I just added three podcasts, How To Do Everything, Freakonomics Radio, and The Moth to this squeezebox menu: Internet Radio->Staff Picks->Ben's Picks->Podcasts
more on those podcasts here: http://howtodoeverything.org/moreinfo http://www.freakonomics.com/radio/ http://themoth.org/about I've long been a fan of podcasts, and in my advancing years I'm finding they are taking up an increasingly larger percentage of my listening time. Tomorrow I'm starting a job that, for the first time in a decade, requires me to commute. This spurred me to explore more of what was out there, mainly so I could listen to something entertaining during my potentially white-knuckled drives to the office. I'll be doing that listening on this nifty little Sansa Clip+ that I just picked up (more on that here: http://ask.metafilter.com/199286/Why-the-1-for-Sansa-Clip). But of course, I'd like to be able play these on my Squeezebox as well*. The UI for podcasts on Squeezebox has never been what it should be, mainly because Logitech decided to [redacted]. In a perfect world, Squeezebox would have some podcast-specific UI features-- bookmarking, resuming where you last left off, marking podcasts that have been already listened to, etc. Worse yet, the only half-successful service for accessing podcasts, the MediaFly "app", seems to be basically dead (?) now (the UI always sucked anyway). However, I find that accessing rss feeds of podcasts through the Ben's Picks->Podcasts list to be at least a passably acceptable UI. Any of these list items will show you the up-to-date current feed and will typically sort chronologically, newest at the top (if the feed author knows what they are doing). Perfect, no. But nice enough to share :) I invite you all to give any of these new podcasts a shot, I'm finding them all quite entertaining. I'm going to vet several more in the coming weeks, and may be adding a few more to the list. If I do, I'll post to this thread to let the forum community know about it. Also, got a favorite podcast? Post it here. cheers, #!/ben * I have all these files dowloaded locally and could stream these via SBS, but what fun is that? -- bklaas Former Logitech Developer: Squeezeplay/SqueezeOS/SqueezeboxController/SqueezeCenter Community Developer: Nokia770Skin (r.i.p.) http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ 'KHAAAN!' (http://khaaan.com/)...'BUNNIES!' (http://home.pacbell.net/bettychu/2003allbreedbisris/BIS.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91472 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
