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Podcasting will revolutionize broadcast (and satellite) radio

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Podcasting is to radio what Tivo is to television. Even better, the content tends to be far more interesting - think Newsgroups on talk radio and that's Podcasting.

As cool as it is, the name is a real detriment. This is not an iPod only thing. I use a Creative Nomad Muvo and it works fine. Granted I had to hack up a little batch file to get the MP3s automatically transferred to my player once they downloaded, but this was relatively painless (see below). I use iPodder for getting podcasts but lots of other software is also available. I also use a cheap MP3 broadcaster which enables me to listen to downloads over my car stereo.

Here is the batch file I use with iPodder (also uses XXCOPY for file transfer & cleaning up downloaded files):

@echo off
rem
rem move files to MP3 player using XXCOPY, then ensure the IPodder download directory wasnt blown away
rem
rem Move files to MP3 player
XXCOPY "C:\Documents and Settings\Home\My Documents\My Received Podcasts\*.mp3" G:\ /Po0/S/RCY/PD0/SX
set downloaddir="C:\Documents and Settings\Home\My Documents\My Received Podcasts"
rem Check to make sure that the backupdir exists and isn't a file
if not exist %downloaddir% goto missing
goto end
:missing
rem If the directory got blown away, recreate it.
cd \
cd "C:\Documents and Settings\Home\My Documents"
md "My Received Podcasts"
goto end
:end
cls
rem Clean up: unset our variable
set downloaddir=

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