![]() ![]() A Mono-Mix option also helps for some people, episodes, or circumstances by converting stereo episodes to mono only. In addition to Trim Silence, Castro 3 rewrote its voice enhancement option, which can boost and normalize talking, useful on some podcasts that aren’t mixed well, or for those that are in some loud or challenging listening environments. ![]() ![]() IDGĪ new (and premium) Trim Silence feature lets you recapture lost seconds in spoken podcasts, but you can pick which podcasts to de-pause. As with several settings in Castro 3, you can choose which podcasts have the feature turned on or off: some, you want hear the space between the notes, as it were. Even with careful listening between regular playback and episodes with silence trimming enabled, I can typically not here the removed pauses. Some people prefer to speed up podcasts, but Castor’s Trim Silence option offers real competition with Smart Speed. The biggest lacuna was a counterpart to Overcast’s Smart Speed, which dynamically removes silences in spoken-word podcasts without distorting playback. With that structure the same, Supertop improved on other aspects of the app, adding features and revising weak elements, including nearly everything I mentioned in my To manage subscriptions or see which episodes you’ve listened to or passed up, the Archive view provides all the controls. Holding down on the Inbox button at the bottom of the display brings up an Archive Episodes button that lets you wash away your guilt at what remains there. I mark shows I almost always want to hear to drop into the queue, and I review episodes individually in the inbox for others that I dip into. If in the queue, the episode is downloaded according to the network rules you set if in the inbox, it’s not. The archive retains listings (but not files) for episodes you’ve already listened to or passed by, as well as letting you view the past episodes for given shows and manage subscription options.įor each subscription, you can opt to have new episodes drop into an inbox or at the top or bottom of the queue of episodes that will play in order. The inbox is more like notifications of new episodes, while the queue is an active playlist. While other podcasting apps rely on timeline of new episodes from shows to which you subscribe-some offering a jump-the-queue prioritization for podcasts you select-Castro focuses on the inbox/queue/archive split. This upgrade deserves a full version number-while the app retains its approach from the previous release, it adds significant features and improves a few key aspects of its design.Ĭastro offers podcast triage as its primary orientation towards dealing with subscriptions. ![]()
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