HOW-TO: Get Podcasts and Videos on Windows Mobile Smartphones

[Jerry Raia]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000390023915/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000390023915/</a><br /><br /></div>"This week’s HOW-TO is what we hope will be a trend, a venerable avalanche of other how-to’ers which will help people get content like web videos, Internet radio shows (podcasts), and other media automatically delivered to their phones. For our example, we’re going to use free tools to get the Engadget show and popular web videos sent over to a Windows Mobile-powered Smartphone, specifically an Audiovox SMT 5600 Smartphone (Orange SPV C500)."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/smph.JPG" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/><br /><br />I like the idea of HOW-TO's. Even though this one uses Media Player 10 it says it also can be done with Media Player 9 phones as well.

[MS Mobiles]

hi guys ! why don't you (at Smartphone Thoughts) make a Podcast about Microsoft Smartphone yourself ! it is just recording audio to MP3 files, putting them on server and updating RSS file with enclosures.

if you need help, I can help with it!

[Mike Temporale]

Although PodCasting is getting very popular, I'm not a big fan. I like text better for a number of reasons. Mainly, it's searchable - so you can quickly and easily find the information you're looking in an article. This isn't too easy with audio files. :D

[MS Mobiles]

Mainly, it's searchable - so you can quickly and easily find the information you're looking in an article. This isn't too easy with audio files. :D

MP3 files are also searchable:

a) ID3 tags inside of MP3 files

b) (yet) external OPML files that some podcasters are attaching that show when various parts start - in textual form (special XML format).

[joefuture]

I echo the negative opinion... Podcasts are cute, but I'd rather have an RSS newsreader that could read the news to me via text-to-speech while I drive home. The only podcast I listen to is the DotNetRocks show (http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks). In general, I think I can absorb a much wider breadth of news via RSS than having to sit through a podcast w/ advertisements and more useless banter than content.

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