FeedReader is pretty. It is slick and it gives off the feeling that it should be everything that I want it be. In fact, it looks so much like it should be what I need that I wasted a significant amount of time trying to find missing functionality just because I believed it should be there.
Ignore non-enclosure posts: Nope. In fact, I think that FeedReader would be wonderful for someone who merely wished to read their feeds. Handling of the enclosure is secondary at best.
Configurable download location: That’s a go, but the default location is in a system folder that some Media Players are not even going to be able to see.
Configurable Trash Collection System: Uh. No. Nope. Not at all. Like I said, media is a dim secondary concern for FeedReader
Automatic ID3 Editing: Hahahaha. Sorry. There is nothing here for that.
Configure # of feeds scanned during sync: Nope.
Configure # of items to D/L at once: Nope.
Ability to set bandwidth upper limit: Nope.
OPML: Import and export both work smoothly and with very little worth mentioning. However, FeedReader handles automatic downloads of imported feeds differently than it does feeds that are singly added. I may have missed some point where this was made clear, but I only discovered it by messing around trying to understand why some feeds were automatically downloading and others were not.
Final grade for FeedReader as an automated podcatcher is really rather dismal - however, I did like the feel of it as a simple feed reader.
- 3 points for each criteria met. 1 point for a partial, and none for a strike.
- Ignore non-enclosure posts: 0
- Configure download location: 3
- Configurable trash collection system: 0
- Automatic ID3 editing: 0
- Configure number of feeds scanned during sync: 0
- Configure number of items downloading at one time: 0
- Ability to set an upper limit on bandwith being used: 0
- Import OPML: 3
- Export OPML: 3
Total: 9/27 or a 33.4% or an utter failure!
Next up is ZiePod.
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