Podcasting has received a huge public recognition boom in the last year or so and I am happy for it. It is by far my most favorite way to consume media and it deserved the outbreak. Also, finally, I don’t have to explain to everyone what podcasts are and why I keep listening to them. Thanks to its increasing popularity, companies like Google have released their own podcast apps. Google Podcasts app has made it possible for millions of Android users to discover and listen to podcasts.
Google has made it so simple to open a web player that I don’t understand why it has not made the player official. If it was official more users would have been inclined to use the app. That said, here is how you can use the Google Podcasts web player:
Now, open this link on your desktop. You will see a splash screen as shown below.
To enable web play, all you need to do is replace the “www.google.com/podcasts” with “podcasts.google.com“. After the replacement, you will get the following link.
Now, just copy and paste the link in the web browser and you will be able to that episode as shown in the picture below.
But the thing that I love most about this hack is that once you change the link to get the web player once in your browser, it will automatically convert all the links you paste in the future. That means you don’t have to manually convert the links every time you want to use the web player. Just do it once and you are sorted.
As you can see, you can enable the Google Podcasts web player pretty easily. I just wish that Google makes this web player official so we don’t have to copy and paste the links from our smartphones to our desktop. Do use the web player and let us know if you like it or not.
