Hey thanks for the info. I'll subscribe to a podcast I am most familiar with and see how things compare. What is interesting is I tried tapping on the "now playing option" yet I did not see the option to increase the speed. I did find the button for sharing, so not sure what in the heck I was doing wrong. I'll also compare the show notes options. I will say I do like the interface of the Podcast app quite a bit.
On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Sieghard wrote: > 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 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
