Rockbox and Podcasts

[curiousd]

Loaded rockbox onto my 5g iPod for the first time last night. As great as the interface and options were, I've gone back to the Apple software for one reason: podcasts. At first glance, it seemed there was no means of managing podcasts with a rockbox setup that was in any way comperable to the iTunes method. After many searches of this site and others, I gave up and assumed it was a good hunch.

Just in case thats wrong - anybody have a good podcast system?

If it matters, my computer is a Mac running Tiger.

[saratoga]

Can't you just use iTunes?

[Yotto]

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I copy podcasts to my player, in a podcast directory.  When I'm listening to the show, assuming it's fully cached and I know I'll be listening all the way through without interruption, I delete it.

I don't know how iTunes manages podcasts, but that's the only way I've ever done it.

[bascule]

So what, exactly, could Rockbox not do? I am not familiar with the iTunes method.

If your files are genre-tagged as podcasts, the database can be configured to filter those out. Otherwise you could do as Yotto suggested and drop them in a separate folder and then either browse directly to them or, again, use a custom database entry to filter them.

[countach]

I listen to 'podcasts' with Rockbox seamlessly. (Basically the friskyradio.com ones)

I mean, 'podcast' is just an mp3 file, no more, so just copy, listen, and if you want, delete it. That's all.

Oh, you mean that iTunes makes some operations related to the automatic updating and refreshing of this plain mp3 files based in some sort of xml'ish protocol or so...

Well, I don't buy this mess. I just download and listen the file.

[Yotto]

Well, I listen to about 70 podcasts, most of them weekly.  The idea of visiting each website, right clicking on a file, and saving it to my hard drive 70 times a week makes me shudder.  Sure, once it's on your player it's an mp3 file but there's a bit more to it than that from a distribution standpoint.

But, this is off topic and not related to Rockbox.

[countach]

Oh, I see. Now I understand you... sorry if i ranted a bit...  

Had you tried 'Juice' software? I thing this will fit in your needs.

http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/

"Juice makes the process easy by helping you select audio files from among the thousands of audio sources on the web and downloading those files to your computer. Once you select a feed or location, it will download those files automatically at times you specify and have the files waiting for you on your computer, so you don't have to spend a lot of time manually selecting and waiting for downloads. You can play your selected audio files using iTunes or other "jukebox" software, or load them on to your iPod or other portable digital media player to play anytime you want."

[melancholydm]

what about video podcast? how does one go about watching it on rockbox?

[GodEater]

By converting it to a format mpegplayer understands.