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For iOS devices that support multitasking (iPhone 3Gs and later, iPod Touch 3rd Generation and later and all iPads), Downcast has limited support for running in the background, based on restrictions…
Updated 2 years ago by George Cox
Currently, macOS offers no reasonable method for sandboxed applications to use the built-in media keys. Downcast supports two methods of working around this problem: Option 1 - Install BeardedSpice (…
Updated 7 years ago by George Cox
Downcast can periodically refresh your feeds while running in the background. When background fetch is enabled, iOS will frequently [1] wake Downcast while in the background. When this happens, it ha…
What Downcast Does Not Collect. Personally Identifying or Sensitive Information. This means Downcast does not collect your name, email address, location, physical address, financial information, pass…
Updated 4 years ago by George Cox
The following gestures are available while playing audio or video podcasts: Double tap (one or two fingers) toggles play/pause. Two finger swipe left/right for forward/backward. One finger left/right…
Downcast supports several playback rates between 0.5x and 3x. To jump to a specific playback rate - Tap and hold the playback speed button on the player view. This will present a list allowing you to…
Updated 6 years ago by George Cox
This feature is coming in the next major version, v3.0. . Downcast does not yet support manually populated ("on the go") playlists. However, there are a couple of ways to simulate one while we implem…
Downcast supports assigning custom artwork to podcast feeds. iOS Tap the podcast in the Podcasts list. Tap the Info icon in the bottom toolbar. Tap & hold the existing artwork at the top of the view.…
I try my best to fix any bugs that cause crashes, but some take longer than others to diagnose. Sometimes a crash can be caused by memory pressure, especially if you have gigantic podcast library. If…
How can I use Downcast with my Sonos system?. Currently, the recommended way is to connect your Sonos system to an Airport Express device on your WIFI network. This will allow you to play audio throu…
Default paths for your media library and Downcast's preferences (plist) file.
iOS Tap the More tab. v2.9.23 and up Tap the Support button.. Earlier versions Tap Help & Feedback. Tap Submit Log File.. macOS Click the Help menu. Click Submit Log File This prompts you to save the…
Beginning with version 2.5.2, Downcast's default behavior is to prevent iOS from including podcast media files and images when backing up your device to iCloud or iTunes. This allows users to backup…
Locking a podcast episode prevents the respective episode from ever being auto-deleted by your episode retention settings or iCloud syncing. Episodes can be locked by either viewing episode details (…
Although Downcast supports password-protected podcast subscriptions, it cannot stream password-protected episodes. These episodes must first be downloaded before Downcast can play them.
"Non-local" is used to describe podcast episodes that exist in a podcast's feed but have not been downloaded or marked for streaming.
An episode is considered "New" when it is initially discovered during a podcast feed refresh. It will keep this status until the next feed refresh, after which its "New" status will be cleared, regar…
As of Mac OS 10.9 preferences files are cached by Mac OS. Prior to Mac OS 10.9 you may have been advised to delete your preferences file to recover from various issues. This will no longer work as of…
Supported URL Schemes Downcast supports the following podcast feed URL schemes itpc:// podcast:// feed:// downcast:// When navigating to a URL which uses any of the above URL schemes, Downcast will a…
While troubleshooting a reported issue, Downcast support may request that you send crash logs for Downcast for iOS. The following instructions will help you locate these crash logs: Mac. Sync your iO…
Overview. Downcast uses a bookmarking feature of Mac OS to store bookmarks for downloaded and imported content. This allows Downcast to maintain persistent access to your content even if you move or…
Downcast supports playback control via headphone buttons. The volume buttons always control volume but the middle button's behavior differs based on whether you have Downcast's "Remote Media Skip" se…
As of v2.9.8 of Downcast for iOS a new feature has been added that will allow you to provide Downcast with additional financial support. Downcast has always been one of the most inexpensive podcast c…
If you're looking to unsubscribe from the iOS beta program, you can do this without contacting us. How to unsubscribe Open TestFlight. Tap Downcast. Scroll down to the bottom. To control the notifica…
iOS - 9.3.5+ Support for iOS 9 & iOS 10 will likely be dropped in 2018 macOS - 10.11+ Support for macOS 10.11 will be dropped in 2018 watchOS - 2.0+ Only so many versions of an operating system can b…
Tapping the podcast/episode image on the podcast player, podcast details or episode details views will toggle the size of the image.
The main podcast list is divided into two sections: (1) podcasts that have local unplayed episodes and (2) podcasts that have no local unplayed episodes. This list cannot be manually reordered but th…
When priority play is enabled within Settings, Downcast will attempt to play episodes in priority order within playlists. Rather than playing the next episode in the playlist, Downcast will search fo…
Info icon (shown when there are additional details to view) Continuous Play (red when enabled) Share relevant information with services such as Twitter, Facebook, Instapaper, etc. Sleep timer Content…
Playlist priority is a podcast-specific setting that influences the sort order of the respective podcast's episodes within playlists. Episodes whose podcast has a higher playlist priority will sort h…
Currently, Downcast for macOS does not have built in support for Airplay. However, you can change your Mac's audio output to output to an airplay device by option + clicking the volume icon in macOS'…
