accessing podfic via mobile devices

[bluedreaming]

I was randomly on the Fanlore page for podfic and came across the following line (no attached citation) at the end of the Distributing Podfic section:

For listeners accessing podfic on their mobile devices, streaming is much easier than downloading.

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Fanlore contributors, "Podfic," Fanlore, https://fanlore.org/wiki/Podfic (accessed July 20, 2022). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License.

The rest of the paragraph above the line links back to a 2011 post from this community, Streaming Podfic, which is more about the reasons one might consider offering streaming.

Obviously, there are people who both access podfic via their mobile devices and find streaming much easier. However, I know I'm not the only person who prefers to download as my mobile access. This conversation (different perspectives on access preferences) tends to come up cyclically, but I don't recall reading any meta about it (if you know of any, I'd be very interested), and of course, things change a lot as phone operating systems get more flexible.

So, it would be very interesting if anyone would like to share in the comments about their preferences for accessing podfic on mobile devices, as well as tips if they have any (favourite apps, basic steps), or things that make downloading or streaming difficult on mobile. To clarify, if you do access on mobile and prefer streaming, it would also be interesting to know what makes that easier or harder. (Breaking streams into certain lengths? Certain hosts?)

( My personal preferences )

Per the profile (and I also checked after posting), anonymous commenting is enabled for this community, so you don't need a Dreamwidth account to comment, but the guidelines note that "they must be signed in some fashion".