So one of the things I genuinely love and couldn’t live without now on my N95 is the podcasting application (it’s actually a podcatcher, but lets not go there). What I love is that it aggregates the podcasts i like and can update them over wifi, this means I always have the latest episodes and always have something new and interesting to listed to on my phone. Now one of the biggest challenges I have is getting the podcast RSS feed in my phone, once you’ve manually typed out one RSS feed url like http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13 you will be desperate for another way to get podcasts on your phone. Well here’s my workflow (this is dependent on you having the very useful google toolbar installed on your browser).
first get the podcasting application www.nokia.co.uk/podcasting
- Click on “send to” on the google tool bar choose SMS
- Copy and paste the rss url in the pop up window
- On your phone now open the text message and choose forward
- Choosing forward gives you a editable version of the message, now hold down the edit key* (the pencil icon) and use the joystick to highlight the url, and use the soft key to choose “copy”
- Switch to the podcasting application, choose add podcast, which will bring up a text field, now hold the the edit key again and choose the soft key “Paste”
Sound arduous but it’s really fast with some practice and certainly quicker than trying to type out an RSS url 
Some things I’d love to see in future podcasting applications:
- The ability to record and post audio to a podcast/website
- The ability to have it detect what wifi zone i’m in and choose the best one (right now you have to set it manually
- some way to use my web browser to manage my podcasts and have that show up on my phone
- some rules for how long to keep podcasts, like 5 most recent, or delete after x amount of time (with the ability to override for certain episodes
These are the podcasts on my phone right now:
- The daily source code of course
- the radio 4 show In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg (this show will simultaniously make you feel smart and stupid at the same time
- Fresh Air with Terry Gross
- This American Life
- American Copywriter
- You Look Nice Today
- the RCRD Label podcasts
Oh, another feature for the podcasting app, the ability to publish my podcast list to the web, or email it to myself
What are you listening to?
Oh and if you didn’t know I do work for Nokia, but that’s not why I wrote this and I have no association with the group responsible for the Podcasting Application.
Here’s the location of the Edit key that unlocks the copy and paste function, but i’m sure you knew that
I think http://opmlmanager.com/ is the easiest way to get your preffered podcast to your Nokia podcasting application. Just create your own opml-file and add that as a directory to the podcasting applications
The better way to manage your podcasts in device, is use an public url from Google Reader.
In Google Reader page go to Settings>Tags and choose a specific tag to save all your podcasts. You must define this tag as public, for example: this is my public url with all my podcasts feeds in GReader: http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/17704166492299230643/label/Podcasts
When I get a subscription to a new podcast the content for this url is updated. I have just one adress to manage all my podcasts in any client or device as well.