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DriveCast is a web-based media manager for your different devices, USB keys, smartphones, TVs, and cars.
It catches your favorite contents from the web (audio/video) so that you can collect them on your devices in order to play them whenever and wherever you want.

DriveCast looks like an web-based iTunes, but it is different because it focuses on handling your “Fresh” multimedia contents saving them in your online library.

DriveCast will automatically manage your contents keeping them always up-to-date!

Here is what you can do with DriveCast:

• Subscribe to any podcast and decide the episodes you want to take with you
• Plan radio recordings, set the channel and the time you want DriveCast to record it (once, daily, weekly/daily)
• Add items while you browse on Internet, when you find an interesting clip you can add it to your online library with just a click

The DriveCast components:

• Online library is where all your media contents are saved
• DriveCastUSB is the software that automatically synchronize your devices with your online library
• Multimedia WebRecorder allows to record Internet media, if you play content on web MMWR will keep it for you.

DriveCast allows social network's interaction with Twitter and Facebook.

Getting Started

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Understand how to use portable device
• Use Multimedia WebRecorder
• Plan a radio recording
• Associate your Twitter account
• Associate your Facebook account
• Discover how to subscribe podcasts
• How to connect your iPod
• How to connect your TomTom

For Developers

DriveCast is an open platform for developers.
Different tools are available to integrate DriveCast in other environment and build interfaces for specific platforms.
Here some pointer to the tools and software available.

Drivecast API 2.0 : provides a REST API (optimized and faster)

Drivecast API 1.0 : provides a REST API (obsolete)

API FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about the API

API LICENSE: Terms of use for Drivecast API

PHP Library : a library for an easy access to the API using simple PHP calls

Javascript Library : a library for an easy access to the API using simple Javascript calls

http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivecastusb is an open source project containing the C code for a DriveCast synchronization program