Brainwagon Radio: Podcasting via CompactFlash, and Google Talk

August 24, 2005 | Brainwagon Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

Today’s podcast gives some information about my experiments with getting podcasts transferred to a CompactFlash card so I can listen to them using my Dell Axim x50v PDA, which I also use to record podcasts.

  • This post on Social Customer Manifesto detailed how one guy used a cheapy mp3 player in a pretty creative way. The player simply looked like a harddrive, so he installed Doppler on it, configured it to save podcasts to the same drive, and then created an AUTORUN.INF file so that when it is inserted. There is one big problem though: Windows XP doesn’t automatically run AUTORUN stuff from removeable drives. You can hack the registry to get around it, but instead I just configured my podcasting client to save to the CompactFlash “drive”, and dropped a shortcut on my desktop. Now, to update my CompactFlash I jam it in my reader slot, double click on the icon to run Doppler, and then wait for it to fill it up. Not too bad.
  • The pity is that I really prefer iTunes, especially their new podcasting support, which I find really decent. I suppose I could try configuring it in the same way, but instead I tried using SyncToy, a new gadget from Microsoft that copies one directory over to another. It worked, but didn’t really streamline my workflow over the other method.

    • Comments

    Comment from Steven
    Time 8/30/2005 at 1:26 pm

    I enjoy the podcasts on the hacker topics. I seem to be too busy with house renovations to do much hacking but maybe in a few months I will follow your lead on the robot project you blogged a while ago on – is it on the shelf or are you still working on it?