Comments on: iPhone 3.0: New Podcast Controls in iPod! Jump Back! Multi-Speed Scrubbing!

By: Naino

Naino — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:42:09 +0000

30 second rewind feature is great but wouldn’t a 30 second fast forward feature be very handy also – especially for Audio Books.

By: Earl

Earl — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:40:49 +0000

On my iPodTouch with OS 3.0, the entire positional control pane vanished for podcasts, and nothing I did would get it to come back (time slider, envelope icon, back-30sec button, 1x etc button. Finally I opened a music track, the positional control pane clicked open just the way it's supposed to, and when I went back to podcasts it had started appearing properly again there too. No idea what that was all about...

By: M

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:31:24 +0000

Repeating podcasts is critical in learning foreign languages. it needs to be a setting that can be added back in.

By: Kamil

Kamil — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:25:26 +0000

3.0 softwere has shocked me with no podcast description or info as it used to be available with one click in older versions. I use podcasts to reinforce foreign languages so it was very handy to examine the written version at the end. If someone has any resolution I would deeply appreciate the help. kakami07@yahoo.co.uk

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:15:27 +0000

I was looking forward to the “different playback rates” option more then anything else in this update, but x2 is mostly un-usable it’s just too fast. x1.5 is definately needed. Or possbily more fine control, eg x1.4 or x1.6.

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:21:46 +0000

I concur with Jason:

"How about a better way to view the podcast title and description. Currently, there is no way to view a long episode title in its entirety, and episode description does not always show up either. Rectifying that would be a big help."

This is soooo annoying and the most fundamental thing one wants.

By: Dave K.

Dave K. — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:11:13 +0000

I'd really like to have my iphone/ipod touch automatically download new podcasts without the help of itunes. i'd also like it to be FAR easier to switch to another computer to update my podcasts... right now, trying to do that is a nightmare.

the faster podcast playing was something i wanted to make an app for for the last two years, but the api wouldn't allow it for non jailbreaked phones. its nice that they finally did it themselves.... who has time to listen to podcasts at normal speed anyway?

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:20:49 +0000

I almost can’t wait until 3.0 comes out. The podcast speed change will be nice. Cut copy and paste is a long time coming. And widescreen for critical apps.

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:32:34 +0000

I'd take bookmarking. And not to be greedy, but additional differentiation in the playback rates -- I suspect twice as fast might be too fast for many podcasts. Maybe 1.5x.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:21:18 +0000

Josh Says:

March 19th, 2009 at 7:22 am

“Anything else we’re looking for from Apple for Podcasts?”

Yes - podcast subscriptions on the iPhone, either through the iTunes music store or the iPod app. There has to be a better way to update your podcasts than opening the iPod, clicking on the name of the podcast, clicking “Get more Epsiodes” which takes you out of the iPod and opens the iTunes store… just to find out if there is a new episode.

Hear! Hear! Surely they'll fix this? It's soooo annoying ! ...