Comments on: PodNova and Podcast Subscriptions

By: Wesley Fryer

Wesley Fryer — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:19:02 +0000

I didn’t know iTunes supported OPML export. I’ll have to check this out, this feature must have been added to iTunes in the last 6-12 months?

By: Oren Golan

Oren Golan — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:37:07 +0000

I have just imported my 50 Itunes podcasts into PodNova in 1 minute.

This is the trick -
1. Export your Itunes to OMPL file.
2. Open this file with notepad and add title=”" to every ‘outline’ XML tag.

Now you can easily import the file using File/Import in PodNova.

By: Britn Gross

Britn Gross — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:10:07 +0000

Hi guys! More than one year i had iTunes.And i agree with Wesley Fryer that iTunes does not support OMPL.

By: J. Ross

J. Ross — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:05:53 +0000

Can you point me to a program that will allow me to aggregate all new podcast downloads into one folder so I can then easily place them on my non-iPod MP3 player?

I subscribe to about 20 podcasts and I would like to be able to move them to my MP3 player every couple of days. As it stands now, I use JUICE which places each podcast in a separate folder which I manually open to move the file. This is very time consuming.

Thank you for any assistance – [ Jeff ]

By: Wesley Fryer

Wesley Fryer — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:55:28 +0000

Ah, yes. Sadly I don’t think that is correct. I faced the same issue migrating to podnova, having to resubscribe… It was a pain. I am doubting Apple is going to support OMPL import/export but who knows, maybe they will? It is an open standard. It would be great if they would, and if they (or someone) would provide a handy way to share your current podcast subscriptions via OPML through iWeb.

By: Dean Shareski

Dean Shareski — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:11:32 +0000

I realize that. I wanted a way to easily take my existing subscriptions from itunes without manually entering them into Podnova. Can Podnova import from itunes?

By: Wesley Fryer

Wesley Fryer — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:25:40 +0000

iTunes does not support OMPL importing, but PodNova does, and PodNova supports iTunes. So you can import / export OPML with PodNova and then use it to sync iTunes.

By: Dean Shareski

Dean Shareski — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:36:54 +0000

This was almost what I wanted but alas, as you state itunes does not support opml or xml importing/exporting. I did find this hack that may do it but again, it’s MAC only so it doesn’t help me but you might find it helpful.
http://log.hugoschotman.com/hugo/2005/06/opml2itunes_app.html

By: erik

erik — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:41:08 +0000

Hello Wesley,

Thank you for the nice writeup about our service, it’s very much appreciated. I would like to point out that we would love to support ogg-vorbis but at the moment we are using a macromedia flash based player and the flash runtime only supports mp3′s at the moment (they even have to be in a special encoding). Hopefully this will change in future versions of the flash runtime.

regards,

Erik