tropicallie

I'm trying to set up my new Axim (which I'm totally in love with after only 3 days) to receive podcasts using ipodder and d/l the files directly to my cf card in a pcmcia drive on my laptop. My question has to do with the size of the casts. Over 1000mb for 16min of audio? And that's just the welcome msg! I'm thinking I'm doing something wrong. I get 5 hrs of listening for that same amount of space with audible books. I thought I read somewhere here that the average cast was around 20mb. So what am I missing here?
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pesto126

Hi tropicalle.. and welcome! Yes - something must be wrong if you are getting that large of a file... do you know how many podcasts that number represents?

In Ipodder, you can see what was downloaded and what is scheduled to be downloaded... this should help determine the file sizes. I have my system setup to download all the subscriptions each night at 2am and I run a backup program to auto-synch these files to my CF card in the card reader at 4am. Makes it seamless for me (no manual copying) and I use a script to delete the files from the PC upon sucessful synching... next evening, rinse and repeat.

Let me know.. glad to help.

MobileSmith

You are right, the typical podcast is around 20 MBytes. Depending on the quality, they are often around 500Kbytes - 2MBytes per minute. Maybe you are misreading the size. 16 minutes might be 10 Megabytes (or 10000 KBytes).

Greg Smith
Author, FeederReader - Pocket PC *direct* RSS text, audio, video, podcasts
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