Using "Favorites Center" Feeds to download podcasts w/ Vista

[Rhino Chaser]

I recently purchased Podspider to DL my podcasts. Podspider works pretty well, however, it seems to drop my feeds randomly--which is a total pain. Also, I still needed to use the Zune desktop to sync the files to my device.

So on a hunch I started messing with the RSS Feed tab under favorites.

I went to the website that hosts my favorite podcast and found the page with the links to the podcasts. I then clicked on the "lit" rss icon and hit the link to subscribe.

Then I opened my feed tab under favorites, right clicked on the feed and selected properties.

In the window that pops, check the box next to "automatically download attached files."

I played with my settings and decreased the intervals, and waited. Then I reopened the window and hit the button to view files...sure enough my podcast was in there and drag-able for syncing...

You could mess with your zune library settings to automate the process even futher.

I am still experimenting and playing with this feature, so I don't have much more to offer at this point.

I am not sure how old this news is, but I love figuring things like this out!!

[Peench]

Great news! What's a "favorite"? I need to find some other way to get my podcasts since juice is jacked up for some reason. Every time I want to run it I have to re-install it. Not sure how it got messed up. Maybe I'll check the "bookmark" RSS thing in Firefox and see if that will work. I'd want something automated though.

[Rhino Chaser]

I am using the star on the upper left of IE 7--it has the RSS feature.

I just tried it with my XP platform at work. I didn't DL anything but the setup looks the same.

So I was incorrect, it must be a feature of IE 7 and not related to XP or Vista.