Awful support for those wishing to conserve wireless data – Stitcher for Podcasts Review

I assume that I am not alone in my desire to keep my wireless data use low for podcasts that I should be able to download on WiFi and listen later. How does this work in the Stitcher App? Well, the safest thing to do is to tell your phone not to let stitcher use wireless data, and I did this for many months. The problem is, if you use it in offline mode Stitcher almost always forgets where you were in your podcast episodes that you listened to in offline mode. Super annoying. So then, silly me, I decide to trust Stitcher. After all, they have a button under settings that restricts downloads to when you’re on WiFi. If I let the app use wireless data, maybe it will actually remember where I am in the episodes I’m listening to, but won’t eat up my data? But no! For some reason when Stitcher reaches an undownloaded episode in my playlist while I’m not on WiFi, it begins downloading it! Doesn’t even ask for permission. And yes, the button in settings still says that it should only download using WiFi. What gives Stitcher? Why can you not record episode progress client-side? It’s like 2 bytes of information per episode. And why do you allow the App to download whole episodes when your own settings explicitly forbid it?
Review by Arkady Bogdanov on Stitcher for Podcasts.