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March 11, 2005
I'm home in bed today but I had to get this idea out onto paper before I forgot about it. Like my friend John, I've recently been getting into podcasting. While I don't have an iPod, I listen to the shows at work during the day while I'm getting stuff done - I was one of those people who concentrated better WITH music. It blocked out the part of my brain that would get distracted with something else.
Anyway, I've been listening to a few shows while lying down and can't help but think that it would be cool to be able to listen to these on my Tivo. With a young son, we don't want to watch TV all the time but sometimes it's nice to play music in the background and catchig up on radio would be great as well. Until Tivo has software to use and record from a USB AM/FM tuner, why not create a Podcast application that, in addition to downloading shows for someone's iTunes player, also queues them up to the Tivo Home Media Environment for listening to.
Basically, such an application would auto-share the downloaded MP3 files and take the metadata from the RSS feeds to allow you to see what show it is as well as the tags from the MP3. Then I could pop over to my Tivo and start a show whenever.
If you're into time shifting radio, try Replay Radio.
Replay Radio lets you record ANY Radio station broadcast over the Web as an MP3 file, and then copy it to your iPod or other MP3 player. It will even burn CDs automatically.
Replay Radio comes with a database of over 900 shows and 1200 stations, and you can easily add your own.
One more cool feature: with the optional Replay Player, when you listen on your PC you can easily skip over the ads. (If you use an iPod, just hold down the Next Track button to fast forward.)
Check it out! A free trial is available from here:
www.replay-radio.com
Enjoy!
I must be missing something here. You already have the ability to listen to MP3s via Home Media. I'm using iPodder to subscribe to podcasts. It stores the downloaded podcast MP3s in a folder. I point Home Media to that folder and mostly listen to them via the TiVo.
It seems the only thing you could hope to add over the standard home Media feature set is some sort of advanced UI for either subscribing to podcasts or doing file management - deleting, marking as listened, etc...