Downcast 1.0.7
Device: Mac OS
Category: News
Price: $9.99, Version: 1.0.6 -> 1.0.7 (iTunes)
Description:Downcast, the popular iOS podcast app is now available for OS X! Download, play and sync** your favorite podcasts with an intuitive interface built specifically for podcasts.
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Subscription Features
• Search, subscribe to and download audio and video podcasts
• Manually subscribe to podcasts via URL
• Download podcasts automatically (including resuming downloads)
• Browse and download older podcast episodes
• Auto-update podcast feeds based on schedule
• Settings for auto-download and episode retention (globally and per-podcast)
• Import and export podcast feeds via OPML
• Import supported audio/video media files
• Support for password-protected feeds
• Create and edit "smart" playlists
• View podcast details and episode show notes
• Rename podcast subscription names
iCloud Syncing
• Sync podcast subscriptions, playlists, settings and episode information with other Macs and iOS devices** via iCloud
Playback Features
• .5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x and 3x speed playback*
• Chapters support for enhanced podcasts
• Stream episodes without downloading
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If you encounter a bug or have a feature request please send an email to macsupport@downcastapp.com.
* See the following Help article for an explanation of play speeds: http://support.downcastapp.com/customer/portal/articles/476114-playback-speeds
** Downcast for iOS is required for syncing to iOS devices
What's New
NEW FEATURES
• Adds search/filtering support for podcast, playlist, and episode lists.
• Adds support for Chrome's RSS Subscription Extension via custom url scheme (How to: http://support.downcastapp.com/customer/portal/articles/1450951-url-schemes-mac-)
ENHANCEMENTS
• Improves streaming of password protected episodes (http://support.downcastapp.com/customer/portal/articles/1451536-streaming-of-password-protected-media-mac-)
• Improves parsing of non-standard date formats
• Adds additional actions to the status menu
BUG FIXES
• Fixes several crashes
• Fixes issue preventing downloads from resuming when resuming a paused download queue
• Fixes issue preventing most recently played episode from being auto-deleted
• Fixes issue where previously imported media files were not actually deleted when choosing to delete them.
• Fixes issue causing Downcast to deminiaturize when skipping episodes or using the status bar menu when Downcast was miniaturized or in the background.
• Fixed video scaling issue noticeable when skipping between video episodes.
• Fixed numerous issues with support for podcast URL schemes (http://support.downcastapp.com/customer/portal/articles/1450951-url-schemes-mac-)
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