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.
