podcasts... somewhat oddly

[schettj]

This is a work in progress, and I'll document it if anyone cares, but here's the basic idea

* already getting podcasts downloaded nightly on my main machine (a linux server, which makes the rest of this a bit simpler)

* want to be able to simply dump 'recent' podcasts to my ppc6700 on the way out the door in the morning (bonus points, have them automatically download at night)

Ok, so this is pretty simple to do, all you need to do is generate a podcast on your machine that's downloading podcasts - of the 'recent' podcasts its downloaded
- I do this with a crontab job that makes symbolic links of the most recent 7 days of podcast mp3s to a folder accessable by my web server. That folder also has a modified version of the dircaster.php script in it (google it...)

So, basically I have a podcast available on my local network of the most recent 7 days worth of podcasts I've received. Cool.

On the ppc, I installed http://www.podcastready.com windows mobile client (free)... deleted all the feeds it had, added my local feed, and hey presto I can download the most recent podcasts (via wifi) with just a tap.

Anyone care for a detailed writeup? If not, at least know that the podcastready client is free and not too bad.