Reason to use both itunes and downcast update#

Single tap for listen speeds of 1.25x, 1.5, 2x, and even 3x (good for American ears listening to Scottish preachers).Simple, oh-so-very-simple, podcast subscriptions.Quick iPhone installation with a tiny footprint.Now this $1.99 App is not a complete answer to the syncing idiosyncracies of iTunes, but it’s a huge step forward for syncing podcasts, lectures, sermons, etc.

Reason to use both itunes and downcast update#

How can it be so difficult to sync data, photos, podcasts, and mp3s between my Macbook and my itouch/ipad/iphone? Why can’t I just add an mp3 file to iTunes and find it the next day? Why do backups of my calendar and contacts result in either multiple lost appointments or thousands of entries for my plumber? Why is there a nerve-shredding software update every three days? Why are the software updates so monstrously HYOOOOJE? Why does it take 4,356 steps to turn an mp3 lecture into an Audiobook file that I can then listen to at 1.5x or 2x speed? Why do you need fairies’ fingers to scrub back a few seconds to re-listen to the last sentence? Why does my heart sink every time I try to sync? And how many finger combinations do you need to delete just one file?īut….a few months ago, I read about iOS 5, iCloud, wireless syncing and everything automatically backed up to the cloud from every device, and I thought, “Thank you, Steve, what a priceless legacy.”īut what a mess! Seven weeks and multiple experiments later, I gave up. But no, I’ve had to admit, Apple has a weak spot, an achilles heel, a chink in their armor, a nightmare piece of software. Then I blamed myself…surely it must be me…there’s some kind of genius in this I’m just not seeing. I can’t even barely tolerate it.įor long enough I thought that Microsoft must have smuggled someone into Apple’s iTunes department. I’ve tried and tried and tried to even like this software/service, but I just can’t do it. There’s just one fly in the ointment – in fact it’s a tarantula.