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Over the past several weeks we heard from a lot of PC users who were asking us to bring doubleTwist AirPlay Recorder to Windows. We heard you loud and clear: now you can start saving iTunes radio streams for offline playback on your Windows PC.

doubleTwist AirPlay Recorder for Windows works just like the Mac version and appears as an AirPlay device in iTunes.

To start recording radio from iTunes:

1) Select ‘dT Recorder’ from the AirPlay menu in iTunes
2) Start playing an iTunes audio or online radio stream

Recorded audio is saved to your Music folder under “Recorder”. You can record 10 sec samples for free, or upgrade to the full version for $9.99.

Download doubleTwist AirPlay Recorder for Windows.

Our new release today brings KitKat support and introduces a delicious new UI that takes advantage of the full screen real estate of an Android device, automatically adapting to tablet look for larger screens, while maintaining a consistent design language across all form factors.

When you launch the app you’ll be welcomed with a rich visual experience, making heavy use of album and artist images, tailored to today’s higher resolution screens. We also addressed the challenge of managing music in a touch interface by introducing a powerful new multi-select mode, simplifying common music player actions such as playlist management, play queue editing and creation of new Magic Radio stations based on Artists, Albums or Playlists.

More specifically, the new doubleTwist release brings:

• Artist bios & images for a visually-rich music browsing experience
• Multi-select mode for easier music management: you can now easily create new playlists, batch-add songs to the Play Queue, delete songs, etc
• Ability to launch Magic Radio stations directly from your music library: you can now easily create new Magic Radio stations while browsing your music library by Artist, Album, Song or Playlist.
• Navigation, album art and album search improvements.
• Free, ad-supported Podcast management for users who have not upgraded to doubleTwist Pro.

It’s easy to dismiss a minimal redesign as easy. After all, how hard can it be when the amount of visual elements is reduced? It was actually quite a challenge to create something minimal and well balanced that still communicated our ‘signature’ style to users. Our application had matured quite a bit, offering lots of complex features, from Magic Radio to playlist management, that are more easily presented with more complex visual elements. To present things well and preserve a great-looking layout, we did a lot of experimenting.

A good example is the navigation: we didn’t want to simply give it a new coat of minimal paint, but redesign it so it felt at home with the new conventions of slide-out navigation in Android KitKat. It was also designed to be consistent across all devices, from tablets to phones.

We’re really happy with how our redesign turned out — and hope you’ll love it too!

doubleTwist is handcrafted with ❤ in San Francisco.

Ever dream of waking up with your favorite artist? Now you can with doubleTwist Alarm Clock.

Our latest gorgeous, intuitive and highly functional Android app is now available on Google Play. The Alarm Clock is just $0.99 for the first 10,000 customers. If you purchase by 04/05/12, and tweet about it or like us on Facebook, you will be automatically entered to win a fantastic designer clock by Biegert & Funk, worth $1100. Full details and rules are available at www.doubletwist.com/alarmclock/.

doubleTwist Alarm Clock includes:

• Two clock modes: flip clock and analog clock, includes nightstand dim mode.
• Set alarm through one of two modes: Time or Sleep Cycle. Sleep Cycle helps pick optimal wake-up times to correspond with sleep cycles.
• Set multiple alarms.
• Set recurring alarms (weekdays, weekends, etc).
• Set a custom label for your alarms.
• Choose from built-in alarm sounds or wake up to your favorite song or playlist (requires free doubleTwist Player app).
• View time pending until next scheduled alarm.
• Set snooze duration and alarm volume.

doubleTwist Alarm Clock is handmade with ❤ in San Francisco.

We’ve been working for several months to bring you the best podcast experience available on Android. A whole universe of music, talk and video shows all from within your favorite Android app. Browse, play and subscribe to your favorite shows wirelessly from your Android, with no syncing or wires.

• Search a huge directory of audio and video podcasts.
• Browse by category (such as Music, Comedy, News and Sports).
• Stream or download individual episodes.
• Subscribe and manage your feeds.
• Resumes playback from where you left off.
• 10 second back and 30 second skip playback controls.
• Smart download settings to conserve battery and bandwidth.

doubleTwist Podcasts is now available as an in-app upgrade and as part of the newly offered doubleTwist Pro that unlocks all of the premium doubleTwist features (AirSync, AirPlay, EQ, hi-res album art downloads and wireless podcasts). Browsing/searching the directory and streaming podcasts is available for free to all users.

Enjoy your podcasts,
doubleTwist team