Craig White wrote:
>
> In reality, what you are asking for seems superfluous... you just keep a
> bookmark of some podcast url and when you go there, it starts playing
> the stream, you never have to actually store the podcast (and then have
> to manage transfer from computer to device, delete old, etc.) and thus
> the Apple methodology seems to be rather convoluted (and analog) by
> comparison... but hey, that's just my opinion.
>
That's not really the same. I subscribe to several different podcasts that
update on different schedules. They are mostly tech-news related so I always
want to listen to the most recent, going on to older material as I catch up.
And since I listen in the car I'd prefer to have the content pre-loaded and
sorted appropriately in a playlist so it doesn't take any fiddling to play. The
itunes->ipod scheme gets the details right automatically, including remembering
the position in an older but unfinished piece and deleting after the content has
been heard or skipped. The piece I'd like to eliminate is the need to sync
daily to a specific computer to make it work - but so far haven't seen any other
software that gets the concepts right.
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