Its biggest strengths are a double tap on screen pauses the video, a swipe left rewinds, and a swipe right jumps forward. Gesturesĭowncast is really designed for video playback. Turns out by default when you hit play, Pocket Casts only plays the audio, but if you tap on the progress bar at the bottom, it pops up the video. I assumed I downloaded the wrong feed, so I deleted the show and found it again. I downloaded a video podcast, and when I hit play, I only got audio. When I got this question from Rush, I figured I’d better put Pocket Casts on my iPad and start testing it so I’d know how it worked. So let’s look at Pocket Casts and Downcast against these criteria.
By that I mean the ability to delete entire podcasts when I bore of them. I’d like to have an easy and intuitive way to clean up podcast subscriptions. There’s also a list of nice-to-haves, not really requirements. Some shows I like to keep around “just in case” so keeping the last couple of shows downloaded is handy. I also really like to be able to have auto-download and auto-cleanup options in my podcatchers. If this trim silence thing is a feature you like, we’ll add it to the list. I’ve asked people who like this feature whether they gain time on the NosillaCast but the answer is always, “not much!” I’m proud of that. Removing the silence can make it more enjoyable and get you through a show faster. There are some shows where the speakers may leave a long pause from time to time. One of the main features that caught people’s attention is the way it will clip out silence. I’m pretty sure you can guess what shows I’m talking about. The ad lengths in the shows can be very long too, so the time fast forwarded upon a gesture might need to be very long on particular shows. I’d like the option to have the shows start at a prescribed time in, but it’s different for each show. Several of the audio and video shows to which I subscribe have very long preroll intros and ads.
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On iPhone I want to be able to set up playlists so I can queue up a series of short audio shows for a long run, or maybe a series of long shows for a long drive. I often miss something and want to hear it again so a quick backward swipe on screen is a delightful gesture. Downcast on iPad for video playbackįor example, on iPad I want the easiest way to fast forward and reverse. Sort of like problems to be solved, right? I do have different requirements depending on the device.
The best place to start is to set up our requirements. In looking at the two apps side by side now to explain my usage, I’ve discovered that Pocket Casts does support video now, so if I was to choose today, what would I pick? The origination of my move to Downcast for video shows was that Pocket Casts didn’t support video. But I still had to go through both apps to try and articulate why I don’t use one podcatcher for both. The first thing to tell you is that I actually use both! I use Pocket Casts on my iPhone for audio podcasts, and I use Downcast on my iPad for video podcasts. But even better, I love this question because I have wondered myself why I use Downcast when I said to use Pocket Casts. I love this question because of how Rush feels betrayed because I had moved on. Rush Sherman sent in our very first video dumb question:
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