“In what may prove to be the next big thing for the iPod, weblogger Adam Curry has released the source code to an application which allows users to automatically download MP3 audio files from weblogs and other web sites to their iPod,” Ian Betteridge reports for ExtremeiPod.
“The project, called iPodder, utilizes the ability of RSS feeds to syndicate content, including files, combined with a small application which takes this content and puts it on your iPod. Both Mac and Windows versions are available, although it’s stressed that both are early versions. The Mac version utilizes AppleScript, while other versions are available in Perl and Python,” Betteridge reports.
Full article here.
It does work, but the first time you run, watch out! Even on a fast connection your dl pipe will be locked up for a llllloooonnnnggggg time.
The blog files are hugh (30+ MB some of them), and the software is not yet “smart” enough to differentiate between duplicates BEFORE the download. Unless it’s been corrected in the last week or so. As far as I can tell, there is no way, yet, to select what individual audio blogs you want to download, so the script (yes its an Applescript) just downloads everything from 5 separate blog services.
However, I have to admit, that listening to some of these in the background on iTunes is pretty good.
Zac
Here come the MS viruses via iPods to PC, and possibly from PCs to Mac.