hi Dan
Basically, you leave iPodder running in the background. It's a set it and
forget it type of thing. You set iPodder to check every so often and it
goes out and checks all your feeds in the background. and when you have
time, you can check a specific folder and you notice that there are new
shows available. You play these in Winamp or another player, iPodder is a
downloading program, kind of like a manager that you set to check things
for you. the synching comes into play because iPodder needs to be able to
know what's been downloaded and what hasn't so all that's done in the
background. So again, subscribe to your favorite podcasts, and leave it
running all the time and your new shows will come in when they show up.
At 02:14 PM 5/24/2005, you wrote:
Okay, here goes: I've successfully downloaded and installed the iPodder v.
2.0.1 Beta, and have just read over its instructions in the readme file for
the first time. After the list of improvements that the Beta version
offers, the actual instructions seem to be exactly the same as the readme
file I looked at when I originally installed version 2.0.
anyway, until I actually launch iPodder and explore its interface with Jaws,
I'm not going to be able to ask many good questions. But one thing I think
isn't premature to ask is about synchronizing. I've already seen the term
used in conjunction with other, related things like the management of
downloads from audible.com, but I confess to not understanding what the
concept means, yet.
Let me specify how I imagine using iPodder, and then someone tell me where
the term synch comes in, if at all, in that scenario: All I imagine doing
is setting up iPodder at first so that I can check for new downloads of
certain daily or weekly programs on my local NPR station's Web site. I just
want to be told if a new program ("feed," should I be saying?) is available,
and then, if I wish to, issuing a command to download it to the player.
Then I expect to have a choice between either using iPodder to play the
file on my computer (couldn't it be played on WMP, Real Player, or Winamp?)
or, if I wish instead, to copy it to my .mp3 player to listen to that way.
I don't want to leave that player connected to my USB port all the time and
have things being copied onto it automatically. It's just a little flash
memory player I use for audible.com programs, and I don't even have any idea
how large these podcast files are likely to be. It's not as if I have an
iPod and can just cram it full of stuff, indiscriminately.
So, does what I'm describing fit the term "synching?" Or is there no
synchronization involved because I'm only talking about downloading files
and later, if I wish, copying some of them onto a mobile device?
This is a really basic orientation question, and I hope someone can help me
understand the terms here. I know what it means, generally, to synchronize
something with something else, but the word doesn't seem to have its usual
meaning in this context. What's being synched with what? I just don't get
the concept. And does what I want to do even have anything to do with that
term, anyway?
Thanks,
Daniel
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