Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to Cast Away, a podcast manager for iTunes.
Cast Away allows you to remove podcasts according to criteria that are much more fine-grained than possible in iTunes. Cast Away can prevent podcasts from expiring in iTunes, update smart playlists, and archive selected podcasts. It also includes an auto-player that can play selected podcasts as they arrive and then return to the previously playing music, if any.
The update fixes more issues related to iTunes 11.x. iTunes 11.0 and 11.1 introduced bugs that have been partially fixed by Apple with iTunes 11.1.1. Therefore Cast Away now requires 11.1.1 or higher or many versions of iTunes below iTunes 11.0.
Unfortunately there are still bugs in iTunes relating to removing undownloaded ("cloud") podcasts so this feature remains disabled in this version.
This release is believed to fix an issue related to the creation of the disc image with the previous version, which prevented the application from opening on certain systems.
Lastly, provisional compatibility testing on Mavericks is complete. Final certification will follow.
Please see the version history for details.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Monday, September 30, 2013
Cast Away Update Fixes Issues with iTunes 11
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to Cast Away, a podcast manager for iTunes.
Cast Away allows you to remove podcasts according to criteria that are much more fine-grained than possible in iTunes. Cast Away can prevent podcasts from expiring in iTunes, update smart playlists, and archive selected podcasts. It also includes an auto-player that can play selected podcasts as they arrive and then return to the previously playing music, if any.
The update fixes a variety of issues related to iTunes 11.
Please see the version history for details.
Cast Away allows you to remove podcasts according to criteria that are much more fine-grained than possible in iTunes. Cast Away can prevent podcasts from expiring in iTunes, update smart playlists, and archive selected podcasts. It also includes an auto-player that can play selected podcasts as they arrive and then return to the previously playing music, if any.
The update fixes a variety of issues related to iTunes 11.
Please see the version history for details.
Friday, September 20, 2013
iTunes 11.1 Issues for Cast Away and OmniGrowl Users
Likely incompatibilities with iTunes 11.1 and two of our products have come to our attention. Here are the known issues to date:
After installing iTunes 11.1, you are presented with an new "welcome" screen in iTunes specifically for Podcasts. If you do not open that before Cast Away next runs, Cast Away may report inaccurate removals and other errors. (Podcasts are not erroneously removed; merely the reporting is inaccurate.)
Cast Away is failing to remove undownloaded podcasts from the list when specified. It may be impossible to delete these "cloud" episodes from the list with iTunes 11.1, which might explain why.
OmniGrowl does not recognize iTunes Radio for notifications. We're looking into whether a fix for that is possible on our end, or whether Apple would need to make changes to iTunes to allow such notifications.
Other minor issues may exist with other products related to iTunes. We are looking into them and will issue compatibility upgrades as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
After installing iTunes 11.1, you are presented with an new "welcome" screen in iTunes specifically for Podcasts. If you do not open that before Cast Away next runs, Cast Away may report inaccurate removals and other errors. (Podcasts are not erroneously removed; merely the reporting is inaccurate.)
Cast Away is failing to remove undownloaded podcasts from the list when specified. It may be impossible to delete these "cloud" episodes from the list with iTunes 11.1, which might explain why.
OmniGrowl does not recognize iTunes Radio for notifications. We're looking into whether a fix for that is possible on our end, or whether Apple would need to make changes to iTunes to allow such notifications.
Other minor issues may exist with other products related to iTunes. We are looking into them and will issue compatibility upgrades as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Friday, August 16, 2013
Cast Away Update Improves Scheduling
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to Cast Away, a podcast manager for iTunes.
Cast Away allows you to remove podcasts according to criteria that are much more fine-grained than possible in iTunes. Cast Away can prevent podcasts from expiring in iTunes, update smart playlists, and archive selected podcasts. It also includes an auto-player that can play selected podcasts as they arrive and then return to the previously playing music, if any.
The update improves handling of the daily schedule, which should now work more reliably on OS X 10.8 and higher.
For the technically inclined, Cast Away had been using cron to schedule podcast removal, and now uses launchd on OS X 10.7 and higher.
A bug relating to iTunes U was also fixed.
Please see the version history for details.
Cast Away allows you to remove podcasts according to criteria that are much more fine-grained than possible in iTunes. Cast Away can prevent podcasts from expiring in iTunes, update smart playlists, and archive selected podcasts. It also includes an auto-player that can play selected podcasts as they arrive and then return to the previously playing music, if any.
The update improves handling of the daily schedule, which should now work more reliably on OS X 10.8 and higher.
For the technically inclined, Cast Away had been using cron to schedule podcast removal, and now uses launchd on OS X 10.7 and higher.
A bug relating to iTunes U was also fixed.
Please see the version history for details.
Friday, May 10, 2013
OmniGrowl Update Fixes AMG & OED, Removes Support for Yahoo Upcoming
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to OmniGrowl which fixes issues with AMG artist biography notifications and Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Word of the Day Notifications. It also fixes an issue with authenticated RSS feeds.
OmniGrowl provides over a dozen kinds of useful notifications, including calendar events, reminders, weather, traffic, flights, and news.
Unfortunately, with this release, we have had to remove support for local events provided by Yahoo. Prior to this month, OmniGrowl could notify you of public events in your area. It drew its data from Yahoo Upcoming, which Yahoo shut down in May 2013.
Thus far, we have unfortunately been able to find a suitable data source for local events with anything close to global coverage. After an initial assessment, we have found the data of eventful to be too sparse outside of concerts which OmniGrowl covers with other data sources, and the business model of zvents not amenable. (We are open to reconsideration of either given better information.) If and when one emerges, we will make every effort to restore support for local event notifications. Suggestions are welcome.
As usual, please refer to the version history for details.
OmniGrowl provides over a dozen kinds of useful notifications, including calendar events, reminders, weather, traffic, flights, and news.
Unfortunately, with this release, we have had to remove support for local events provided by Yahoo. Prior to this month, OmniGrowl could notify you of public events in your area. It drew its data from Yahoo Upcoming, which Yahoo shut down in May 2013.
Thus far, we have unfortunately been able to find a suitable data source for local events with anything close to global coverage. After an initial assessment, we have found the data of eventful to be too sparse outside of concerts which OmniGrowl covers with other data sources, and the business model of zvents not amenable. (We are open to reconsideration of either given better information.) If and when one emerges, we will make every effort to restore support for local event notifications. Suggestions are welcome.
As usual, please refer to the version history for details.
Friday, May 3, 2013
CaliBrate Updated and OmniGrowl and DevonSync News
Calibrate Updated
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to CaliBrate which improves support for adding attendees and fixes a bug affecting OS X 10.7+ that caused events copied between calendars to move them instead. Events are now copied rather than moved. Please see the version history for details.
CaliBrate allows you to search for and batch process multiple events in Calendar or iCal. With it, you can remove duplicate events, shift them in time, change titles or notes all at once, move them between calendars, and much more.
OmniGrowl, Yahoo Upcoming, and Local Events
We'd like to take this opportunity to address the situation with local events support in OmniGrowl. OmniGrowl provided local events notifications using Yahoo Upcoming, which is now defunct. The current version of OmniGrowl will work as normal, but the local events will no longer work.
While Yahoo announced it would sunset Upcoming long ago, it gave only two weeks notice before the eventual shut down date. WBC has been evaluating potential replacements, but so far has not found anything satisfactory. We welcome comments and suggestions in this forum thread. If no satisfactory replacement is found in short order, we will unfortunately need to simply remove this feature in a coming update.
DevonSync No Longer Supported or Sold
This announcement is overdue. DevonSync was always intended to be somewhat of a stopgap measure until DEVONthink supported synching natively. After a long beta period, DEVONtechnologies debuted native sync support for DEVONthink, a development which we warmly welcome. As of May 1, 2013, DevonSync will no longer be supported or sold. We'd like to thank our customers for your prior support.
Wooden Brain Concepts today released an update to CaliBrate which improves support for adding attendees and fixes a bug affecting OS X 10.7+ that caused events copied between calendars to move them instead. Events are now copied rather than moved. Please see the version history for details.
CaliBrate allows you to search for and batch process multiple events in Calendar or iCal. With it, you can remove duplicate events, shift them in time, change titles or notes all at once, move them between calendars, and much more.
OmniGrowl, Yahoo Upcoming, and Local Events
We'd like to take this opportunity to address the situation with local events support in OmniGrowl. OmniGrowl provided local events notifications using Yahoo Upcoming, which is now defunct. The current version of OmniGrowl will work as normal, but the local events will no longer work.
While Yahoo announced it would sunset Upcoming long ago, it gave only two weeks notice before the eventual shut down date. WBC has been evaluating potential replacements, but so far has not found anything satisfactory. We welcome comments and suggestions in this forum thread. If no satisfactory replacement is found in short order, we will unfortunately need to simply remove this feature in a coming update.
DevonSync No Longer Supported or Sold
This announcement is overdue. DevonSync was always intended to be somewhat of a stopgap measure until DEVONthink supported synching natively. After a long beta period, DEVONtechnologies debuted native sync support for DEVONthink, a development which we warmly welcome. As of May 1, 2013, DevonSync will no longer be supported or sold. We'd like to thank our customers for your prior support.
Friday, November 30, 2012
iTunes 11 and WBC Software
Yesterday Apple released iTunes 11, which brings an entirely new look to iTunes.
The changes are dramatic, but under the hood iTunes remains largely the same. This means that Wooden Brain Concepts software that interacts with iTunes – iDupe, MoveTunes, Cast Away, and OmniGrowl – are expected to work as they have with previous version of iTunes. As WBC had no advance access to iTunes 11, full functionality is now under testing. Updates will be made as necessary over the coming weeks.
For the time being, some words regarding iDupe specifically are in order. Since iDupe relies on using list checkboxes to deselect duplicate tracks, you must do two things. First, in the General tab of iTunes' Preferences, you must enable the option to "show list checkboxes." This was the case with iTunes 10 as well. Second, you must use a view that includes these list checkboxes. With iTunes 11, there is more than one way to do this.
If you want a view of your whole library, make sure that "Music" is selected in the upper left corner. Then on the top bar, select "Songs" and sort in a way that makes sense to you. Usually this would be by Artist or Album or Album by Artist. Just click the top header of the column to adjust the sort.
Alternately, you can select "Playlists" on the top bar. This is really the preferred way to use iDupe. Select your playlist on the left. Then in the top right corner, use the "View" button to select "List" and then set your sort as above.
In both cases, if your preferred sort column does not appear, go to the "View" menu item in the top menu bar and select "View Options…" There you'll be able to select the view(s) you need.
In either of these views, you can select the tracks for iDupe to scan as desired.
More info will follow as necessary.
The changes are dramatic, but under the hood iTunes remains largely the same. This means that Wooden Brain Concepts software that interacts with iTunes – iDupe, MoveTunes, Cast Away, and OmniGrowl – are expected to work as they have with previous version of iTunes. As WBC had no advance access to iTunes 11, full functionality is now under testing. Updates will be made as necessary over the coming weeks.
For the time being, some words regarding iDupe specifically are in order. Since iDupe relies on using list checkboxes to deselect duplicate tracks, you must do two things. First, in the General tab of iTunes' Preferences, you must enable the option to "show list checkboxes." This was the case with iTunes 10 as well. Second, you must use a view that includes these list checkboxes. With iTunes 11, there is more than one way to do this.
If you want a view of your whole library, make sure that "Music" is selected in the upper left corner. Then on the top bar, select "Songs" and sort in a way that makes sense to you. Usually this would be by Artist or Album or Album by Artist. Just click the top header of the column to adjust the sort.
Alternately, you can select "Playlists" on the top bar. This is really the preferred way to use iDupe. Select your playlist on the left. Then in the top right corner, use the "View" button to select "List" and then set your sort as above.
In both cases, if your preferred sort column does not appear, go to the "View" menu item in the top menu bar and select "View Options…" There you'll be able to select the view(s) you need.
In either of these views, you can select the tracks for iDupe to scan as desired.
More info will follow as necessary.
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