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iTunes 4.9 with podcasts (sorta)

June 28, 2005

Apple has released iTunes 4.9.

Unless you’ve been in a hype-proof cave somewhere for the past two weeks, you probably won’t be suprised to learn that it does indeed come with podcast support.

Well, half-assed podcast support, anyway.

Apple offers a list of 3000 or so “blessed” podcasts via the iTunes Music Store, or you can add a podcast manually, if you can figure out the interface.

There is no support for doing some of the handy things a decent podcast client (like iPodderX) can do, like choose a playlist to automatically add a program to, convert it to AAC, or make it bookmarkable (the latter being exceedingly useful for spoken word podcasts.)

Even the stuff that is supported appears to be a bit wonky; it took me 3 times of shutting down and restarting iTunes 4.9 before clicking on the “Podcast Directory” button under Podcasts actually took me to the Podcast Directory, instead of the front page of iTMS.

Once I picked a Podcast and set it to download, it failed due to network issues — perhaps they weren’t ready for initial demand?

I assume they’ll get it all sorted out by and by, but in the meantime, I won’t be deleting my copy of iPodderX anytime soon.

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2 Responses to “iTunes 4.9 with podcasts (sorta)”

  1. Vocino.com on June 28th, 2005 6:40 pm

    iTunes Podcasts & World Domination

    Apple, why not just buy iPodderX? Throw them a bone. I can’t see myself ever using this elegant application again but I can’t help but feel that they have been robbed in some way.

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  2. no imagedekay (Check me out!) on June 30th, 2005 4:14 am

    Actually all podcasts are bookmarkable - even non-AAC ones!

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