I hate the internet!

[cyrano]

Is there somebody on my flist who deals with podcasts? (I suspect Clay does, actually...) I'm trying to find out if there's a way I can listen to stuff like the VaudCast or This American Life/Wait Wait Don't Tell Me/Car Talk from NPR on my mp3 player, and my head is full of snot and I'm feeling really stupid and worse to worst on my day off I'll plug the Rio into the desktop and tinker and see if I can make the IntarWeb serve my bidding.
I'm a fucking child of the digital age. This should not be such a hassle.

Comments

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

If you already have iTunes on your desktop, and you have all the podcasts automatically loading there, you might be able to just copy/paste them to the Rio interface, or even drag/drop.

I was pleasantly surprised at iTunes when I was moving stuff to my Treo, I was able to make a playlist based on some criteria, then select all/copy in the iTunes window, and then paste into the file window (representing the memory card). I know the rio has a specialized interface too so you may have to drag/drop or copy/paste to a temporary location and then drag into rio.

I'm pretty sure this would work for audio, but I'm guessing that video would confuse Rio unless it is already video-OK. Good luck.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Nah, the Rio's audio only, and I have good interface between musicmatch and the Rio so I imagine I wouldn't have any troubles if I downloaded iTunes.