Tivo Podcaster

by nelsondr Jan 2, 2006 12:49PM PST

Let me first start of by saying Veronica, Tivo ROCKS!!! After doing Christmas shopping for everyone I splurged and bought myself a Tivo. The features blow the Comcast DVR (which I have used) and my frieds Dish Network DVR's out of the water.

After hooking my Tivo up to my home network, and going to www.tivo.com and requesting the Yahoo update, I finally recieved it today. It was supposed to take 3 to 5 business days but it only took one

Anyway... I love the Podcaster feature. My only compaint is Cnet Tech News is the only Cnet podcast that has the URL pre-programed in the software. While I do listen to it occasionally, I would rather listen to you guys.

Like the rest of Tivo, it was pretty easy to figure out how to find you guys on there. I just had to go the the "Enter a Url" command, and after surfing to podcast.cnet.com I found the RSS feed address to input into my Tivo (talk about cumbersome... but I guess there is really no other way to do it)...

I'll still probably listen to ya'll on my way to and from work, but I like that I have another option to make sure I don't miss out on a BOL episode.

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clarify for us non-TiVo-ites?

by beelissa Jan 2, 2006 11:17PM PST

So, you are saying that you can somehow get podcasts on TiVo? Can you copy them to a portable device? And, to further clarify, are you saying you can get all podcasts or just ones that are on a certain list somewhere and that BOL is not on that list?

I'm fascinated by this, basically because it seems to indicate a merging of TV and the internet and I've been kind of waiting for that. But I'm not sure how it helps you -- is it more convenient than subscribing on iTunes? Do you see it as a backup in case iTunes is down? I've been a subscriber for about two months now and I don't think I've missed an episode, though I had to hunt for a couple of them. They seem to be posted here on the forum and on the Cnet podcast page, even if the subscription thing doesn't always work.

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tivo & yahoo

by mwinship Jan 3, 2006 1:59AM PST

Recently Tivo and Yahoo put together a partnership whereby you can now access some yahoo content directly from your tivo. The update allows you to view photos stored on yahoo (even though you could already view photos on your computer via the tivo desktop software) view weather and traffic via yahoo and download podcasts. There is no tie in with iTunes.

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Only Able to Listen...

by nelsondr Jan 3, 2006 9:13AM PST

With the Podcaster feature on Tivo, you are only able to listen to podcasts. You'll still want to use ITunes, or I Podder to download and transfer your podcasts.

The Podcaster feature does have featured podcasts (of which BOL is not one of) you have to go to the Add Url command with the remote, and then enter the Url of the RSS feed into your Tivo. It then keeps it listed in your "Favorites".

I don't see it replacing Ipodder and transfering podcasts to my mp3 player, but it is a nice alternative. For example, while waiting for the first 15 - 20 minutes of a show to record, I can listen to a podcast or two, then start watching my show and skip through the commericals.

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BOL on Tivo Podcaster

by datto1 May 13, 2006 4:34AM PDT

Wow I'm glad to hear SOMEBODY got BOL to work on Tivo Podcaster. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but the audio just never starts playing for me. The spinny wheel just goes and goes.. very odd. I know i have the correct URL because I'm seeing the Show description.

Anyways. go BOL "love the podcast keep up the good work"

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I Sometimes...

by nelsondr May 15, 2006 12:43PM PDT

have the same problem with TWiT. Every once in a while if I start a different podcast and then go back to TWiT, it will play. I'm not sure what causes the problem. Maybe when they start releasing some upgrades for the podcaster it will get better.

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BTW

by nelsondr May 15, 2006 12:46PM PDT

I forgot to add this in the previous post. I don't always use the podcaster on my TiVo. I have shared my podcast download folder on my desktop with the TiVo server, and will usually stream podcasts directly from my desktop to the TiVo when I listen to them at home. I prefer to do that because it gives me the ability to pause and skip back in the podcast to catch something I might have missed.

Hope that helps.

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Good workaround!

by datto1 Jun 16, 2006 11:46PM PDT

Duh! I don't know why I didn't think of that. Though I do like the ability to manage the podcast directly in podcaster. That way I get the descriptions and such. But oh well, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.

I should say though, this never happens to me with TWIT or any of the other built in podcasts. I notice that the mp3 file name has been funky the last couple of months it's no longer just the show name its now ''file_destURL_http___podcast_files_cnet_com_podcast_cnetbuzz_060906_mp3_ctype_podCast_cval_BuzzOutLoud_060906.mp3''. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

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