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:
- 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
Podcast Playback Features:
- 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
