1. Google Listen was terrible. It was ok when it was first released, but now that other podcatchers are out there, it's just terrible. You should use something else. 2. Why would Listen stop working? It's checking RSS feeds and then downloading an MP3 if necessary.
1. Google Listen was terrible. It was ok when it was first released, but now that other podcatchers are out there, it's just terrible. You should use something else. 2. Why would Listen stop working? It's checking RSS feeds and then downloading an MP3 if necessary.
It used Google Reader to maintain its feed list. I use Pocketcasts mostly but I pulled Listen down just to use it one last time. I don't think you can still find Listen in the Play Store but if you got it before it's in your list of apps.
1. Google Listen was terrible. It was ok when it was first released, but now that other podcatchers are out there, it's just terrible. You should use something else. 2. Why would Listen stop working? It's checking RSS feeds and then downloading an MP3 if necessary.
It used Google Reader to maintain its feed list. I use Pocketcasts mostly but I pulled Listen down just to use it one last time. I don't think you can still find Listen in the Play Store but if you got it before it's in your list of apps.
Apparently InoReader is the new good reader to use.
I think I like this the best out of all the ones I have tried so far. I still don't see how all of these free ones are going to make any money though. So I wonder just how long they will last.
Nope. Time for ritual suicide. Old Reader was a terrible alternative to Google Reader, but it was better than the others. Regressing to a point where we have to subscribe to newsletters is not a sensible thing to do.
Yeah, based on a few places online showing people starting to lose it at the beginning of the week that seems to be that case. Hopefully the update to a new type of subscription feed at some point since the current one is shit.
The old one was a nice simple grid of all of your subscriptions, while the new one you have to scroll forever and it just always seems like you're missing something, in my experience.
You are missing stuff if you are referencing the box on the left for the subscription feed. Organize it alphabetically and scroll to the bottom to get an idea of how much. I have a ton of subscription from smaller people who post less often so only a bit more than half of my subscriptions show there. I have to go to the manage subscriptions area in order to see them all now.
What's wrong with the current one? I'm not being contrarian, I just never used the one you guys are talking about.
The old one had a simpler grid of all your subscriptions as well as showing their most recent videos back to a certain point on the right when selected rather than going to the channels how it does now. It made it easier to find your subscriptions and to see the all of the videos you needed to catch up on rather than having to go to their channel and select the video option to seem them. That is not to say the old one was perfect as it did not show what videos you had already viewed so if it had been a while since watching that channel you would have had to figure out where you left off.
You people have not realized yet that Youtube is going to be folded into G+ within the next year or so. It makes absolutely no sense for Google to operate two large scale social networks at the same time and sucking in the Youtubers would give G+ some chance of success.
You people have not realized yet that Youtube is going to be folded into G+ within the next year or so. It makes absolutely no sense for Google to operate two large scale social networks at the same time and sucking in the Youtubers would give G+ some chance of success.
Was this officially announced, or are you just speculating? I did three web searches on that and found nothing.
Youtube has too big of a name to be completely folded into G+. There will probably be a lot more integration between the two, like how they try to get you to use your real name as your Youtube username, but I doubt it will just become another G+ feature.
How so? There are 4 different view settings they have to offer:
1. Title Only (Google Reader View) 2. Magazine View 3. Cards View 4. Full Article View
I prefer the Full Article View.
Not anymore, at least for the mobile app which is the one I use most often. Do any mobile readers let you view the full article without having to go the the webpage the article is hosted on?
Not anymore, at least for the mobile app which is the one I use most often. Do any mobile readers let you view the full article without having to go the the webpage the article is hosted on?
Reeder at least supports a couple of page parsers if that's what you mean. On the iPad you just "unpinch" and boom, full article instantly there.
Facetious, but containing a kernel of truth. No one who believes in the corporate "Do no evil" motto would have OK'd a cross promotion with Nestle.
I would bet that if you asked a random Google employee today what the significance of "Do no evil", chances are they wouldn't know what you are talking about. It is simply an aspect of Google's corporate identity that has dissapeared similar to the 20% time.
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2. Why would Listen stop working? It's checking RSS feeds and then downloading an MP3 if necessary.
The simple fix used to be to add my_subscriptions to the end of the URL, but now it's gone forever.
Oh, and video responses are going away.
I would bet that if you asked a random Google employee today what the significance of "Do no evil", chances are they wouldn't know what you are talking about. It is simply an aspect of Google's corporate identity that has dissapeared similar to the 20% time.