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I'm definitely NOT mentioning on the list that Kindles are extremely stable, durable and reliable ereaders which are fully capable of having books sideloaded onto them from any ebook source. Same for Nooks. Or any tablet if you're not married to eink. Definitely not mentioning that.
Jun. 12th, 2015
Some recent software changes
Jun. 12th, 2015 11:47 pmI've reverted BeyondPod on my phone back to a previous release. I gave it a full 3 months using the new interface, thinking I just had to get used to it and stop being afraid of change, but it's not just me. The new interface does actually suck. Also it's buggy in a lot of ways; menus disappear with no reason, it ignores my preferences and downloads on the data plan even though it's set to wifi only, etc. I reinstalled the old version via APK and was instantly much happier.
I just noticed that Google has a (forced install) podcast player called Listen. I guess I'll give it a try but it doesn't look anything special.
I'm also fiddling with ProDo which is a nice frontend on Google Tasks. I've been a ToDoist subscriber for a couple of years, but I'm playing with some other ways to manage my tasks.
I switched to Fenix for a Twitter client a couple of months ago, I have no complaints. It's fast, always remembers where I was, doesn't have to rebuffer stuff when returning.
Amazon finally started supporting playing streaming video on non-Kindle devices. It was a little clunky to set up but it's running on my tablet now.
On the PC side, I discovered MusicBee which I quite like as a music manager. It seems fast, well thought out and reliable. I fiddled with FooBar 2000 for a couple of hours but I wasn't very impressed. I'm sure it's fine, but any software that tells me to edit an XML file to change the configuration is probably not going to be my top choice.
I think I already mentioned it here but I am running RuneAudio on a Raspberry Pi as an audio player now. Seems OK though it's early days.
I just noticed that Google has a (forced install) podcast player called Listen. I guess I'll give it a try but it doesn't look anything special.
I'm also fiddling with ProDo which is a nice frontend on Google Tasks. I've been a ToDoist subscriber for a couple of years, but I'm playing with some other ways to manage my tasks.
I switched to Fenix for a Twitter client a couple of months ago, I have no complaints. It's fast, always remembers where I was, doesn't have to rebuffer stuff when returning.
Amazon finally started supporting playing streaming video on non-Kindle devices. It was a little clunky to set up but it's running on my tablet now.
On the PC side, I discovered MusicBee which I quite like as a music manager. It seems fast, well thought out and reliable. I fiddled with FooBar 2000 for a couple of hours but I wasn't very impressed. I'm sure it's fine, but any software that tells me to edit an XML file to change the configuration is probably not going to be my top choice.
I think I already mentioned it here but I am running RuneAudio on a Raspberry Pi as an audio player now. Seems OK though it's early days.