I bought an ipod touch recently. I used to listen to a podcast with a laptop through wifi in bed before I sleep. Now I can do this with IPT!
Even better, I found MobileCast. I can download a podcast through a wifi at work and listen to it on my way home.
Since I get busy, I have no time to download the podcast on a pc and then to plug the ipod to it to transfer the mp3 files to the ipod. This is especially annoying for a news program.
The next thing is to import a podcast list. Typing the feed address in IPT is not fun. I find a good way.
Edit a simple “opml” file with a list of my favorite podcast and save it to a web server. MobileCast can import it. Here is the opml file.
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″?>
<opml version=”1.0″>
<head>
<dateCreated>07-Mar-2008</dateCreated>
</head>
<body>
<outline text=”NewsPod” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/newspod/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”Business Daily” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/bizdaily/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”Global News” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/globalnews/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”World Business” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/worldbiz/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”Science in Action” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/scia/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”Digital Planet” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/digitalp/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”606 Football Phone-in” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/fivelive/606/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”From Our Own Correspondent” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/rss.xml”/>
<outline text=”In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg” type=”rss” xmlUrl=”http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/iot/rss.xml”/>
</body>
</opml>
March 24, 2008 at 4:15 am |
I’m happy to hear that your liking & using mobilecast. In the latest development version of mobilecast we’ve simplified the adding of feeds, its now just the matter of a couple of clicks to add feeds. For details check out:
http://blog.podgrove.com/2008/03/14/no-more-typos-add-feeds-to-mobilecast-with-couple-of-clicks/
You can always grab the latest mobilecast development version from:
http://mobilecast.googlecode.com/
To make life simpler we’ve created a source for the installer.app that allows you to pull in the latest development version (which tends to be very stable). You can find more information on it here:
http://blog.podgrove.com/2008/03/16/mobilecast-beta-source-for-installerapp/
best regards,
–Frank (mobilecast developer).