New Zune podcast subscriptions

[Crippler]

In the gear up to the launch of the 2nd gen Zunes, 1-click podcast subscriptions has been revealed on Zuneinsider.com.

Podcasters can now plan to display a Zune icon or chicklet graphic on their websites to enable an easy “1-Click Podcast Subscription” process for podcast listeners or viewers. This 1-Click process will launch the new Zune Marketplace software and place the podcast subscription in the users collection. The process will work best if the Zune user already has the new Zune Marketplace software loaded on a Windows PC, but if not already installed, will then ask user to download the software. The podcast feed does not need to be in the Zune Marketplace for the link to work.

Sweet. Now hurry up and get here Nov. 13th.

[Lord Geoff]

F-ing Sweet! It is about time. Until now, the only place I had seen content for zunes was at www.on10.net, a Microsoft site. I am really looking forward to not having to find my podcasts in the artist list and not getting podcasts when I hit shuffle all for my music. I have always thought that the support for non-music audio tracks should have been there from day one or added early. I didn't ever expect to be waiting a year for that feature.

[Rhino Chaser]

So this is one of the updates for the that will affect Gen1 as well?

Maybe I can bring mine back into circulation again!

[Lord Geoff]

Originally Posted by Rhino Chaser

So this is one of the updates for the that will affect Gen1 as well?

Maybe I can bring mine back into circulation again!

Correct! I think the only major thing that the Zune 30 won't be getting is h264 (or whatever the format name is) support, as there is some sort of hardware limitation.

[Rhino Chaser]

My iPhone seems to be having trouble with H264 as well. So I have encoded most of my video library in MPEG4 anyway...much more universal.