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MattB
Jun 3rd, 2005, 07:27 PM
I have a problem organizing podcasts that I'm sure a lot of other podcast listners share - figuring out what it is exactly that your podcatching client has downloaded!

A lot of podcasts have a pretty random (or absent!) set of mp3 tags, and means you can end up with a vast sea of content on your mp3 player, but you're really not sure what a lot of it is.

Each of us has our own set of mp3 tags for making sense of all that wonderful diverse content. It seems to me it would be reallly powerfull if we could go to a particular feed in our podcasting client, and tell it to modify all the mp3's it downloads from that feed, so that the tag you specify takes a particular value. For example, you could tell it that all the BoingBoing audio (at http://webjay.org/by/tomwsmf/boingboingfoundsounds.xml, should have 'BoingBoing' in the Album tag.

Or maybe there are podcatching clients that already do this? I'm on WinXP, and I'd love to hear about a client that does this.
allthewhile
Jun 3rd, 2005, 07:36 PM
doppler.

also, if you have an ipod and you have a client that'll create a playlist and add it to itunes, allow it to do so. That'l over ride any tag problems.
docsnavely
Jun 4th, 2005, 03:09 AM
A lot of podcasts have a pretty random (or absent!) set of mp3 tags, and means you can end up with a vast sea of content on your mp3 player, but you're really not sure what a lot of it is.

What I do to alleviate this situation is rank each podcast i've listend to with 2 stars. That was i know when i sync my iPod, that I've listened to only the marked files. As for which file is what, good luck with that one!
jeunet
Jun 4th, 2005, 09:15 AM
I'm looking a for exactly the same feature in podcast receiving software MattB, so if you find anything please report back here!

I don't use playlists for my MP3 player, I organise everything quite successfully by setting the MP3 ID tags correctly. If podcsting is to really go mainstream this will have to become a standard feature. Podcasting should fit around the user and the way they want to organise things, not rely on playlists for badly written (or non existant) tags that just end up with a player full of random junk all over the place.
allthewhile
Jun 4th, 2005, 09:20 AM
guys, the answer is doppler.

it renames mp3 tags when you download the file according to your hearts desire. please pay attention and stop sleeping in class!
jeunet
Jun 4th, 2005, 10:13 AM
Apologies allthewhile, I somehow missed your answer in the first post! I'll download doppler and try it out later. Thanks :)
jeunet
Jun 4th, 2005, 01:50 PM
Ok, downloaded and tried Doppler, but unfortunately, as noted at http://forum.dopplerradio.net/viewtopic.php?t=275 and http://forum.dopplerradio.net/viewtopic.php?t=190 on the Doppler forums, there are problems with its implmentation. Excellent idea... if they could get it to work.
owyn
Jun 4th, 2005, 02:22 PM
The problem really needs to be fixed at the source.

Try emailing a link to Rob Walch's ID3 tags tutorial to the podcaster.

http://www.podcast411.com/id3tags.html

It is in their interest to make their podcasts easy to find and play.
MattB
Jun 7th, 2005, 04:59 PM
Thanks for your suggestion allthewhile. I downloaded Doppler, but my experience reinforces jeunet's comments - I got a general protection fault during the first session that I ran it. I guess I will stick with iPodder, which has been very good overall, and very stable, and maybe I can lobby for them to include this change in a future version.

Thanks again.