Listen to podcasts with RSSRadio Mobile [Useful software for iOS]

With the development of broadband Internet in Russia is becoming more and more popular new type of media - podcast-s. One interesting when I talked recently. And a little review provoked conversation with several readers who wrote me an email about your interest in podcasting, podcasts, and about the hard fraction aydevaysov owner rarely having access to the "big brother".

Such conversations for me is not a novelty. Some time ago the iPhone has made a certain revolution in the minds of people, habits, and many make life easier. The latter I consider himself. And it's not in some kind of idolatrous love for Apple products, I'm sober gaze around him, and to the example of Apple, the TV hardly buy (well, except that, at a symbolic price), but the iPhone has presented an opportunity to actively living people are often forced to be on duty outside home or office that is filtering mails, view and edit documents, go to the chat room, and, returning to the topic: listen to and record podcasts. And more recently, all these opportunities abound with the advent of the iPad.

I've already talked about working with photos "In field conditions." And now, do yourself a mark in the above-mentioned conversation, I want to talk about the program to listen to and view podcasts on iPad & iPhone.

Many immediately say: And what can I say? He added rss-streams in iTunes, downloaded and "threw" in your aydevays synchronization.

That's right. But I would like to draw your attention to what I mentioned about people who do not have the opportunity (and perhaps will) often connect iOS-devices to "Big Brother". There is a rather big part of citizens simply do not like iTunes, for various reasons, but in the iPod. App iOS to add a rss-stream directly impossible. What to do? And here we turn to RSSRadio application.

It's a universal app - Player podcasts. It allows you to choose something interesting, from a list of streams to find the podcast on the keywords to import subscriptions from your iPod or add your own from a URL.

Browse the list we sweep aside as a podcast to find in Russian practically no chance (though owning inyaz or uchaschim language, a good practice), but the addition of hand - that is necessary. Thus, if you listen to podcasts on mobile devices only, or planned a long trip, you can distribute the links and provide a transmission and news.

By the way, you can also divide the tasks by priority. For example, I was in RSSRadio added news flows from the News. Net (video) and Radio "Ekho Moskvy" (audio), which would be able to view / listen to news on the go or sitting somewhere waiting.

On the stationary computer to me these tapes do not need and add them to iTunes washed there. But great podcasts I just go to iTunes and synced to the iPad + iPhone. The reason is simple: for news more important than momentary, this makes sense to listen to them during the day or days (if we are on the way). And entertaining, educational and analytical podcasts, "not sour" and a week or two. But in this mode using RSSRadio certainly need to think about the Internet access. When traveling (especially abroad) should keep this in mind, and to put the boot in the settings only through Wi-Fi, and only on-demand updates. Otherwise, you can then "unpleasantly surprised" as a tourist swung "Interns" with Sims "Megaphone" on holiday in Turkey.

After finishing a rather big introduction, let's talk about the program. So, when you start adding subscriptions, as we said above, manually or export. For the convenience of tape can be sorted by category, as well as create playlists.

At the bottom of the program window, we can see four tabs button

• Subscriptions - a list of your podcasts to which you have subscribed. Icon immediately easy to identify video or audio podcast. In the list we see the name of the tape, mini-description (if it is equipped with a podcast), and the number of issues is not tapped. Clicking on the title, go to the full list of podcasts, where a number of new releases will mark indicating that: - the downloaded podcast - podcast does not listen to. The number of downloaded podcasts, checking the tape, you can specify in the settings, and if the number is greater than planned, the "extra" skachivatsya will not, but will appear in the list. They can be handed to upload by clicking the appropriate button in the podcast menu. After listening, the issue can be removed or left to re-treatment (of your choice). At the bottom of the full list of issues, there are two buttons: mark all as preview and update the list. The top two subvkladki: - the list itself, and - personal settings of the tape. Thus we have the opportunity to stand as a global setting for all podkstov and individual for each tape.
• Playlists - As you probably already understand from the name, there is a list of your playlists, which are created topics can listen to podcasts groups, setting sorting from the most recent to the oldest or on the contrary. A good tool for group or short news podcasts. But in general, I make much sense in the playlists for podcasting can not see and did not use it.
• Downloads - This is a list of active downloads. There anything that can be seen only at the time of downloading updates. Of action: the ability to pause downloading (pause) You can see the volume occupied by the downloaded files, and the total amount of free space on your aydevase. Sometimes it is useful to not mindlessly hammer device podcasts that you are not listening.
• Settings - Global application settings. Here you can specify the category of podcasts, customized download mode, update period, autostart, and configure additional listening control buttons, which are slightly lower.

Now about the player. By clicking on the selected issue appears prompting you to listen to the start menu (see) podcast, add to a playlist or remove. You can also protect against accidental deletion and send "email a friend" with reference to the issue of the podcast (by the way the smart thing, which I often do not have enough in the "tuna").

Simple, no-frills player, invites us to the podcast playback, skip to the next and two additional navigation buttons on release. It is their something and can be programmed on the time length of the jump (rewind) or Vered ago. The default is 30 seconds. Reduce or enlarge the races can be in the global settings of the program. And individually. For example, fast forward 30 seconds left, and return to do for 10 seconds.

Plus, of the functions of management, there is not clear to me button to listen to the two-time speed. I've seen similar to hardvarnogo players for audio books, about, This function has always been, and remains a mystery to me.

As you can see, neither of which is complicated, but all you need for a comfortable and listen to podcasts in the kit.

Concluding the review, I would like to add that wonderful player running in the background as an audition, and to download the updates. It has no restrictions on the size of the downloaded podcasts (video tutorials I downloaded editions almost the size of gigabytes), and also has a TV output support for viewing videovypuske.

And another nice moment, RSSRadio has lite-version (ITunes link), in which access to the full functionality of a large version, limited to 3 podcast feeds.

Honestly, I did not have just one, but then I would have fully satisfied the free version (viewing / listening to the news). Well, while you have the opportunity to test, evaluate and decide whether is worth spending 2 bucks, or will be enough built-in player in collaboration with iTunes.

Page in the AppStore:RSSRadio Mobile
Program Website:RSSRadio mobile
Price: $ 1.99 / lite-free
Developer: Daniel Broad (Dorada Software)
System requirements: Firmware 3.1.3 and above
Compatibility: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad (universal)
Interface language: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese,
Describes version: 1.27