Organizing Podcasts

[UberLucid]

I am trying to find a good way to organize my Podcasts, on my PC. It seems that the various podcast client (Doppler, ipodder, nimiq, etc) don't pay much attention to what podcasts do to your library in iTiunes. After downloading a buch of podcasts last night, I now have tons of playlists, many artists, albums, genre's, etc that I don't wanna see in my library. So, any ideas as to which podcast client could help me by sending my casts to itunes with specified tag info, and all into ONE playlist? podcasts are great, but only if I can keep them organized and in control...and me having to edit all the tags and the playlists kind of defeats the purpose, which is rss->iPod....

any suggestions? which clients are PC users using most?

Thanks!!
-Lucid

[aethiolas]

Good luck man, I love downloading podcasts because I listen to a lot of them but it does kill your library. This is my method and if you have a better one I've DEFINITELY up to hearing it b/c this isn't that great. When your songs come in make sure that they are in the correct playlist for the Podcast that you want them to be and make sure it didn't create a new playlist. Change ALL podcasts to use the genre of podcast or speech whichever your prefer and change the artist to podcast. Then Change the name of the "song" to start off with the date and then the name of the show. This will cut down on having to scroll through all those artists. Also it will make it easier to choose the date you want to listen to. Anyway hope that helps a tad bit, yes its a little bit of work but I haven't found any easier way yet.

Also I use iPodder, not for any particular reason just b/c I downloaded it first and it works.

[UberLucid]

Thanks for the suggestion, I am doing something similar, but wish it was a little more automated. It would be great to plug my iPod in at night, wake up with my new podcasts and my library be clean and organized! There is a client, doppler, that let's you specify a default playlist, but you can't edit tags....and there is a client, can't remember, that let's you edit tags, but not playlists, a combo of each would be great!

I'm sure we'll see some great software start popping up...this is such a new thing, we're lucky to have what we have!!!

-Lucid

[iPeed]

Uber, maybe you just got crossed up, but Doppler supports retagging, but as far as I can tell it doesn't let you specify a default playlist. If you know of a way to make Doppler send PodCasts to a default playlist, please let me know.

[UberLucid]

sorry, must have got confused...

I e-mailed the devs of nimiq and hopefully we'll see this functionality soon!

[isoiso]

doppler seems to be the software to use - you can confugure it to convert all mp3 to bookmarking tracks - heaven. Also, confugure it to automatically name all downloads podcast or speech, or artist podcast etc..
Using smart playlists it is then easy to specify old podcast, new podcasts etc.