Yes, Downcast handles both audio and video Podcasts. You can even listen to just the audio of a video podcast.
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shane clark Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 10:34 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Podcast app question and overall general podcast question Does Downcast let you watch video podcasts like the Apple app does? Sent from my iPhone On Sep 2, 2013, at 11:47 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Shane, > > The Podcast app of choice for most people on this list as well as many > sighted people is Downcast. It is a very feature rich Podcast app and > whether you download or stream your Podcasts is completely > customizable. You can even set it to download certain Podcasts while > you not do so for others and you can tell it whether to allow > streaming via 3G or restrict it to Wi-Fi only. > The same goes for what to do with the Podcasts after you stream or > download them. You can tell it globally to keep no Podcasts, to only > keep unplayed Podcasts, to keep a certain number of unplayed or a > certain number of all Podcasts. Then once again you can overwrite the > global setting by defining a different setting for a certain Podcast, > individual settings always have priority over the global setting. > Downcast is fully Voiceover friendly and I believe there is a Podcast > about it on Applevis. > It is very easy to search for Podcasts by name, by URL or to import them. > You can even make Playlists, for example, if you have 3 different tech > Podcasts, you could make a playlist for them. > If Apple was smart they'd buy out Downcast. OK, so maybe that was a > poor choice of words, I am not implying they are not smart *smile*, > but there are definitely apps which do what some of their stock apps > do which are way better. Given Apple's resources compared to say those > of the developer of Downcast I find this rather interesting. > > Just for completeness sake, the app iCatcher which is another Podcast > app is also fully Voiceover accessible and quite good, but I think if > it came down to a vote more people would vote for Downcast. When I > just looked up the links I noticed iCatcher said at the top of the app > description that it was on sale. However, the price of $2.99 I wrote > down below is what was listed and I thought that was the regular > price. I did buy the app a long time ago so if I look it up on my > iPhone or in iTunes when I am signed in it only asks me to download it > since I once bought it and I can't see if the price there shows up differently. Anyhow, here are the links: > > Downcast: $1.99 > https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/downcast/id393858566?mt=8 > > iCatcher: $2.99 > https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icatcher!-podcast-app/id414419105?mt=8 > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Shane clark > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 5:32 PM > To: accessible-...@freelists.org; viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Podcast app question and overall general podcast question > > Hi, > So I downloaded the Apple Podcast app again yesterday, after not using > it for awhile, and noticed that you now have to download the podcast > versese just streaming it to the phone. I thought at one time, you > could stream them instead of downloading them, was U wrong here? > Is there an app like Podcast that gives you the option to stream them, > but has the same amount of content? Also, when you subscribe to a > certain podcast, does it put the podcast in your phone, then you > download it, or is it already downloaded for youV And finally, what's > the best way to delete them from the Podcast app? I see the podcast, > then recently played, and a few other places where the podcast is at > within the app. > Thanks for all help, Shane. > > Sent from my iPhone > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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