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Juice 2.2, an open source rss media aggregator, seems to work fairly well. However, it is open source… which in my experience, typically means that the user interface is a bit quirky. Wonky. Strange. Obtuse. It is kind of like the difference between an actress and your sister. Both are pretty, but one isn’t quite as polished.
Sorry, no offense to your sister.
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I have this funny niggling feeling that I did this more than once already. That I tried out a whole passel of rss aggregator with varying media enclosure capabilities, and that I found nothing worked sufficiently well to replace iTunes or Zune.
First off, my criteria. I want to be able to plug a feed in and have the media content found immediately. I want the option to determine how many files to download, where to store them, how long to keep the media, and one of my kickers, I want to be able to automatically change the ID3 information to match the feed and the fact that I am downloading PODCASTS!
Rant time. I am listening to podcasts and you are putting out podcasts. They are podcasts, not “blues” or “voice” or “audio drama” or whatever the frog else you deludedly put into the genre description. If you are Leo Leporte, then you can call it a “netcast” but that’s it. Other than that, it is a freaking PODCAST!! Why in the world is this so frelling hard for PODCASTERS to understand? HUH!?! Argh. Rant, off…
Still more criteria. I want to be able to control how many feeds are scanned for new content, how many files are being downloaded contiguously, and how much bandwidth is being consumed. And I almost forgot that it has to be able to import AND export OPML files.
That’s pretty much it for requirements, at least for now. I’ve got more items on my wish list, but since I cannot even find a single podcatcher/rss aggregator that can handle my criteria I should probably not be greedy.
Next time we’ll start with a look at Juice, formerly known as iPodder. Which is merely to say that is has a pedigree.
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