buttons on the menu screen. I have already done the re download the app to my phone, after deleting the two older versions I had from before.
why why why
Can the app god of Chinese pod please hear my prayers and make an app that allows me to listen to the lessons when I am not online?
Iām now back to what I was doing 4 or 5 years ago, downloading the audio to may laptop to then transfer to my iphone/ipod. Progress! Oh, I am paying more this timeā¦
Chinesepod demigods Iām sure you are working on a new version of the app with developers. Can you give us a timeline on how long this will take???
Hi, Thanks for the tip. Does ICatcher work off line?
Just bought Icatcher from app store. I can only find newbie podcasts. How do I find the other podcasts?
Hi Misty104, you might find these support articles helpful. I recommend you check your RSS feed settings first.
Hi Misty, If you want stable offline listening, I recommend using the RSS feed and using a podcast app like Icatcher (which I see youāve downloaded) or Overcast: http://support.chinesepod.com/hc/en-us/articles/207657553-ChinesePod-s-Recommended-Podcast-Player-for-iOS. I apologise on behalf of ChinesePod for the state of the current iOS app.
Gwilym, could you please explain about the Course Feed. How is it different from the lesson feed and how do you use it?