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After a few weeks evaluating the ITunes podcasting support, I have decided to have a radical re-think, here are some of the facts.

 First I'm not happy with many of my experiences with podcasts and ITunes, all sorts of issue have seem to arisen, that did not with IPodderx.

 I am also not convinced that my IPod is the best tool for many of my none musical podcast subscriptions.

 ITunes and my IPod however work just great for my static music collection.

 I have recently purchased a Sony Ericsson K750i phone and added 0.5Gb memory card

Given these facts this is the way I intend moving forward :

 I will keep my music collection and musical podcasts (like speechless, highly recommended by the way) under ITunes and synced with IPod, It performs admirably for this type of usage. Click here to access the object that's linked to this item.

 I will revert to using IPodderx for my talk/speech type podcast subscriptions, limiting the 'SmartSize' to it's minimum 0.5Gb. I can then synchronise the Ipodderx download folder with my K750i disk mount via the USB cable.

 Thus all my speech podcast (like Gilmour gang, MCN and ITC) will be on the mobile phone and thus available wherever I go. The main caveat here is to stay on top of the podcasts as SmartSpace will delete the older episodes as it manages the space limit.

There are however a few things that could make this better :

 1) Having SmartSpace be able to go lower than 0.5Gb as it doesnt leave much room for my photos on the phone!! R U listeneing IPodderx devs :)

 2) Haven't worked out the best syncing method yet, I could just use rsync etc.. biut would like to kick it off when I plug the phone in automatically, any ideas out there?

 3) It would be great to somehow have the episodes I have listened to fed back to IPodderx automatically rather than having to mark them read or whatever. There is an opportunity for a java podcast player type app here that runs on the phones.. how about that IPodderx devs ?

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