You don’t need any plugin to listen to podcasts, but the method of doing so isn’t entirely obvious and the official documentation isn’t exactly helpful. I spent two weeks playing around with plugins that didn’t really help before stumbling upon this method, so I feel like I should share it.Simply put, there are no good plugins, as of this writing, for managing your podcasts in Kodi, but there is a way to listen to and watch podcasts by default. Your media center will be way better if you do this.
Adding Your Podcast Using The GUI
So what’s the trick? Basically, it’s adding the RSS feed as a media source. I know, it’s not intuitive. The media source menu seems like a place to add folders with media files and nothing else, but that’s simply not the case.Head to the “File” menu of the music or video section of Kodi, depending on what sort of podcast you are adding. Then click “Add Source.” Instead of adding a folder on your computer, type the RSS feed yourself, beginning with “rss://” instead of “http://”.