I went and bought it this morning before I left to go to work. I used iCloud to sync up with all my subs from the iOS version. Since there were so many episodes to fetch and all, the app kept going into a perpetual busy mode and would stop responding. I had to force quit about 3 times before it all got straitened out. I don't think I will have any further problems in this area since the volume being transferred should be lots less. After the several forced quits, I had several broken downloads which I tried to run in multiples; that caused program to crash and I was able to send a report to Apple and the developer.
After all that, I did get stuff to listen to and navigate the table lists. All looks great. I think the main screen is rather busy with controls to jump around. Perhaps a couple scroll areas might help consolidate some fcontrols and allow for a layer of interaction. I know, some people hate interacting but here is where getting around the screen could be sped up significantly. One thing that does bother me a bit and I don't think it is Downcast's fault, when you speed up a program, the audio quality degrades considerably. I don't notice this hardly at all on the iPad so not sure if it is a Mac thing or if the developer of Downcast can do anything about or not. It looks like a fun app to work with and I love that he as assigned shortcut keys to about everything in the app. I've only found one unlabeled button so far and I plan to tell the dev about it. It seems to be the button used to close temperary opened views like the expanded list of podcast episodes and show info. On 8/1/13, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote: > At first glance the app for the mac is 100 percent accessible. The Downcast > for mac app seems to be very similar to the iTunes player layout. I only > have played around with it for a few minutes, and so far have gotten all of > my podcasts from my iPhone on to the mac, just by clicking the refresh > button. All of my episodes have not synched up yet, but I am working on > figuring that out, as I am not really sure how iPhone sync works with > Downcast, if anyone has figured that out, please let us know. I have gotten > an episode to play, and went in and downloaded an episode that wasn't > already there, all very simple to do, and very accessible. After only a few > minutes, I would have to say that just like their iPhone app, Downcast has > knocked it out of the park with their mac app and accessibility. I haven't > played around with all of the features yet, but I have yet to come across an > unlabeled button or anything I can't get to. If anyone else has run out to > buy this app like me, please let us know your thoughts as. Thanks > > On Aug 1, 2013, at 1:00 AM, Scott Erichsen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Downcast for mac is now available in the mac app store! Link is below: >> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/downcast/id668429425?mt=12), Downcast for >> iOS is on sale! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/downcast/id393858566?mt=8 >> It’s a fantastic app on iOS and is just as fantastic on the mac! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Scott >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
