I’m on Android for mobile, and have used Podkicker for all my podcasts. I’ve only had issues with a couple of them (one of them being the original Aca-Media format), but otherwise it’s been smooth as glass. Does take probably a bit more hands-on file management than say iTunes, but it’s easy and painless.

I enjoyed the Aca-Media podcast–and I hope this conversational style of academic discourse blooms and grows. A conversation/interview is often more engaging than a straightforward report or the recitation of a conference paper. And as Christine Becker points out in the podcast, there are a lot of pent up conversations out there in social media (Twitterverse, FB) that deserve a longform platform.

Kudos!

Sorry for the slow response. Downcast is usually the consensus choice for iOS; I personally use iCatcher (http://joeisanerd.com/apps/icatcher) but that’s just because I heard of it first and am happy with it. But anything is better than the Apple Podcasts app. For what it’s worth, if I were ever to switch from iCatcher for some reason, my next stop would be Downcast, so it sounds like you’ve already found a good option.

Re the technical end of things: our first episode went out as an AAC file, which caused problems for some applications, so we’re switching to good old-fashioned mp3s, just like our fathers’ fathers. Please let me know if you run into any problems. And thanks for listening!