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I love doing two things at once, similar playing video games and listening to podcasts. And the Xbox One has become an ideal console for doing just that.

Microsoft updated the Xbox One this summer with a huge patch that introduced two important additions: background music, and Universal Windows Platform app support. The start at present plays whatsoever tune during a game using programs like Microsoft'south Groove radio. UWP support, meanwhile, enables developers to release an app that works across Windows, Windows Telephone, and Xbox One. One developer has taken advantage of both of those capabilities then that podcasts play in the background on Xbox One.

To listen to podcasts on Xbox Ane, you need to ensure your console is up to date. And so follow these steps:

  1. Become to the Shop on Xbox One.
  2. Search for "Cast" to find the Cast app.
  3. If you don't run into the app, make sure you accept the drop-down carte gear up to "Apps" and not "Games."
  4. Download Cast.
  5. Search for the podcasts you desire, and commencement listening.
  6. You may have to manually reject the volume of your game in its settings to get the balance you lot desire.

Here'south a await at podcasts in activity on Xbox Ane:

This feature is a killer app for me. I can now still go my game audio while listening to The Exploding Barrel, The Take a chance Zone, and Yet Buffering. Simply, of grade, the feel isn't perfect yet. It stinks that yous can't turn downwardly the volume of the game and turn upward the book of the background app. Most games have a "Master volume" control these days, only I'd still prefer it if the Xbox 1 took control of that on a OS level.

While the system doesn't have the robust volume mixing that I would prefer, y'all can double-click the Xbox button at any time to pause, mute, and skip to the side by side episode whenever you want. Wisely, the Xbox Ane defaults to the audio controls when you lot bring upwards that quick carte du jour whenever you have something playing in the groundwork.

Information technology's awesome that this works. I e'er thought podcasts would never come to the consoles, but here it is. The Cast app isn't the best, but it has enough of the features that nigh people will want. You can subscribe to your favorite shows, you can add episodes to a playlist for marathon sessions, and you lot can interruption and choice upward from where you lot left off later. Hell, yous can even pick upwardly on the PC from where you left on the console considering Bandage syncs everything in the cloud for your Microsoft business relationship.

So get out and game while listening to podcasts — merely don't allow Marc Maron's attitude bring down your Overwatch game.

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