Podcasts
 

Can i download/subscribe to, save and play podcasts on the 770?

/Jon

Please define "podcast".

I use the 770 to play podcasts regularly, and I've grown quite fond of podcasting thanks to it. I tend to get podcasts via opera alone, I haven't used it with the rss reader, I can remember the OS2005 feed reader was not that good, maybe then I just desisted to try getting my podcast that way. Thinking of it, maybe I'll try again and subscribe to "buzz out loud" and "twit".

Ok, just in case somebody else doesn't know what a podcast is, it's just a radio program that you can download in your computer and transfer to listen to it in your MP3 player(or with the N770 you just skip the transfering part), typically an iPOD, so that's why most people call them podcast, although netcast is gaining some momentum.

Cheers,

So, basically the question is: Can the 770 play MP3 files?

Doesn't anyone read product specs anymore? :confused:

i'l ignore the pathetic comment.
Thanks for that Joq, ta.
Jon.

AFAIK, you cannot get casts via the 770's RSS software. This is sometimes frustrating as not all casts have sites, some are just via RSS.

Let me get in a plug...

http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/

It can d/l direct to the 770! Shiny!

A (not so easy) workaround is to use slimserver (http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html). It will link to any podcast you tell it to. From slimserver you can then either stream the podcast or download it to your 770 via opera or other browser.

Or alternatively, you could subscribe to various AV podcasts with their alternative format "RSS feeds" on a PC using a UPnP Server such as TVersity and then stream the desired podcast at will to the Nokia 770 in a preferred format using Media Streamer or Opera browser and mplayer. (This option allows the feeds to be subscribed to and listened/watched by other UPnP devices etc around the home as well)

(When Video is directly supported via Media Streamer on the Nokia 770 it will be easier and more intuitive with a Media server such as TVersity)

TVersity
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Anyone else using "bashpodder"?

It's a command line app. It needs wget and bash installed. It's not sexy, but it's small, simple, and easily adapted. I like it.

http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/

how about rss feeds with enclosures

Unfortunately, the built in RSS reader doesn't handle enclosures. I first dealt with this by using Bloglines to aggregate podcasts (aka: mp3 enclosures), but that still doesn't automate the downloading of content to the N770 and thus isn't too helpful if you want to listen to them offline.

I searched the forums and I'm surprised there aren't more posts related to podcasts...perhaps most N770 owners also own iPods?

that's what I use... integrates with my laptop and works in the car.

I've found that a simple My Yahoo page can be configured to subscribe to and stream all of the podcasts that I listen to on a regular basis. Once I figured this out, I stopped using my ipod for podcasts - too much bother to plug the darn thing into my Windoze machine, start iTunes, update, etc.!

Use bashpodder....bashpodder works. Here's what I did to get it to work....

Install wget
Change first line of bashpodder to /bin/sh
config bp.conf like you want
run in a xterm: sh bashpodder.shell

That's it. You could do it in cron too if you want (is cron on the 770 yet??).