Thanks Nicholas. You've convinced me. I'll put the native podcast app in the bin. The only reason I was still using it was because Apple fixed it for a while along the lines of Downcast. But now the syncing thing with iTunes is getting silly.
Cheers Lisette On 29/09/2013, at 7:03 PM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI, > Downcast on the Mac works really well for me. I really liked podcasts in > iTunes, but the surprising syncing problems between my Mac and iPhone with > Apple's native apps made me try Downcast. > Syncing between Downcast on my Mac and iPHone works surprisingly well. I > won't say there's absolutely no problems, because I'm sure I could be proved > wrong. But I can often start playing an episode on my iPHone and then switch > to playing that same episode on my Mac and it will start playing on the Mac > exactly where I paused on the iPhone. It's incredibly seamless. marking as > played seems to work just as well. I'm not sure what happens when you delete > an episode from one device, but that seems to work somehow as I don't get > episodes deleted from one device showing up on another. > In iCloud Sync Settings in Downcast on Mac and iOS you can choose to sync any > or all of feeds, episodes, playlists and settings. > Apart from the syncing, the other thing I love about Downcast is the > playlists. These work really well and sync perfectly across devices. I > believe iTunes now has this or is soon to have this feature, but Downcast had > it first and it works brilliantly. > Having said all that, of course everyone's opinions are different and what > works for one person might not work for another. I know there's at least one > guy (on this list) who isn't very impressed with Downcast on the Mac. Then > again he never seems very impressed with anything, except perhaps NewsRack > once it became obsolete. ;) > Cheers, > Nic > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
