![]() You’ll probably disagree with me if you’re running iOS 3.x, and that’s understandable. I can’t help but agree that this is one of Instacast’s best updates yet. The system player in Instacast has also been axed, leaving only Instacast’s audio player in the fray. Many developers are going to be dropping iOS 3 support in the near future as maintaining backwards compatibility between three different versions of iOS will be difficult. Instacast is dropping iOS 3 support, and recommends that you don’t download the latest update if you want to keep the app running on your older iOS devices. Update: There is an option to turn it off in the settings under the Playback section. I’m not sure how I feel about this feature just yet considering I jump around a lot, and as far as I know there isn’t an option to turn it off in the settings. There’s also a new feature called continuous playback - when a podcast ends, Instacast will wait momentarily before playing the next episode in the list. Okay you never-hear-againers! There’s now an option to turn this particular preference off. I think it’s really useful, but others feel they don’t need to relive that segment or hear it again. When you pause an episode in Instacast, and pick up where you left off, Instacast will rewind ten or so seconds to help you remember where the conversation last left off. Some of you guys really hate this feature, but personally I love it. Update: rmp135 in the comments below says if you turn Unseen Only on, you can hide played episodes in the All Episodes list, without affecting individual episode lists. Personally, I would rather this feature didn’t include already-played podcasts, but the developer encourages feedback as to this and other sort options you’d like to see included. Instead of listing new episodes from top-to-bottom, this feature gives an option to keep things nice an tidy. What this means is that similar podcasts will be grouped together: episodes of Buzz Out Loud will be grouped, followed by episodes of The 404, etc. To round out the new features, there’s an option to sort episodes in your All Episodes list by group. With most shows airing in the afternoon or evening, you don’t have to wake up having missed an important chapter you slept through, or risk having your podcasts accidentally cleared if you’re traveling to locations with little or no Internet. To help alleviate those woes, Instacast has an additional setting that only clears and episode’s cache when new episodes are loaded. Ultimately you’d turn these options off, but then you’re left clearing out each episode’s cache individually. Played episodes clear the cache off your iPhone or iPod touch - have you ever drifted asleep or wanted to listen to a segment again, and found your podcast automatically cleared out? It could be problematic, especially while traveling (why are you bringing your iPhone camping again?). While it’s easy to ingest new audio or video episodes over WiFi for offline listening, clearing that cache should be a pretty simple affair right? Not exactly. If you drift to sleep during a talk show, you may want more control over automatically managing cached episodes.
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