Comments on: Podcasting Catcher Software a work in progress.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:47:19 +0000

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By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:22:51 +0000

Nimiq keeps track of your download history.

By: GeekNews

GeekNews — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:19:10 +0000

When your 30 gig iPod is full of music and you are using the remaining 3 gigs to hold podcast and you are down to 100 megs the only choice you have is to start unsubscribing to feeds.

By: kinrowan

kinrowan — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:47:46 +0000

I must respectfully disagree with a part of what your talking about here.

I agree that the fact that jPodder re-downloads a file when it’s deleted from your file-system is a problem, and one that’s not shared with iPodder that I am aware of. I also agree that it would be nice if the podcast RSS feeds contained only the n most recent ones podcasts (although I’d also like to see an archive feed as well, so I can catch up on the ones I missed if I’m a latecomer). What I disagree with is the idea that it’s the podcatcher’s responsibility to take care of disk space.

While that would be a nice feature, let’s compare podcasts to any other kind of media one can access with your PC. You choose to load it up, and only you know when you’re done with it. I can download a whole bunch of video or audio manually to my PC or media player and it’s my problem to keep that stuff cleaned up. I don’t think podcasting is really any different, except that there’s a lot more of it. That makes clean up more important, but still the responsibility of the person choosing to download it. Again, having a configurable clean-up mechanism in a podcatcher would be a great feature, and maybe a wonderful selling point, but not the resposibility of the software. I ended up writing a script to clean my directories up.

By: Jemimus

Jemimus — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:22:45 +0000

Sounds like you havnt tried Doppler yet. (at least not version 1.1) http://www.dopplerradio.net/ Its not perfect of course, but it has some nice features; for instance, a history that you can edit on the fly if you want, options for linking external apps to downloaded enclosures, built in directory browsing, mp3 size capping, id3 tag override, bunch of other cool stuff.

By: bedeviled mojo slop

bedeviled mojo slop — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:22:04 +0000

Smarter podcasting clients

A blog entry on Geek News Central, Podcasting Catcher Software a work in progress, brings up a good point that podcasting clients need to be smarter about downloading podcasts and when to not download podcasts. I don’t have any real numbers, but I’m g…