I’ve been listening to lots of audio talks on the BSWA website. I can stream them directly from the BSWA site or via the Podbean app.
Listening to audio from the BSWA site has its limitations, like any pause causes the talk to start over and not being able to save. If there’s a YouTube alternative, I choose that option but that’s not always available.
I have tremendous trouble with the Podbean app keeping my place, saving talks or series, talks disappearing for no reason I can figure out and if I navigate off of the talk, I can never find it again.
Does anyone have any suggestions or are there alternate ways of listening to these talks?
Hi, I’m currently using Apple platforms, so I use the Apple ‘Podcasts’ app to listen to podcasts (including BSWA). Works well.
If you’re not on Apple platforms, or if you prefer, you could use Spotify for podcasts, which also works well. The BSWA podcast is available on Spotify, as is the Deeper Dhamma podcast, along with other Buddhist podcasts. Spotify keeps the place in the podcast, should you close and then re-open the app. I use Spotify only on desktop however, as I don’t have a paid subscription and I think you need one in order to listen to your choice of audio on their mobile app.
I only use podbean to download the episodes. I’m not a big fan of these apps, because you have to use the app (from a phone) in order to listen to the content. But I’ve found that if I access the podbean website from a laptop or PC, it allows me to download the episode as an MP3 file and I can listen to it using a media player app and it ‘remembers’ my time in the recording, during the session.
I’ve been listening to the BSWA rains retreats talks which Musiko has generously curated and made available here, and I like how I can download the individual MP3 files and listen to them without using a podcast app. I hope there’s something there
It has the BSWA Podcast and the Deeper Dhamma podcast in its built-in search and if there are any podbean casts you can’t find on the app, you can copy the RSS url from the podbean website and “add a podcast by url” in the PR app.
Thanks to all for your suggestions! I’ve been downloading the talks into Apple Music (formerly iTunes) and moving them into playlists. This seems like the best option for the way I listen to Dhamma talks. I don’t save podcasts like this, so it didn’t occur to me. Duh!
I normally convert youtube dhamma talks to mp3 and save them as offline files in my google drive. But I’m guessing others here have got more tech-savvy answers!
