Digital Home Thoughts: FeedDemon Now Supports Podcasting

Nick Bradbury has released a new beta of FeedDemon that now supports podcasting. What is impressive about his implementation of this process is that you don't need a separate application from you normal RSS feed reader and it integrates with whatever MP3 player you own (not only with iTunes, but also with Windows Media Player 10 ). You can now download the RSS enclosure and have the podcast copied over to your digital media player automatically. Here is quick example of how this process works.

After you have downloaded and installed FeedDemon 1.5 b3 set up your options so that any podcasts will be integrated with whatever platform you are using (iTunes, Windows Media Player, or a drive location).


Choosing which music player you wish to use


You'll also need to subscribe to a podcast feed, a great one to start out with is the Engadget Podcast Feed. After subscribing to this feed you'll see each article contain the universal attachment symbol, the paper clip, which tells you that there is an enclosure. When you click on the enclosure, you'll start downloading the podcast to your computer. From there, FeedStation takes over and adds it to your iTunes or Windows Media Player 10 library.


FeedStation copying podcast to iTunes



Podcast feeds inside iTunes, ready to be synced to iPod


I usually listen to the Engadget podcast while commuting to work and both Philip Torrone and Pryor do a great job talking about everything from gadgets to their personal lives.

I never got into podcast because you usually needed another application to download them and even then you didn't really know what the podcast was about until you started reading it. FeedDemon 1.5 gets podcasting right.

FeedDemon is available for $29.95 at Bradbury Software. The current version is 1.10 and FeedDemon 1.5 will be a free upgrade when it goes final.