![]() Now, if you want to listen to that podcast on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you must plug your device into your computer and sync it. The show is added to your own podcast subscription list and the most recent show is downloaded onto your computer. Once deciding you want to subscribe to that podcast, you end up on that show’s page in iTunes and you subscribe for free. Or perhaps you’ve come to a website promoting their podcast, or a friend told you about a certain one. Perhaps you are simply browsing the multitude of shows in the iTunes Podcast directory. You discover a podcast you like via one of many ways. Downcast for Mac is available on the Mac App Store at an introductory price of $9.99.There is a problem with subscribing to podcasts on your iPhone, and it has to do with iTunes. One that refreshes all feeds, one to refresh a specific feed list, and another that seems to refresh everything in iCloud.Īside from an abundance of things to refresh, Downcast for Mac is a faithful interpretation of what Downcast is in a Mac app. For instance, there are three different refresh buttons in the main window. I do think it needs some refreshing over time. Many others I have don't work entirely well and I use Dropbox instead.ĭowncast's interface is plain and simple in a refreshing way. Immediately, my settings, episode list, podcast subscriptions, & playlists all came in via iCloud.Īside: Downcast is one of the few apps using iCloud that really seems to just work without hassle. As soon as I installed and launched it, I simply clicked a little cloud icon, and checked four boxes. Downcast for Mac is now available on the Mac App Store. But I had been wanting podcast listening on my Mac again. Sure, I've fired up my podcasts on my iPad and kept it playing on my desk, and that's fine and all. At first this didn't really bother me until I started being in front of my desk more and more. The only role Downcast didn't fulfill was being able to listen from my Mac. It is every bit the caliber you would expect Apple to make, but Apple didn’t make it. It doesn’t even use iCloud to sync the subscription list between your iPhone and iPad, instead making you go through the subscription process twice. This app does not feel like something Apple made. It didn't take long using Downcast and seeing how easily it synced over iCloud with my iPad to realize it was the app that Podcasts should have been.Īpple’s Podcasts app is slow, buggy, and lacks the typical polish and refinement we’ve all come to expect. Both were iOS only at the time, but I didn't mind because I was doing most of my listening on my iPhone, anyway. So that left me with a decision to make between the two biggest names I had heard about. ![]() But actually using the app was downright awful. I loved the reel-to-reel animation, superfluous as it was. Podcasts was gorgeous at its debut, sure. And I kept on this way until Apple released its Podcasts app partway through iOS 5's life cycle. ![]() Many would likely agree Apple kicked podcasts into mainstream use.Īfter the debut of the iPhone and then the App Store, third party podcast apps started to appear for movie listening, but I stuck with Apple's iTunes and the iPhone's iPod app, since I was syncing all the time anyway, because untethered sync still wasn't around for the iPhone. I'm pretty sure I've been an avid podcast listener since Apple first integrated it into iTunes and the iPod. ![]()
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