Tip of the day: Open Podcasts with the Music Player

I love podcasts. I listen to them every single day! In a previous post here I had talked about them and how to get the most out of them.  Fact is however that some podcasts are long and I do mean long. I’m talking about 2 hours long and in some cases you can’t listen to them all the way through. In my case I listen to these long podcasts in chunks of 30minutes or less with the usual pause in between. I used to just open these podcasts with the Nokia Podcasting app, but in some cases where I would accidentally close the app or had to restart the phone I would be left wondering where I was. With the latest devices things have gotten a lot easier as the Music Player divides your tunes from your podcasts. Better yet, in the case that you need to close the Music player, it will remember where you left of. So next time, download your podcasts with the Podcasting app, but play them with the Music Player!

Update:  Devices like the N95 8GB, N81 and N82 include the updated Podcasting app version 1.10.1 in the ROM software. The podcasting team is indicating that compared to the older version 1.03 that is currently available for download “There are some minor bug fixes and work done to improve the battery life, but the main value is that the text is now localized to the country languages.” This is handy for those older devices that don’t have the updated app in the ROM. This update should go up this week, so stay tuned.

Comments

[Niels]

I have some problems with longer podcasts in m4a format. Towards the end of the podcast the sound becomes bad, where it seems like it skips like an old record player. It is quite annoying and makes it difficult to listen to. This does not happen in the beginning of the podcast. Is this problem common?

[Steve Robbo]

I couldn't listen to podcasts on anything apart from my N95 now.

It's great to be able to download as soon as the podcast becomes available, and wherever I am I can listen to it - in short sections if I wish.

Without Nokia and BBC podcasts, I'd be stuck.