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	silvermountain	2009-06-25 , 23:37
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Originally Posted by danramos

I know the two other popular ways to get podcasts are with Canola (but I really dislike the way Canola manages podcasts) and bashpodder (which is CLI and sort of a kludge, requiring a little bit of coding knowledge and just plain seems plain unweildy for any ordinary user when things don't go 100% right).

Thanks! Since it won't cost me anything to try them out I'll download both tonight and see how they fit me. Bashpodder seems pretty promising but I'm not sure it does video podcasts.

Originally Posted by danramos

Yes! In gpodder, to go the drop-down menu and choose 'Podcasts' then 'Preferences' and remove the checkmark beside 'Show icon in status area'.

Sweet! That worked great. Thanks again!

Originally Posted by danramos

Hmm... that's not a behavior I've seen at all. Maybe try this: Go to the drop-down menu, choose 'Podcasts', then 'Preferences' and tap 'Advanced...', start entering in the word 'mini' and make sure there is no checkmark next to 'minimize_to_tray'.

Tell me if that works either way--I'm curious about that one, since I'm not seeing it at all.

I opened gPodder a few more times just to ensure I wasn't wrong but every times it opens up...I see it for split second and then it minimizes over to the left panel.

I double-checked and minimize_to_tray is not checked. I toggled it on..closed the app...went back and toggled it off...but same thing happens every time I open the app. Weird.

Originally Posted by danramos

Actually sounds pretty good over here--I've preferred using it with Panucci ever since I started using it. I also tend to use bluetooth as well as speakers and headphones and I'm not noticing any difference in quality except the obvious degradation in quality from using HSP profile bluetooth audio, which is to be expected.

Not sure how to provide more 'backup' for this one

I downloaded two podcasts - both have a hissing sound in the background (albeit rather faint) - but that sound is gone when listening either through N810's media player or on my Zune MP3 player. I even had the girlfriend do a 'blind' test of it and she picked out the hissing in a matter of seconds when I played through Panucci.

Originally Posted by danramos

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. If you mean tha you don't want them to be able to be deleted, there is a menu option to mark an episode with 'Prohibit deletion' so that it won't be able to be deleted and it remains available. If you mean that you want to be able to archive episodes elsewhere by saving them off, you can tap an episode and choose to 'Save to disk' which lets you save the file off onto another card or a specific path (say SMB).

Basically a setting that would download and always keep the latest X numbers of episodes of a podcast. Zune's marketplace works that way and I assume/guess iTunes does as well?

Thanks again for your help!
I'll give bashpodder a try (I checked out Canola while typing this and it's way to 'heavy'/big for what I want.

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