Comments on: Podcast Community Losing Listeners because of Vista!

By: Carson

Carson — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:03:48 +0000

Hi, try Mediafly SyncClient (www.mediafly.com/syncclient). It works on Vista without anything special (but not 64 bit). And it can act as a downloader or sync your podcasts with iTunes or any MTP-enabled media player (e.g. Sansa, iriver, etc.)

You can import your OPML file via the “add feed” link at the bottom of mediafly site. Select the bulk import option.

By: Stymyx

Stymyx — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:22:48 +0000

@knox, What settings are you using with Vista? Are you running it as a Standard Account user or an Admin Account user? Have you disabled Vista's User Account Control altogether? Are you using XP-compatibility mode? Or, the short question: What did you do to make it work? When I run Juice from my Standard account with XP-compatibility mode turned on, I get a message saying to check the juice.exe.log for details. The log says: Traceback (most recent call last): File "gui.py", line 4, in ? File "iPodderGui.pyc", line 3573, in main File "ipodder\configuration.pyc", line 468, in __init__ File "os.pyc", line 154, in makedirs OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\Jeff\\My Documents\\My Received Podcasts'

By: Robert Banghart

Robert Banghart — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:13:22 +0000

Hi Todd: I see from Chris Pirillo’s post at http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/02/10/how-to-make-juice-22-work-in-windows-vista/ that Randall Lind sent the two of you instructions on how to use Juice 2.2 in Windows Vista by using one of the application compatibility tools built into Vista for just such purposes until the application developers get around to doing their jobs. I don’t use juice anymore so I haven’t tried Randall’s solution or any of the other capability features built into Vista discussed at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/security/application_compatibility.mspx . You might want to let your readers know about these proposed solutions and resources in a new post so that you do not continue to mislead them by your alarmist title here.

By: Robert Banghart

Robert Banghart — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:13:22 +0000

By: otakucode

otakucode — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:20:14 +0000

The fact that Visual Studio has a lot of compatibility issues with Vista itself is probably contributing to this problem.

I share your concern, though. Podcatcher development seemed to stall after iTunes came around… which is really quite disappointing given that iTunes very obviously has some drawbacks. It eats system resources for lunch and makes something as simple as updating a few podcasts a slow process even on high end systems.

By: Richard Querin

Richard Querin — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:39:08 +0000

Hi Todd,

A quick search on sourceforge.net for “podcast aggregator” yields 214 results. I’m not so sure there is a shortage. For sure the vast majority are using ITunes, but I don’t think everyone’s given up.

Personally, I’m running Juice on my Ubuntu Edgy box. Works great for me.

And I would be amiss if I didn’t point out bashpodder as well.

By: Knox

Knox — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:46:03 +0000

Hey, I’m using Juice and it works just fine on Vista. No problems whatsoever.

By: Todd Cochrane

Todd Cochrane — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:40:38 +0000

Problem is the open-source code does not include the interface shell.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:17:46 +0000

For the record, jPodder works great on Vista. Download the stable build at http://www.jpodder.com. Be sure to be on the latest version of the Java VM from SUN. http://www.sun.com

It is now my favorite podcast receiver for windows.

By: Mike Wills

Mike Wills — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:07:30 +0000

The OPEN-SOURCE project is here, we just need someone to take charge.

By: Mike Wills

Mike Wills — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:07:30 +0000

The OPEN-SOURCE project is here, we just need someone to take charge.

By: Robert Banghart

Robert Banghart — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:44:25 +0000

Hi Todd: After reading your post, I think it is clear that the problem lies with the developers of podcatcher applications and not with Vista. As a result, I wonder why you choose your title as you did. Shouldn't it be something like, "Podcast Community Loosing Listeners because of Abandon Ware Podcatcher Applications!” I’ve used various beta versions of Vista for over a year and now have Vista Ultimate. My listening to podcasts over the past year has skyrocketed. What I have done is abandon the abandon-ware. I don’t use any of them anymore and I have gigabytes of podcasts. I respect your calling on the podcatcher application developers to pick up the pace. If they don’t, the fault lies with them and not with Vista.