This means an elegant interface, cloud sync, and full control, all without dumbing things down. To do so sustainably, we believe a recurring subscription model is the way to go.
Server and development costs are substantial, so a one-time "unlock" fee is a false economy and simply means upgrades will at some time grind to a halt as the burden of maintaining service for existing users, who are no longer paying, would overwhelm efforts to keep improving the app. By making the subscription cloud-based, we can also give members the best experience on all supported platforms, while still continuing to evolve the free app.
We have released our iPhone app , meaning users can seamlessly switch between all three platforms, and all future platforms, without paying a new fee each time. Longer term, we also aim to work with publishers to bring premium content to members. In doing so, we can also use these plans to help fund publishers in producing more excellent content.
The plan is much more than the typical "pay to remove ads" plan. We've invested big time in a bag of genuinely useful features, and we'll continue to do so. We know these are genuinely useful because the user community has been asking for these features since day 1. We rolled up our sleeves and built them for you, and we think they are worth the price for anyone who uses the app regularly.
Premium members - offer cloud-synced play history, custom themes, Space Saver audio compression, playlists, bookmarks, and much more. They also include cloud-intensive features targeted at people who take their podcasts more seriously - automatically create personal backups of all audio in your playlists, search full show notes within your subscriptions and playlists, and get priority feed updates courtesy of our fetch servers typically within 15 minutes for most of your subscriptions.
You can get full details and screenshots within the app, from the "Upgrade" option in Settings. First, our primary aim here is to fund ongoing service and development. That said, this is a cloud-synced app with a support team, meaning that all users - paying or not - impose an incremental cost.
To help cover that cost, we do serve banner advertising. We'll aim to do it unobtrusively. Premium plans will remove those ads. The FAQ has always indicated we would consider advertising if we can do it unobtrusively. We're proud to receive regular reviews indicating the app is their favorite app on their phone, and we'll continue to make it great for everyone.
That's part of our goal to open up podcasting and make it as accessible as possible, no matter what platform you're on. As a regular user, your subscriptions, starred topics, subscription categories and Play Later list are synced in the cloud.
When you upgrade to premium, the following data will be cloud-synced as well:. That means if you play an episode on phone 1 and it's also on phone 2, the file will indeed be deleted from phone 2 according to your download limit and "auto-delete played episodes" settings. It would be just as if you had played it on phone 2. Essentially, you will always have the same items offline on both phones, assuming they both have the same settings, which is of course up to you.
This is generally desired behavior. You can still choose to keep an episode permanently on your device with a manual download. Also, premium plans introduce a better option for permanent downloads.
There are now custom playlists and they come with their own download limit. For example, you could make a "besties" playlist with a download limit of to keep all your favorites offline, even if they're played. The paid premium plan is a way for enthusiasts to support the platform.
There are various perks offered in the premium plan, such as human recommendations for topics you're interested in, higher priority support, and insider access to new features.
Once you select any of the free trial options, you will see a pop-up which includes the following information:. Should you change your mind, please take note that cancellation of premium membership should be done within the trial period.
Once cancellation is done, you may still continue to enjoy listening to your favorite podcasts with Player FM under a free version. This issue is usually caused by a delay in the processing of your payment. The app should automatically verify your premium membership when you do this.
Please note that your premium membership is linked to a particular Player FM account, thus it is important to log in to the correct account so you can enjoy the app's premium features and avoid encountering issues on premium plan verification. If you upgraded via our Android or iOS app, you may cancel your premium membership yourself.
Please refer to the links below for your reference:. Meanwhile, if you upgraded on our web app, you will need to contact us through the e-mail address you used when you purchased your premium membership. Please ensure to confirm this in your message, and although it's not compulsory, we'd also appreciate if you can let us know your reason for cancelling. We'll cancel your membership once we receive your confirmation. Please note that when your premium membership is cancelled, you'll lose all premium features, which include the following:.
You'll also of course no longer have access to features such as play history on the web app, premium themes and personal search. The premium "no ads" feature does remove visual promos and banner ads from the app. But if you're referring to audio ads you hear in episode recordings, we'd love to remove them for you if we could, however it's something we have no control over and are injected by the publishers.
If you upgraded via our Android app, you may update your payment method on Google Play. As to upgrades made on our iOS app, you may update your billing info in your device's Settings. After which, access [Change credit card or upgrade]. For subscription using Android app, available payment methods vary by country. For subscription using your iOS device, you may check this link to see if your country includes Paypal as an accepted payment method.
As for subscribing to premium plan via the web, unfortunately we don't process payments using Paypal. There are pages on our web app that are auto-generated based on a certain algorithm.
We can't manually feature your podcast in these pages. But as a tip, make sure your own website is linked to Player FM as the way shows are featured there is partly based on subscriber counts and plays. Please also check if your feed includes correct keywords or tags.
Meanwhile, there are other pages where we can manually feature a podcast. If you think your own podcast deserves a spot in one of these pages, feel free to mail us at support player. Changes made will shortly propagate not only on Player FM, as well as in other podcast directories where your show is indexed. Oops, sorry about that! In case we got the wrong feed or your podcast has a new feed now, do contact us at support player. We're not interested in declaring a laundry list of permissions.
Each new permission we add requires a careful cost-benefit analysis to ensure it genuinely adds value to your experience and it will only be used for the stated purpose. For Android 6. Some are added on demand. For earlier versions of Android, we are only able to request permissions upfront. Below are details on the permissions the app is using. Player FM only retrieves the user's e-mail address and doesn't need any other contact information aside from that.
Furthermore, when you log in with Google for the first time, you can opt to deny accessing this other information e. We added this permission when we added the much-requested setting to keep playing during notification sounds and navigation directions.
Enabling that setting is great, but unfortunately it means playback continues during a phone call too. So we have to request this permission in order to detect when phone calls start and end. Here's a programming reference about this permission: "This is why apps like Pandora, Spotify, etc need the permission - so they can mute themselves when you get a call.
This is necessary to stop playback during phone calls, for users who have added the setting to keep playing during notifications and navigation commands. Run at startup - Running in the background after your phone boots ensures your shows can be downloaded and ready for you to play anytime.
Pair with Bluetooth devices - Play on Bluetooth headphones and speakers. Full network access - Download and stream podcasts. Prevent device from sleeping - Keep playback going. The app's language is determined from your device's settings the OS language settings, not Player FM , as long as we support it.
Nevertheless, you may change it i. If you have an Android phone or variant which runs Android apps, e. Kindle Fire and some BlackBerry models , you can install. These are the only official sources; we can't verify the reliability of security of APKs found anywhere else. The app isn't listed in countries where user feedback indicated it's not up to local users' expectations. We will probably add it back once the app has been localised. Meantime, you can install the app from other sources.
We don't provide older Player FM versions anymore, especially for Android versions that we no longer support. This is because the older versions are not well-maintained and may be buggy when used. In case you are trying to uninstall and reinstall, you might want to first try just logging out and logging back in again. That should make the app like new. If you want to delete the app altogether, it goes the same way you delete any app on your device.
The simplest way is to long-press the app's icon and drag it to the [App Info] label found at the top of the screen. After which, confirm to uninstall.
Please note that the way of uninstalling an app may differ per device or OS. We love podcasts for their ability to work offline, and Player FM has two main download features:. Watch a video demo. Anytime an episode grabs your interest, we suggest you add it to your Play Later list. It's a convenient way to build up an offline-ready playlist and also serves as a kind of bookmarking capability. While Player FM has a traditional download action "Download Now" for the sake of familiarity, we would advise most users to use Play Later instead, for the following reasons:.
In case you want to keep an episode on your device permanently, you can use the "Download Now" action since Play Later auto-deletes from the device as it gets full. But aside from that, there's really no good reason to use it.
Open the series detail screen, press the gear icon to open series settings, and there you can set the download limit to zero. You need per-series downloading enabled to set a limit. Only shows you explicitly choose, by adding them to Play Later or manually downloading from the episode menu , will be downloaded.
You can monitor download progress both subscription and Play Later episodes on the Downloads screen. All manual downloads and Play Later items are prioritized over episodes from your subscriptions. As to your subscriptions, the default download order for all subscribed series is newest first. This can be changed by accessing the series detail screen, then tapping on the gear icon to open the series settings. The Android Wear app doesn't yet download episodes to your watch.
We think it's a cool possibility to stream podcasts from your watch! Storage has been limited on most devices, which makes them more suitable for music than podcasts at present. Download errors have various causes, and the app indicates this if you access the episode's detail screen.
Usually, such errors happen because the publisher's server is down, though it might also be due to a connection error. Sometimes, it occurs if you're connected to wi-fi e. Another possible cause would be that the episode file has been taken down or moved to another location by the publisher. Player FM will normally retry downloading periodically and will also update episode URLs from the publisher's feed, in case they have changed. Meanwhile, storage problems may also result to download errors.
Thus, please check if you have sufficient storage space, or ensure your SD card is properly mounted in case you're using it for storing your downloads. If you've determined downloading should work fine now, there's a [Re-download] option on the episode detail screen that you can use to try downloading the episode again.
Should the issue persist, please feel free to tap on [Contact us] so we can further investigate. Can I start downloading on a fixed schedule, e. Meanwhile, when you upgrade to premium, you'll be able to set more specific sync schedules. For advanced users, you may consider using the Android intents we support for sync and download control, with a third-party app like Tasker.
You might have some wi-fi networks with limited bandwidth, such as your workplace or a mobile wi-fi hotspot served from another phone. In that case, you might want to "blacklist" the network on Player FM. While the app doesn't support this directly, you may configure it through your Android device's settings, as follows. Meanwhile, when you upgrade to any of our premium memberships, we've made the blacklisting or even whitelisting of wi-fi networks easier for you as this can now be configured directly in the app's download settings.
Yes, you can. You may also want to also disable [Auto-delete played episodes] if you want to keep the played episode offline. For devices with Android version 4. For Android version 4. This is because Android introduced security constraints that prevent apps from writing to any folder.
Yes, the default download order is newest first, plus three more options namely; Newest un-played, Oldest and Oldest un-played. To change the download order of a subscribed series, open its detail screen, tap on the gear icon and press the "Download order" option. I want to support my favorite podcast. We index podcast shows and don't produce them ourselves.
We stream directly from the publisher's server, hence your listen count still goes to that server. The publisher gets full stats and control for every regular play and download, same as with any traditional podcast app. Open the Shows screen, then access the "All" tab. After which, tap on the 3-dot menu beside "All" and select "Switch to episode list view". It shows you latest episodes from all your subscriptions mixed together.
Alternatively, you may switch to episode list view by simply tapping on the "Shows" icon on the bottom navigation panel. We are currently in the experimental stage of supporting premium feeds. Should you want to import one, please log in on our web app and use this import tool. In case you encounter any issues, please let us know via support player. During the initial setup, the app recommended popular podcasts to you based on your chosen topics, and that there's an option to either add them as your subscriptions or remove them.
The app also asked if you prefer to enable auto-download for your subscriptions. It's possible you overlooked these options. Nonetheless, don't worry! You can always unsubscribe from those podcasts by accessing them from the Shows screen, and tapping on the round [Unsubscribe] button.
At the same time, it auto-deletes episodes that are no longer within the specified limit. For instance, if you set a limit of 10, the app would download the top 10 latest episodes. If there are incoming 2 new episodes, these will be part of the latest 10 and will be downloaded, while the previous 9th and 10th latest episodes will be deleted. In this case, once you've finished listening to an episode or marked it as played, the app auto-deletes it.
Meanwhile, should you want to manually delete an episode right away, there is a [Delete] option on the episode overflow menu 3-dot icon found below each episode title. However, we don't generally recommend it as the storage will soon be occupied again when new episodes come in. It's easier to just set limits and relax. Let the app manage storage for you.
Every time you subscribe to a series, the app suggests categories you may consider creating to better organize your subscriptions. You may also create your own categories apart from the ones being suggested. Furthermore, you can place a particular subscribed series to more than one category.
Should you want to edit the categories of a series, simply tap on the gear icon found on its detail screen. YouTube has many series worth listening to, but we have chosen to avoid integrating YouTube subscriptions as the YouTube app itself handles that task well. If we added support, we'd have to keep it up to date with whatever new features YouTube adds in the future as well as maintain it against any arbitrary changes YouTube happens to make.
We'd rather focus on features that are core to the podcasting experience, such as play history syncing, improved recommendations, and keeping up with latest Android features and hardware.
When playback stops, it's usually because you are streaming and you've recently gone offline or the publisher's server has gone down. You can confirm this by opening the episode "Links" dialog and checking if the raw episode URL can be streamed or downloaded. Playback may also fail because the operating system is freeing up memory. Android 5. We recommend upgrading to 5. The most common cause of this issue is that the app has downloaded a non-playable file usually, a webpage instead of the actual episode file.
This may happen when you're connected to a public wi-fi but not yet logged in through its web portal, or when the publisher's server is down or under maintenance, and that all the episode links are redirected to a certain webpage.
To try to resolve this, first make sure that you're logged in to the wi-fi's portal. After which, tap on the episode title, and on the next screen, re-download the episode. Meanwhile, some publishers tend to incorporate non-playable files e. It's also worth noting that there are media files which Android doesn't support. Such files can cause playback errors too. In this case, you may try to check the downloaded file by accessing the episode detail screen, and tapping on the [Downloaded] label.
Episodes play down the playlist that's present when you tap play. For example, if you want to "binge" on all episodes in one series, just hit play on the first episode of the series. You can also change the order from the top-left overflow menu, e. In case you want to switch the playlist being used for the next episode, change it from the top-right overflow menu of the full-screen player. Cloud-syncing play position and play history will automatically be enabled once you upgrade to any of our premium plans.
To configure play speed, simply play an episode and tap on the 3-dot menu at the right side of the mini-player i. There, you'll see the [Slower] and [Faster] buttons, as well as the current play speed indicator — all of which you can tap on to control speed.
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