Podcast D/L Help: Palm Tungsten E Handheld

[theFerf]

Hello Alley-folk:
I recently received an email from someone wanting to download podcasts to their Palm Tungsten E Handheld. Unfortunately, I know nothing about them. Does anyone have some help we could provide to this guy? Here is the device (http://www.palmone.com/us/products/handhelds/tungsten-e/) specs.

[yalborap]

MP3 playing program for the palm. There might be something at www.freewarepalm.com.

[RandomChatter]

Wow... This is a really old post, so I'm not sure it's still relevant, but I'm kind of a Palm Expert (please, no jokes about needing a girlfriend), so hopefully I can be of assistance for anyone who's curious about this.

First of all, the feature some programs (news aggregators or podcast download tools) have that will somehow download files directly to an iPod will NOT work here. Some of those programs may, but not by using that feature.

The feature that will allow you to download directly to a Palm (or any other non-iPod MP3 player) is the same feature that allows you to download to your hard drive. In other words, you have to make Windows think the memory card on your Palm is a removable drive, and then you tell your podcasting software to store it to that drive by default (just like you would to any folder on your hard drive).

The key here is that you must already have the Palm "active" as an external, removable drive BEFORE you have your podcasting software download anything. If your Palm's memory card shows up as the "E:" drive, and you tell your podcasting software to save files to "E:", that's great, as long as your Palm is plugged in, turned on, and in "drive" mode. Otherwise, the podcast software will probably give you errors, saying it can't find the destination directory.

Some Palm devices have a built-in "drive mode" program. I think the Sony Clie's do, and my new Tunsten T5 does (but is otherwise buggy -- I'd recommend buying any Tungsten BUT the T5). But if yours doesn't, you can download a third-party program to do it for you. You'll probably have to register it, and it'll probably cost you about $10 or $20.

If you're looking for such a program, try looking at either www.handango.com (http://www.handango.com) or www.palmgear.com (http://www.palmgear.com).

Hope that helps!

[blancoal]

I have a Treo, and I use pockettunes and an SD card. The fastest way to get the podcasts over was to have my podcast SW (ipodder) store it on the PC, then manually copy over the directory. I have a need for a smarter sync because I collect more podcasts than fit on the card I have (512 MB), but I do this manually right now.

Alex

[Courtney9468]

I have no idea of what is going on? :o)