Mastodawn

I've been away from Overcast for a few years and recently came back because of transcripts.

Genius implementation by @marcoarment (based on Apple's audio APIs), and the app is a lot better than I remembered! The audio effects are superior to Pocket Casts, and I dig the Liquid Glass look.

Highly, highly recommended if, like me, you moved to something else a while back.

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Simon 3d ago

@viticci @marcoarment Coming from Castro, I'm still wrapping my head around Overcast's queue. It seems like it's just another playlist whose only special privilege is that adding episodes to it requires one fewer tap. Everything is a playlist, even “All Episodes” which can be configured to the point where it's not really “all episodes” anymore. And nothing actually leaves a playlist when you add it to the queue. It's playlists all the way down, and queues all the way across. 😅

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ruffin

@eukalyp @viticci @marcoarment The lag when I open the app (probably from my out of control backlog, but there’s no inherent reason that should slow down the app) has had me chuck it for all but one subscription a few months ago.

But man I hate how many commercials Castro and the OMGWTFBBQ number of ads (for other podcasts) Apple Podcasts have.