How I listen to Podcasts

Of the 24 podcasts I currently subscribe to, I probably only make a deliberate effort to listen to about 5 or 6 of them regularly. Late at night, before the sandman arrives, I’ll listen to one or two in bed on my Nokia N95. It is a pain at the best of times manually adding podcast urls to the N95 as there is no way, that I can tell, to add them using either the old Nokia Data Suite or the newer, Nokia Ovi Suite of applications.

So, here was my solution.

I set-up a Google Reader account, and added all the RSS podcast streams to a folder called Podcasts.  I then made this “Podcasts” folder available to the public in the “Manage Subscriptions → Folders & Tags” section.  Head back to the Google Reader front page, clicked on the Podcasts folder and then on the “Show Details” button.  This now presents me with a Feed URL which in my case is:

http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F16063141383103939780%2Flabel%2FPodcasts

Obviously, that doesn’t look too pretty, so I lob the url into notepad and do a quick find and replace, changing %2F to a /

My URL now looks like:

http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/16063141383103939780/label/Podcasts

I’ve added that URL into my Web Feeds folder in my Nokia N95 so it will pull down any and all podcasts I subscribe to the “Podcasts” folder of my Google Reader account. This makes the addition, (and removal, if necessary) of any new podcasts I want to subscribe to much easier and comes without any of the messiness of adding or changing anything on the N95 with it’s small keypad.

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