Ondrej Holzman Apple has released a new universal iOS app Podcasts, which is used to discover and play podcasts. That's how they were filled speculation from last week that talked about a standalone app for podcasts. With this move, Apple is trying to lighten the iTunes application and at the same time make podcasts themselves more visible.
Although it hasn't been said much yet, podcasts have disappeared from apps in the iOS 6 beta Music and Video, where they usually moved. Instead, they got their own app, just like iTunes U. In iOS 5, Podcasts act as a link between iTunes and the aforementioned apps. You can download them from here, however they are still stored in Music and Videos, but the app indexes and plays them in its own environment.
Podcasts offers a familiar interface (in a graphical design similar to Garageband for iOS), so you can quickly get your bearings in the application. You will discover the classic catalog of podcasts, as we know from the iTunes application, where there is no shortage of rankings or search. When you find your favorite podcast, you can traditionally either play or download individual episodes straight away, as well as view the channel's rating.
If you follow one of the podcasts regularly, you can use the button Subscribe start subscribing, which means this channel will be added to your library. The library combines all subscribed podcasts and you have a perfect overview of them. You can see episodes you haven't watched/listened to yet, which you can replay or download for offline playback. You can also share your favorites on Twitter, via email or message.
An interesting feature is the so-called Top station, which is an innovative search for new podcasts. These are sorted by different topics such as art, business, music or film, and this should help you find channels that are interesting to you. The environment of this menu is stylized like that of an old radio, where instead of frequencies you scroll through individual categories and subcategories. It's a little confusing that when you click the big icon, it automatically starts the last podcast instead of showing a menu of all episodes. These can be called up with a small icon next to the podcast image.
The Podcasts app also offers synchronization of episodes between different devices, which in practice means that you can start watching a podcast on your iPad and then finish watching it on your iPhone. It will certainly please you that, among other things, it is also in Czech, just like almost all iOS applications from Apple.
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Podcast
The word podcast was created by combining the words "iPod" and "broadcast". The idea of podcasts is the same as in a movie Wayne's World, where virtually anyone can have their own radio or TV show without having a large production company around. The popularization of podcasts was largely due to Apple, which in 2005 added a section of podcasts to iTunes, from where they could be downloaded and synchronized to the iPod, later also to the iPhone and iPad.
While, for example, podcasts are very popular in America, in our region it is more of a marginal matter for Internet enthusiasts, but it is still possible to find a number of quality podcasts in the Czech iTunes. This includes, for example, a favorite Digit and two other projects by Petr Mára (Breakfast with…, Bistro/digital), after all, you can also find our own here Jablíčkář.cz podcast or the act of colleagues from SuperApple.cz.[/to]
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In my opinion, the best podcast is Wanderings of the Czech Past, I warmly recommend it to everyone...even technical salespeople. :-)))
I can't find jablíčkář.cz on the US podcast now. Will it be available there again in the future? Thanks..
Beautiful app.