Cast Update: Restoring Backups in the Cast Editor 🪄📦
One of Cast’s most important features is how it manages the natural ebb and flow of each podcast participant’s internet connection while you’re recording your podcast. In an ideal world, you and your guests would be all on a rock-solid network connection and nobody would have to give it a second thought, but in the real world things are never that simple. Problems crop up, guests jump on from unreliable connections — there’s an endless list of connection challenges to deal with.
Cast works hard to handle these problems as they crop up so you don’t even have to know they’ve happened. Behind the scenes in the Cast Studio, Cast is constantly accumulating short buffers of recorded audio before moving them up to the cloud for safekeeping, and this system is remarkably resilient to most of the network hiccups you can throw at it.
In rare cases, however, podcast participants may lose their connection entirely, and in this case Cast’s backup system will jump into action. While Cast keeps trying to upload a podcaster’s data, we also generate and download a local .castbackup file for safe-keeping.
Previously the restoration of these backups would involve working with our lovely support team to reintegrate the backup into your recording, but today we’re bringing a new feature out of beta and announcing that Cast backups are completely restorable in Cast’s Editor, simply by opening the session in question in the Editor and dragging and dropping the backup file, as if you were adding a Wedge or a Layer. Once that’s done, Cast’s Editor will do the heavy lifting to reintegrate the backup seamlessly into your recording without a hitch.
This new feature is available immediately for all Cast users on all subscriptions. You can read all about it in Cast’s Editor Guide.
I’m on Twitter at @JulianLepinski, and when I’m not writing this article, I’m working on Cast — a product that makes it easy and fun to record, edit and publish a podcast.
