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DriveCast is a Web-based media manager for your different devices: USB keys, smartphones, and cars.
It catches your favorite content from the Web (audio/video) so you can collect them on your devices and play them whenever and wherever you want.

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

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

Here is what you can do with DriveCast:

• Subscribe to any podcast and choose the episodes you want to take with you
• Plan radio recordings by setting the station and the time, and DriveCast will record it (once, daily, weekly/daily)
• Listen online to you preferred radios

The DriveCast components:

• An online library where all your media content is saved
• Different Apps for systems as: iPhone/iPad/iPodTouch, Android (phones and tablets), TV (Samsung, Philips)
• DriveCastUSB, the software that automatically synchronize your USB devices with your online library

DriveCast allows social networks interaction (Facebook, Twitter).

Getting Started

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

For Developers

DriveCast is an open platform for developers.
Different tools are available to integrate DriveCast into other environments and build interfaces for specific platforms.
Here are some pointers 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 easy access to the API using simple PHP calls

Javascript Library : a library for 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