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Cast Away fills in a gap so far left in iTunes' implementation of Podcasts. It allows for the scheduled removal of podcasts on a per podcast basis. It also features the automatic playing of podcasts.
Podcast Removal Features:
Podcast Removal Features:
- Separate podcast removal settings per podcast subscription
- Separate settings for iTunes and iPod for each podcast
- Separate settings for long and short episodes
- Separate over-rides, including keep latest, megabyte caps, and keep unheard
- Global megabyte caps for iTunes and iPod
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What's New
Version 2.9.7
- bug fix: in rare case that Cast Away has to be force quit, it may have gotten stuck in testing mode next time. fixed.
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
- iTunes 8.1 or later.
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Cast Away User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:9,736 |
| Version Downloads:355 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Audio |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:17 Dec 2010 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $8.00 |
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Cast Away fills in a gap so far left in iTunes' implementation of Podcasts. It allows for the scheduled removal of podcasts on a per podcast basis. It also features the automatic playing of podcasts.
Podcast Removal Features:
Podcast Removal Features:
- Separate podcast removal settings per podcast subscription
- Separate settings for iTunes and iPod for each podcast
- Separate settings for long and short episodes
- Separate over-rides, including keep latest, megabyte caps, and keep unheard
- Global megabyte caps for iTunes and iPod
- Can be scheduled daily if not open, or hourly if open
- Works both with iTunes podcasts and with any playlist created by a 3rd party podcast application
- Automatic new podcast episode playing with queue and last track resume
- Add unplayed podcasts to playback stack
- Flexible control of which new episodes to play, when to play them, and where to start them
- Built-in wake up and sleep timers with fading
- More frequent podcast updating than iTunes allows
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This functionality should be free- FROM ITUNES!
But since Apple has chosen NOT to include it, somebody has stepped up to figure it out and write an app.
I'm curious- how can anybody with NO coding skills say this should be *free*? Seriously. This makes no sense. You can't do it, but of somebody can, they owe you, and should make this free? And you slam the developer for making this DONATIONWARE?! UNCRIPPLED and DONATIONWARE! Are you kids nuts? Gimme, gimme.
Hey, if this was something ANYbody could do, or some people have already done, with no unique features, you'd probably have a point. So far, that's not the case.
This is a niche product. And in the consumer world, filling those niche needs *is* more expensive than mass marketing.
I'm going to try this app out, and if it does what I need I'm buying. Seems fair enough.
I could wait until Apple incorporates it in to iTunes. Anybody know when that will be? Me neither.
For those who actually wrote a credible review, it would be helpful to know where and why it was less than satisfactory. Then I might not even have to download it.
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Keith Nealy reviewed on 16 Apr 2006
The developer is very responsive and worked with me to add the ability to handle SmartPlaylists and resolve some timing issues.
Highly recommended.
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El Payo reviewed on 04 Dec 2005
Without Cast Away my podcast library would quickly balloon to many gigabytes (especially with video podcasts.) I may be a 'niche' user, but I find that the app has allowed me to subscribe to many more feeds than I'd otherwise have the time to manage manually, and as another reviewer has mentioned, the new 'caps' options keep both my iPod nano and my Mac from choking on too much input.
If you're trying to manage your podcasts video podcast subscriptions this is your app.
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Anonymous reviewed on 28 Nov 2005
If you have a flash-based MP3 player (i.e. nano) and subscribe to more than one or two podcasts they can quickly get out of hand and fill up more space on your MP3 player than you would like. Through CastAway you can specify which podcasts to retain longer (iTunes treats all podcasts the same) and set limits on how many MB each podcast should take up or a cumulative total for all podcasts. For those of you with hard-drive based MP3 players this isn't as much of an issue.
I can see iTunes eventually improving its features for cleaning up podcats but I'm skeptical that it'll be as flexible as CastAway. (Besides, Apple benefits when you fill up your MP3 player and decide to buy one with greater capacity ;-) In the mean time, I'll continue to use CastAway. The developer is responsive and listens to suggestions (at least 2 major updates in the last week)
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Anonymous reviewed on 26 Nov 2005
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Anonymous reviewed on 21 Nov 2005
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Although I too wish this function was built in to iTunes, it is not, and so far there is no sign of it coming. So Cast Away serves an important function for me and for other podcast subscribers.
Cast Away was not an easy application to develop, so I do feel a modest shareware fee is justified. However, as a principle, WBC releases unrestricted shareware on the honor system. So if you really want to use it for free, you can lie and just check the "I paid" box. Technically this would be stealing, but I do realize this will happen. It's all honor system.
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Anonymous reviewed on 01 Aug 2005
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Anonymous reviewed on 31 Jul 2005
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sorry but i release a whole lot of freeware-- this one took a lot to develop believe it or not. and it's not even crutched either. it's honor system.
please rate on the basis of whether it does what it claims well.
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Furthermore, your post was labelled as a 'comment' and a comment is NOT a review.
You are a putz.
But I concur with the other assessments.
--WBC
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Anonymous reviewed on 31 Jul 2005
I just downloaded Cast Away yesterday and am trying to get it to work. I'm using the "test without removing" option so that I can make sure that it treats each podcast correctly. So far, I've input all of my settings--FOR 44 PODCASTS--than then lost those settings! TWICE! Once when I quit Cast Away and then restarted it. It appears that some settings are there, but many are not (looking at the "advanced" tab).
Has anyone else seen this? I'm tired to trying to get this to work without losing all of the hard work of setting up each podcast.
Using on G4 Powerbook-10.3.9 & iTunes 7.1.1