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Originally Posted by victorveltze

Is there something similar to ITunes for the PPC that allows me to download TV shows or PodCasts onto the PPC?

To answer your question, all you need to download podcast is http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php and for TV shows check out http://www.tvtad.net/ :approve:

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MobileSmith

Originally Posted by duckie

While I will agree, on the basis of your argument, that an agregator is helpful to those who listen to 30+ Podcasts, it still doesnt seem like a tool for the normal uiser. I could see news organizations and reporters or fellow bloggers using your app, but Joe Schmoe (who barely knows how to open a word document without infecting himself, everyone in his email database, and Nasa) would have to be jobless to have time for 30+ Podcasts. I barely squeeze 5 in per week with my schedule, and mine isn't even hectic.

I appreciate your kind comments. And your sense is right that you have to WANT to listen to podcasts. Perhaps part of the reason that you only have time for 5 podcasts is that you spend time checking and downloading. As news, information, and entertainment move to RSS feeds, FeederReader will be available for you to save time by checking all feeds with one tap. You can then spend your time listening.

Of course I *do* think I'm ahead of the game somewhat. I spend a lot of my time teaching people how to use FeederReader and RSS Feeds on the FeederReader Forums.

Once people have a desire to read, watch, or listen to RSS feeds and podcasts, they are usually happily surprised when I tell them they can get those feeds directly to their Pocket PC without using a desktop computer at all. Any Wifi Hotspot or cell phone data connection will work. Some people will not find it useful. But many people will (and have) found FeederReader a convenient and timesaving tool when you don't want to be tied to your desk. Ever download the latest RocketBoom while shopping, then watch it in line at the store? I have. It's amazingly cool.

I'm not saying it's for everyone, and it may not be for you, but RSS Feeds and in particular, FeederReader, have totally changed the way I get my information and entertainment.

Greg Smith
Author, FeederReader - Pocket PC *direct* RSS text, audio, video, podcasts
www.FeederReader.com - Download on the Road

duckie

maybe you can explain to me why RSS and XML are 'normal' formats for podcasts, these days.

What's wrong with HTML?

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Most people "in the know" would say that the definition of a "podcast" is a time-sequenced, rolling list of audio files in RSS 2.0 format. Podcasts were originally called "audio blogs". And blogs, by definition (I think), are available in RSS or ATOM format, both of which are XML-formatted file specifications. All blogs are also available on the web in HTML format.

Most people still read blogs and listen to podcasts through the web page set up by the feed producer. This MAY have changed for podcasts with iTunes, which recently added podcast support through RSS 2.0 and special RSS extensions. So while the main method of reading/listening/watching blogs and podcasts and videocasts may currently be through HTML, I expect this will slowly change as we all move toward aggregators making it easier to read, watch, and listen.

The bottom line is that aggregators make it much easier and faster to access all this information, once you "subscribe" to the feeds you enjoy, you don't have to go back and check each web page every time. And it doesn't matter what format it is in: text, audio, or video. An aggregator will make checking faster for anyone, even those with a small number of feeds, say two or three. At the other end of the scale, it's just not practical to check a larger number of websites when you get to about 15-25 sites/feeds. At this point, an aggregator is (almost) required to be able to keep up with all the sites every day.

I posted this longer explaination because I think we both agree it is not all one way or the other (aggregator vs. HTML). Many people will be happy with randomly checking their list of 20 web sites to manually check for the latest posts. Some web sites they will check daily, others they will check weekly. Other people want an easy way to be updated on all of them every morning. An aggregator works great for this.

And even among the aggregator crowd, some will want to download to their desktop, and transfer the audio or video to their Pocket PC (or other Portable Device), and others will want to download all news, blogs, audio, video, podcasts directly to their Pocket PC without ever using a desktop computer. FeederReader is for this group!

Greg Smith
Author, FeederReader - Pocket PC *direct* RSS text, audio, video, podcasts
www.FeederReader.com - Download on the Road

duckie

I thought maybe I should help us return to the topic at hand and show you something I threw together last night.

It's a skin for Pocket Music by Conduits.

So far, only Pocket Music will allow you to have the playlist on the same page as the buttons and album art, so I chose it to do my skin.




This is a beta beta...that means no, I am sorry--no testers yet, and also you will see graphical errors that I am still working on.

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nathanwj

podcasts are mp3 dont worry about it

FlyACL

I don't mind getting the mp3 podcast manually but I would like to be able to watch the new video podcasts on my Axim. Kind of sucks having to sit in front of my desktop to catch up on some good free videos. :)

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