Pocket Casts for Windows Phone: Now available to supercharge your podcast experience

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I'll confess something. I heed to a lot of podcasts, but I about ever avoid using my Windows Telephone to practice so. Why? Because I've used and enjoyed Pocket Casts on other platforms and so much over the years that I could never experience every bit comfortable with something else. And at that place are some practiced apps to cull from.

Now, Shifty Jelly, has brought information technology to Windows Phone for the first time. It was teased a short time ago only every bit of today it has officially launched in the Windows Phone Store. And information technology's a expert 'un.

So, what makes information technology so skillful? We'll kickoff with the programmer's own description:

"This is the simplest and most powerful podcast app on the Windows Phone platform. The app draws on Windows Telephone design principles while maintaining the familiar Pocket Casts UI."

"Pocket Casts delegates podcast parsing to our online servers. Other clients spend time at launch checking each subscription i-by-one to come across if at that place are whatever new episodes. Pocket Casts makes ane call to one server and receives many results at in one case. Thanks to the server based parsing, Pocket Casts can refresh hundreds of podcasts in but a few seconds, then yous can start listening sooner."

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Part of the big entreatment of Pocket Casts is cross-device syncing. Exist that multiple Windows Phones, iPhone, iPad, Android, the web, or a mixture of all, y'all can take your podcasts pretty much anywhere and keep everything perfectly synchronized. It requires a complimentary sync account, but once you've washed that, you need never worry again.

Information technology doesn't just sync your subscriptions, either. Your favorites and even current progress can be carried across from device to device. And that's all pretty sharp.

Since your subscriptions tin can refresh on their own, Pocket Casts allows you to set latest episodes to automatically download when you're on a Wifi connection. Information technology works also as advertised and means you've always got your latest listens prepare and waiting, especially when cellular connectivity is going to go an outcome. The default setting will check for new episodes every 60 minutes, but you're able to alter this to betwixt 30 mins and 12 hours at some set up intervals. Or, just check manually. Your telephone call.

"Users can create episode filters to match whichever criteria they'd similar. Desire a listing of every downloaded only unplayed episode? How about a listing of video episodes that y'all haven't downloaded yet? Piece of cake with these filters. "

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It doesn't forget the basics, though. And that is, it's a skilful podcast listening app. If you want to mind at reduced or increased speed, not a problem. There's a sliding scale between 0.5x and 2x to change listening speed that you can utilize to specific, or all of your podcasts. If you missed something, tap a button to go back 10 seconds at a time. If you want to skip on, no worries, a tap will punt you forward 45 seconds. Or, yous can just scroll, as yous tin in whatever proficient music histrion app.

Better still, you tin change those defaults of ten and 45 seconds. Customize to your ain liking. Merely like you tin can tell Pocket Casts to stream or download by default.

The rich feel continues with support for full show notes and an "Up next" queue to create a constant playlist. And for those that will ask, yes, you lot swipe between the headings, no taps required.

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So far, information technology's all been about the listening experience. But Pocket Casts is too pretty handy when it comes to finding new shows to listen to. It'due south got a fantastic Discover section which has a whole host of shows to recommend to you. In that location's iii headings: Featured, Trending and Most Popular. All pretty self explanatory, but all well worth browsing through if your library needs freshening up. Or y'all tin just search, as you'd wait.

So, what's it similar to actually employ when y'all put all this together? I'one thousand fortunate plenty to have been playing effectually with it for a few weeks now and I'm not at all disappointed. This isn't some half-broiled 'port' for Windows Phone. This is the real deal, the proper Pocket Casts, and it'due south splendid. Shifty Jelly has washed some fine work, and if you lot're a cross-platform device user, this is definitely the ane to accept. Even if you're non, it'due south up there with the very best podcast apps Windows Telephone has to offer. In that location are a couple of things it doesn't currently support, like the import/export of OPML files (though it is something Pocket Casts deals with elsewhere, so it's possible for the futurity) and there doesn't seem to be whatsoever current support for video podcasts.

And it's simply just arrived. Merely if you've been looking for something to devour your podcasts and oasis't notwithstanding found something that feels right, check out Pocket Casts. Considering information technology could be the one y'all've been waiting for.