Hi,
I just got an Android phone last week and wanted something similar, i.e. an app that will automatically check for new feeds of a podcast and download them for me.
The app I'm trying right now is BeyondPod and it does a nice job. However it's a 7-day trial app and i'm not sure which features it's going to disable after the 7 days are up. To add podcasts, I simply used it's built-in interface to search for them and add them to my subscriptions list. It also remembers where I left off which is something I always missed whenever I tried any non-iPod based player, they didn't seem to think this small feature was important.
I like this app enough now that I don't carry my iPod Touch anymore, I don't need it. I managed to find replacements for the few apps I regularly used on the iPod Touch on the Android Market.
Hope this helps,
Khusro
On 20 Apr 2010, at 15:28, ken wrote:
> On 04/19/2010 09:00 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> What kind of player do you have in your car that you can play podcasts
> (even though they might require syncing)?
>
> And what tech podcasts do you tune into?
>
> (Though I've been getting podcasts to my home PC, playing them in the
> car sounds like a move I should consider.)
>
> tnx.
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