podcast catchup

rlockwood · Post by **rlockwood** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:11 pm

this is one of those useful things I never really caught on to, or had a use for, until now. As a former avid listener of Adam Carolla's radio show, which was canceled as result of the talk radio station he was on changing to Top 40.. anyhow, he's started a daily podcast show that i'd like to have dropped onto my mp3 player each night.

First things first, I have an Iriver clix, and manage my mp3 collection with WMP11, and also use it to sync.

Whats the best route to make this happen?

I did a quick search and downloaded "doppler", which can grab the rss feed and download the mp3, but it seems to do a shoddy job of getting it into WMP11 and syncing, is there a better way?

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:24 pm

Don't know a whole lot about automating sync with WMP11 but this article describes exactly what you're doing (Doppler & WMP) but throws in Auto Playlists to automate the sync:

http://www.wmplugins.com/EditorsCorner/Editors.aspx

Might help, might not.

As a side note, this has to be one reason why iPods are so damn popular. iTunes provides a fairly comprehensive end-to-end solution for the most commonly used sync and download tasks.

Post by **stipud** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:39 am

fuzzysnuggleduck wrote:As a side note, this has to be one reason why iPods are so damn popular. iTunes provides a fairly comprehensive end-to-end solution for the most commonly used sync and download tasks.

I think podcasts are popular because of iTunes, not vicey versey.

Post by **fuzzysnuggleduck** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:31 am

stipud wrote:
fuzzysnuggleduck wrote:As a side note, this has to be one reason why iPods are so damn popular. iTunes provides a fairly comprehensive end-to-end solution for the most commonly used sync and download tasks.
I think podcasts are popular because of iTunes, not vicey versey.

Yeah, I agree. I was speaking somewhat more generally though about iTunes/iPods wrapping up such functionality in a single package making them popular.

Did Auto Playlists work for you, rlockwood?

rlockwood · Post by **rlockwood** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:44 pm

thats pretty much how I had it setup as is, and it mostly works great. I was thinking doppler should be handling the management of old files, and didnt realize wmp had the ability to remove them based on date, etc.. should be all set, assuming those functions work properly...