Overcast

Music Assistant has support for Overcast. Contributed and maintained by OzGav

Overcast is a podcast player for iPhone, iPad and the web. It keeps the list of podcasts you follow and remembers how far through each episode you are, so you can put an episode down on one device and pick it up on another.

This provider brings both of those into Music Assistant. The podcasts you follow turn up as podcasts you can play, and an episode you started in Overcast can be finished on a speaker, resuming where you left off.

Overcast has no public API, so this provider signs in to your account the same way the website does and reads the account’s OPML export. It works one way only, nothing Music Assistant does is sent back to Overcast.

Features

Subscription FREE	Yes
Self-Hosted Local Media	No
Media Types Supported	Podcasts
Recommendations Supported	No
Lyrics Supported	No
Endless Mix	No
Artist Top Tracks Support	No
Similar Artists Support	No
Similar Tracks Support	No
Maximum Stream Quality	Lossy variable bitrate
Login Method	Password

Other

• Acquires progress from Overcast, but does not report progress back
• Populates libraries with podcasts
• Updates playlog on regular provider syncs
• Episodes you are part way through appear under Continue Listening

Configuration

Overcast account

Overcast works without a login by default. When you install the app it creates an anonymous account behind the scenes, so many users may never have set up a password. Music Assistant needs the optional Overcast web login to read your subscriptions, so you’ll need to add one first.

How to add an email and password

1. Open the Overcast app on your iPhone or iPad
2. Go to Settings (the gear icon) and choose the Sync Profile option to add an email address and password to your account
3. Pick an email and password. Your existing subscriptions and listening progress stay exactly as they are, this just adds a login to the account you already have
4. To confirm it worked, visit overcast.fm in a browser and log in. If you can see your podcasts there, you’re ready

Choose Overcast when adding a music provider and sign in with:

• Email. The email address of your Overcast account
• Password. The password of your Overcast account

Music Assistant signs in once and keeps the resulting session, so your password is only used when that session expires and a new sign in is needed. Accounts that sign in to Overcast through Sign in with Apple, and accounts with two factor authentication enabled, cannot be used here.

Multiple accounts

The Overcast provider can be set up multiple times, once per account, and each one keeps its own sign in. To have the progress of individual media items sync with the right Music Assistant user please refer to user management.

Settings

• Maximum number of episodes. Maximum number of episodes to sync per feed. Use 0 for unlimited

Known Issues / Notes

• Overcast limits how often the export can be downloaded, to roughly ten times a day, so Music Assistant asks for a new copy at most once every four hours no matter how often it syncs. While a new copy is on its way it keeps using the one it already has, so progress made in Overcast normally shows up within about four hours, and takes longer if you have not used Music Assistant for a while.
• Following or unfollowing a podcast in Music Assistant is not sent to Overcast. Use Overcast for that and the change will arrive at the next sync.
• Nothing you play in Music Assistant is sent back to Overcast, so the two will drift apart until you listen in Overcast again.
• When both sides know about an episode, the more recent of the two is used. Progress that arrives from Overcast never moves you backwards through an episode you have got further into in Music Assistant, and progress made in Music Assistant is kept until Overcast reports something newer.