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Gpodder beta windows6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() _ BringCast (v4.0.43.0)Īlthough nothing to do with me personally, I'm declaring a slight interest in BringCast here because I've submitted a fair amount of feedback over the last few years - in particular at least one of the themes and the 'All episodes by date' filter, presenting shows in reverse chronological order - exactly as I like them. Here in landscape mode, showing the built in podcast 'Store' and a well thought out interface whatever the orientation or resolution. One of the various 'what's new' views and (right) the 'Now Playing' pane, with the variable speed control slider popped up. 'Fluent Design' visual effects help Grover Pro look beautiful, especially on phone AMOLED displays. There's a podcast 'Store' which you can browse and add from, as needed, and the whole thing works beautifully in landscape mode and on a Continuum display (or Windows 10 laptop or tablet). Still, you'll find a way to make this work for you, even if the barrage of views is a little confusing at first. Unusually, there are three ways into new podcasts - 'Playlist' (with new shows being auto-added if you set it up this way), 'Unplayed' and 'Downloaded', lists which are often almost identical, obviously, though if you're used to listening to podcasts in bits and bobs then I guess the distinction might become important. With regular updates and fixes, it's hard to see what else could be improved. ** Although there's an automated system for removing played episodes and a setting for the number of episodes of each podcast to keep, plus ways of manually deleting old files, there's no over-arching 'clean up and reclaim space' system, curiously.ĭeliberately styled after Groove Music (hence the adaptation of the name), Grover Pro is perhaps the podcatcher that's been the most reliable in my testing, consistently pulling down podcasts in the background so that they're all ready for listening. ![]() This is all usually a given for a UWP app, but worth checking. Support Continuum displays (on compatible devices), plus Windows 10 Desktop as well as Mobile.Ability to skip past adverts with 'nudge' controls, both in the main UI and in the OS's pop-up audio handler (as opposed to moving between podcasts as if they were music tracks).Able to run in dark or light themes, according to AMOLED-screened power efficiency and taste/preference - note that this doesn't have to be an explicit setting in the application, so long as the app picks up the chosen Windows 'theme'.Include clean-up options to remove listened-to podcasts and reclaim space on the phone, preferably as quickly and automatically as possible.List new programmes, across all your feeds, in chronological order, or at least isolating new content that you haven't heard yet.Play podcasts, of course, remembering where you'd got to in each.Auto-check for new programmes in each feed and auto-download them in the background.The test search strings here are for the AAWP podcast (of course), plus my own Phones Show Chat, a totally separate entity with different RSS/directory history, and my fairly new Projector Room. Include search functions for new podcasts that you've been told about, or for simply browsing for likely candidates.Sync your podcast subscriptions and playlists with other Windows 10 devices with the same application installed.Manual Export or back up your podcast selections to the Cloud (including OneDrive).from an OPML or XML file, or from an online service such as or from a previous OneDrive backup) - having to add podcasts manually by searching or typing in URLs is a right pain when you've got 20 or 30! Manual Import of an existing set of podcasts (e.g.But I can set out some ground rules and see how well each of the applications do: Now, obviously, I can't go into gory detail for each of the applications, every last setting and feature can't be explored. My testing here was all on the Fall Creators Update, i.e. The very fact that you're reading on means that you're a podcast fan and that you too want a decent system for grabbing them on Windows 10. I don't need to evangelise the need for a good podcatcher to you, gentle reader. It's a tall order for an application, and here we have some likely contenders here for Windows 10 Mobile, all of which I've put through their paces. And then sorting them, playing them back in sensible fashion, working around interruptions, and cleaning up afterwards. Automatically, seamlessly and without needing a desktop or any direct manual intervention. Podcatching, as you'll probably know, is the act of grabbing podcasts directly, over the air, on your smartphone. ![]() Because I've updated the original story, all your original comments are left intact. ![]()
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