Can I use iTunes to handle the music on my iPod Touch, but use another program (gPodder, Juice) to handle podcasts?

February 9, 2010 5:50 AM

Can I use iTunes to handle the music on my iPod Touch, but use another program (gPodder, Juice) to handle podcasts?

I'm more or less happy with iTunes for music and playlists, but I'm not very fond of how it deals with podcasts. I'm especially tired of losing episodes of podcasts when iTunes decides to stop updating them if I haven't listened to an episode in a while. (E.g., the In Our Time feed only has one episode up at any given time; if iTunes decides to stop updating and I don't catch it, I can't just click "Get Episode" to get the older one.)

Will iTunes play nice with another piece of software, or am I going to run into them fighting, trying to overwrite one another's data, etc.? After using gPodder or Juice to put podcasts on my iPod Touch, is iTunes going to prompt me to restore?

posted by JoshTeeters to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

NetNewsWire (Mac only, I think) can take attachments to an RSS feed---such as mp3s from a podcast---and download them automatically into iTunes. I have it also set to set the 'genre' of all such downloads to "Podcast". After that, I have iTunes set to include a selection of my downloaded podcasts on my ipod as just another playlist.
posted by FlyingMonkey at 8:39 AM on February 10, 2010

Response by poster: I'm on Windows, so NetNewsWire won't work for me (alas). Any other ideas?
posted by JoshTeeters at 11:06 AM on February 10, 2010