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Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation
https://marco.org/2024/07/16/overcast-rewrite Today, on the tenth anniversary of Overcast 1.0, I’m happy to launch a complete rewrite and redesign of most of the iOS app, built to carry Overcast into the next decade — and hopefully beyond. Like podcasts better than blog posts? Listen to ATP #596 for more! What’s new - Much faster, more responsive, more reliable, and more accessible.
It’s the best part of Overcast, and still leads the industry in sound quality, silence skipping, and volume normalization. Most big podcasts now use dynamic ad insertion, which causes bugs and problems for streaming playback. Most of Overcast’s core code was 10 years old, which made it cumbersome or impossible to easily move with the times, adopt new iOS functionality, or add new features, especially as one person.
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