Listen to RSS News on Your iPod

An anonymous reader writes "Adam Tow and Alex King have announced the availability of Read it to Me 1.0, which creates a playlist of MP3 files in iTunes from your unread RSS news headlines in NetNewsWire that you can sync to your iPod. The software utilizes Apple's Text-to-Speech capability and requires Mac OS X 10.2.6 or higher and the full version of NetNewsWire." But if you use Victoria's voice to read http://apple.slashdot.org/apple.rss to you, I'll look at you funny.

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I'm currently writing an OSX app ...

[torpor]

... to sync MP3 files from a URL, to either a) iPod, directly, or b) to a plugged-in Clie MS card.

This way I can point my app to http://www.ampfea.org/new_music.html (when that is also working) and get new music auto-magically hotsync'ed for me every week to my MP3 players of choice. Maybe I'll set things up nightly, if I can find some good new_music resources around.

Another app I want to write soon as I find the Clie SDK for WLAN is a WLAN-Hotsync for Clie that does the same thing - automatically gathers new MP3's for me to listen to.

At night, let the Clie use the WLAN for all its downloading needs, and wake up in the morning with a fresh music feed for the walk to work. :)

What's needed is for Independent Media to get together and formulate a standard URL/XMLDoc message format for announcing new tracks, and then they should promote software which makes it dead easy to use these message formats to update portable media players...

They'd better do it quick, or Apple will put it all in iTunes, and there won't be any need. But a new_music announcement scheme really needs to be Open, Standard, and Available to All.

Pfffft...

[Gropo]

Call me when they've updated to 1.x which defaults to the "Bad News" voice for all feeds that headline: *Microsoft* / *SCO* / *Motorola Semiconductor Division* / *Quark XPress*...