DoggCatcher Podcast Player v1.2.4008
Requirements: Varies with device
Overview: Manage your podcasts and RSS/news feeds with the first Podcatcher in the Google Market.
Highlights
-Easy import of feeds from Google Listen.
-Android Central's Editors' Choice podcatcher of the year
-Android Central's Readers' Choice runner up podcatcher of the year
-Lifehacker (Nov-2011) finds DoggCatcher to be "The Best Podcast Manager for Android"
-Easy to find new podcasts/feeds
-Fully automated download and cleanup of media files
-Offline playback of audio and video
-Categories for feeds
-Updated frequently - 100+ updates since first release in November 2008
-Active user community - 8000+ forum posts
-Highly configurable
-Variable speed playback (this requires the purchase of a third party audio library named Presto)
Add feeds by
-Browsing Top 100 DoggCatcher feeds
-Getting recommendations based on your feed subscriptions
-Searching podcast and news directories
-Importing for Google Reader/Listen
-Importing from OPML
Integrated Audio/Video Player
-Plays downloaded audio/video
-Streams audio over network (wifi/cell)
-Remembers play position of media file
-Plays video formats supported by Android
RSS/News feeds
-Supports RSS 1.0, 2.0, and ATOM
-Displays inline images
Automation
-Automatically updates feeds on a configurable interval
-Automatically download new media
-Automatically deletes media that has been listened to
Community and support
-Frequently updated
-Very active user community in forums
Playlists
-Audio playlist for continuous play of new media
-Video/News playlists for easy navigation of new media
Other
-Battery/data plan friendly - can limit downloads based on network/power connections
-Media download queue can be viewed and managed
-Bluetooth support (A2DP/AVRCP)
-Supports authenticated feeds (username/password)
For any questions about application permissions, please see http://www.doggcatcher.com/permissions
Community and support at doggcatcher.com
Requires SDcard for HTC Incredible
What's in this version:
Improvements:
Remember how each episode was played (local or stream) and launch the episode same way in the future
Update the header/mediaplayer/seekbar UI style
Notification thumbnail resolution should be improved
Bug fixes:
Virtual feeds items in virtual feed playlist are not sorted properly
Restore does not restore global preferences but does restore feeds
Seekbar button is chopped off when it's all the way to the left end
Many other bug fixes
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