I was a bit incredulous of the premise of the article, but I decided to pull Spotify open and see how this "roam-and-graze" experience treated me. Overall what I came away with was that there are a ton of podcasts about subjects I'm interested in, but not a lot of them look that interesting. Perhaps because it's Spotify, all my recommendations were music-adjacent. There were a couple episodes with interviewing musicians I like who don't do a ton of press, so I added those to my episode queue, but overall I was mostly amazed at how much content there is that didn't seem interesting to me at all.<p>Sort of reminds me of 15 years ago or so when it seemed like everyone had a blog (or two). Tons of content, but a whole lot of it not that interesting. In the end I ended up keeping the RSS reader and focusing on feeds that consistently delivered content I liked and I "graze" from there. Interestingly, this is essentially what I do with Podcasts.
Does anyone still use podcatchers? I've been using stitcher for podcasts for a super long time, and found podcatchers pretty annoying throughout time. The only use case I could conceive is storing a podcast to listen on my apple watch.<p>Though I am hardly a "pro" podcast listener. I guess my question is, are podcatchers already dead? And if not, who uses them?