Hello Listers, Sorry for the blank message, I am not very thrilled with that new Google Groups interface yet. By the way Daniel, you apparently are watching list traffic like a Hawk, I hardly realized I had sent the blank message when you already commented on it *smile* Anyhow, here a quick explanation for scott and those of you who haven't found the place where you can speed up playback etc. Just like in the Music App, double tap the main image of the Podcast screen when the Podcast is playing and more controls show up, among them a scrubber bar where you can change your playback position by flicking up and down, a sleep timer button and the playback speed control. Just a quick test seems to move the playback position by 10% of the Podcast length, this is a feature I always liked in the Music App when playing an Audio Book. So, if your Podcast is 1 hour long and you are at 3 minutes a flick up would advance the playback position by approx. 6 minutes to 9 minutes. If you let it play for 2 minutes and are at 11 minutes and do another flick up you are advanced to approx. 17 minutes. Also, in the list of episodes there is a download and a "More Info" button with each episode. If you double tap the More Info button you will have the show notes on the screen that comes up which also includes the length of the Podcast, the size in Mb etc. At this point if you flick right and come to the end where the show notes are, they will read all in one big block of text, but if you change the rotor to lines and flick up and down you can move forward and backward through the show notes line by line. I actually quite like the app as I discover more about it, it's probably more simple than Downcast or iCatcher, but I listen to maybe 5 or 6 Podcasts on a regular bases and I share Daniel's view regarding speeding up playback, I just don't do it since I prefer to hear my Podcasts and Audio Books read in "normal" human speech, the main reason why I also never listen to an eBook, I am on the computer all day long and listen to Jaws and I don't need more synthetic speech when I listen to a book for entertainment especially given how many awesome readers Audible has. I sometimes enjoy a book I don't really like as much just because the reader does such a fantastic job. I think that even in 20 years there won't be computer speech good enough to replace a human reader, a good thing, too! Regards, Sieghard
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