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Good Podcasts and Podcatchers?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the take-your-internet-audio-with-you dept.

Chimera512 asks: "I've heard quite a bit about podcasts and software for aggregating podcasts, most of the software I've tried to use have been mediocre at best. where do you find podcasts that are worth listening to? What do you use to aggregate them? Ideally something that allows me to simply copy the stream URL into the program and have it download and/or transfer the file to my MP3 player."

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  1. Don't look any farther by Fitzghon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just use iTunes. You can subscribe to podcasts by url, and choose to have them downloaded to your iPod, etc.
    In terms of podcasts, though, you really need to find ones you like. I listen to Gaming Steve (http://www.gamingsteve.com/) but that's MY taste. You need to find what you like for yourself.

    Fitzghon

  2. iTunes by Dr.+Sp0ng · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, the obvious answer is to use the iTunes music store with an iPod - most podcasts worth listening to are on iTunes. The problem is that there are very few worth listening to. Most of them are consist of some guy with a nasal voice and no broadcasting skills, talking about something that would be better served by a regular blog post, and saying it poorly - "Uh... er... well..." and so on.

    I've found that the only podcasts I end up listening to on a regular basis are the NPR ones (you can either get to them through npr.org or through iTunes).

  3. Word of Mouth and iTunes by rueger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In fact, one of the challenges being identified by Public Broadcasters and others is how to let potential listeners know about downloadable/podcasted content.

    I'd say that right now it comes down to luck and word of mouth. I'm finding that I tend to stick to content from "professional" broadcasters. So much of the rest of existing podcasts are "produced" by half drunk frat boys being potty mouths and playing indy rock.

    As far as clients, iTunes really does podcasts pretty well. iPodder, at least on my old PC seemed to be a resource hog in some fashion.

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    Three Squirrels
  4. Re:iTunes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    iTunes is a horrible interface, and their podcast functionality is even worse.

    I recently discovered a few new podcasts I want to listen to. After accessing them in my iPod, I find that they are not in ascending order of release date. I can't even configure it that way. More so, the iPod exits to the previous menu after the cast has played. I can understand why, but if I want to listen to one after another, I have to go back into the menu and select the next one. Shit, sometimes I have to guess which the next one is.

    Try dragging the podcasts to your iPod. You can't add it to the Podcast menu that way, only the Artist list. Instead, you have to use the iTunes "Podcast" manager everytime you want to add/remove a podcast, and you can't even choose specific broadcasts within the subscription. All or nothing.

    Fuck Apple and their lame ass user interface.

  5. Re:Hint... by charlesnw · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thats suffix

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    Charles Wyble System Engineer