If placed in landscape orientation, my phone fits almost perfectly on my car's LCD display, and it's angled such that the it rarely falls off.
Pocket Casts is a good stable app. It doesn’t have playlists which I didn’t like at first but it’s so smooth and reliable that I am fine with with the Up Next playlist option it provides. It has a filter feature that I don’t use that you can organize your podcasts according to your taste but it only allows playback in chronological order. It’s not a power user player but you can customize the ff/rw speeds, sleep timer and playback speed. I tried Over Cast a while back and didn’t care for the UI. Maybe it’s better now. I might give it a try.
The top row of my home screen: Overcast, Music, Maps, Camera. Always listening to one of those first two.
Overcast is one of a tiny handful of apps for which I pay a subscription. It's $10 a year. I have no problem paying for good software (and the alternative pricing scheme of yearly "Overcast 2.0! $10... Overcast 3.0! $10..." purchases isn't any real improvement over just giving Marco $10 a year with the expectation that he'll keep improving the app). It's not so much that particular features necessitate a cost, as simply making a few top features only available to those who pay. And he does run some back-end servers to cataloging everything and sending out notifications, etc., so there are ongoing costs to him.
No, I wouldn't want Apple to buy it. But I'd be delighted if they acquired the right to add SmartSpeed and Voice Boost to iOS and macOS. Once you use those, the inadequacies of what Apple ships becomes all too obvious.
I'm well aware the upload feature stores files on S3 (I did not say it didn't cost him anything to operate), but it isn't being offered as "Overcast is free and you can pay for uploads", it's being offered as "Overcast is free and and you can pay for Premium". Premium supports further development and covers the ongoing costs for the servers he uses to keep track of available podcasts and episodes, as well as the S3 storage cost. I stand by my original statement, you're not paying for a particular feature (he's not charging an amount that closely tracks your particular part of the S3 storage costs), you're paying to support the ongoing development, maintenance, and operational costs, and in turn you gain access to all the features, including those that affect operational costs.
That’s a shame and I can’t understand how such a basic feature is omitted. I’m glad you confirmed it for me. I really thought I was missing something and felt kind of dumb for not being able to find it.
But I don't need them to host anything, I want to send a mp3 file from my PC to my phone. If they need all the files on their servers to do the magic, well then, that is not what I need the app for. I would think my iPhone can do the heavy lifting.
Agreed on paying. An interesting tidbit on usage is this note from the bottom of the settings screen in Overcast on my iPhone: "Smart Speed has saved you an extra 38 hours beyond speed adjustments alone."
I wonder if there's a way to automate this. I use Audio Hijack Pro's built-in scheduler to record the morning news off my local NPR station's stream every morning and then listen to it later. Right now I do it through iTunes but getting it into Overcast would be just great.
