http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/ Engadget Comments for HOW-TO: Getting Podcasts on a Portable Media Center (and other Windows Media Devices) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/1) Installing RSS Reader from Standalone.
http://standalone.com/palmos/hand_rss/
2) Setting up a subscription to the Engadget RSS feed in the Palm RSS Reader.
3) When reading the Palm Engadget RSS Feed on my palm..hit Ctrl-W. This will connect to the internet and download the file to my SD Card.
4) I can then use MMPlayer (or other mp3 player) to play the file.

[PS. MMPLAYER can also play streamed mp3's which would work with the engadget podcasts as well. But you have to manually paste the URL in]]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/
Alas.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/http://www.jakeludington.com/archives/000405.html, but with regard to any style of MP3 player, not just WMP devices. And with many of these devices you could use the "Set Up Sync" option in WMP on your lap/desktop to automate the syncing process. Pretty slick if you're a non-iPod-owner like me.

"Podcasting" is not just for iPods. The term is dicsriminatory ;->.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/
My set up:
a Rio Carbon on WinXP SP1 with Windows Mediaplayer 10 and iPodder.

iPodder is set to download content to:
"C:My DocumentsMy Received Podcasts"

This happens no problems.

I've set WMP10 to watch the above folder via tools...optionslibrary tab in WMP10.

I've created an auto playlist as per the instructions. But the list gets populated with just 1 or 2 mp3 podcasts.

I think the FileName auto playlist configuration item is the wrong one as this is just the file name which is random between feeds. Whats really needed is a Criteria option for FilePath. Do you agree?

So you could say populate the playlist with tracks the contain the text "C:My DocumentsMy Received Podcasts".

How do others get around this?

Cheers
Gordon]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/
What I really wish is that WMP 10 could be changed to the last say 3 days instead of 7. 7 is way too long and makes me skip around stuff I have already heard on my device.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/
"Syncing up - Now we’ll want to have the Windows Media automatically send the audio files over to the device when you plug in. Click the Sync tab in Windows Media, then click the “Set up Sync” link."

The “Set up Sync” link is disabled. How do I enable it?]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/
Is this unit kosher to download the podcasts?]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/
If youre using a file mountable USB player you can just download directly to that folder, on the USB device itself.

If you're using an iPod or Pocket PC - you can use the Sync functionality of iTunes and WMP to sync directly to your device.

Hope this helps.

Lance]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/12/how-to-getting-podcasts-on-a-portable-media-center-and-other/http://www.eirikso.com/2005/06/01/how-to-listen-to-podcasts-on-your-mobile-phone/]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM