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Honestly I always thought the way Apple podcast downloads worked was weird. I never subscribed because it takes like a week for your phone to be completely full of storage space from all the episodes. I just download the ones I want to listen to. And I haven’t used Apple’s app for a while because it was always so buggy.

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I like a certain number of automated downloads because it's convenient. I like the way Overcast does it where I can change the settings for each individual podcast how many episodes it automatically downloads. If it's a podcast I like to binge listen to, I'll allow it to download up to 10 episodes. If it's a podcast where I pick and choose one or two to listen to, then I let it only download 3 to 5.

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Interesting. I would love to somehow gather different people's podcasting habits. Mine is pretty weird - I basically download a month at a time individually selecting each episode, but now I'm perpetually a couple of months behind (I just started downloading November's episodes). Some podcasts I download every episode, like Blocked and Reported, others I'm much more selective. I also use Overcast. Maybe I will throw up a poll on Twitter.

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I use Spotify to listen to my podcasts, because of that storage issue and it just made sense for Spotify to be the place for all my listening habits including music.

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That's interesting. Mine would often lose my place in my podcast, which really sucks for multi-hour long podcasts, and it was annoying to switch from music to podcasts which I do frequently. I would have liked a separate podcast tab personally, if not a separate app. Too bad because I would have liked to have everything in one spot!

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