{"id":592,"date":"2011-08-01T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=592"},"modified":"2011-08-01T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T16:02:12","slug":"listening-to-battleaxenetwork-podcasts-in-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Listening to BattleAxeNetwork podcasts in Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have started listening to the GoodTimesWithMo Podcasts for those dead-air moments during my every day travel\/commute. The new Android phone provided a good vehicle for listening to the podcasts. Way better than my old (and stolen) Sansa Fuze. The people running the podcasts are pretty much iTunes-specific so here are the steps I did to have the podcasts ready. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install a podcast manager in your Android device. I previously used the discontinued Google Listen but have migrated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shiftyjelly.com\/pocketcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ShiftyJelly&#8217;s PocketCast<\/a> so you can search and install it form the AppMarket.<\/li>\n<li>Go to the www.motwister.com site and copy the link to the Video\/Audio podcast. I dont want my phone to get stolen so I use the audio link: <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/gtwm-audio\">http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/gtwm-audio<\/a>. You can also get an alternative link via the www.battleaxe.network site but I will leave that exercise to the reader.<\/li>\n<li>Launch the Listen application and go to the &#8220;My Subscriptions&#8221; section.<\/li>\n<li>Tap on the &#8220;Add Subscription&#8221; button and enter the link to the podcast feed retrieved in an earlier step.<\/li>\n<li>Tap on the GWTM podcast entry, refreshing as needed, and tap+hold on the episodes that you want to queue.<\/li>\n<li>Once done, go back to the main screen and tap on the &#8220;My listen items&#8221;. Tap\/play the podcast you want to listen to and it will start downloading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some tips and notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google Listen will link up with your Google Reader account. Well it did on my setup. Use a separate podcast manager if you dont want to do this.<\/li>\n<li>Listening to a podcast will buffer and save it locally. Each GWTM podcast comes at around 50MB so be prepared to wait.\n   <\/li>\n<li>My trick is to start a podcast, then pause once it starts playing. Google Listen will keep on downloading the podcast until it completes.<\/li>\n<li>While downloading, I repeat the steps above for the succeeding episodes on the queue. Only one podcast will be downloaded at a time but the application will start the other &#8220;buffering&#8221; episodes once the current one is done. A nice activity to do before you sleep. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you revisit each finished item and remove the local data to free up some more space for the next wave of episodes. Or buy a larger SD card.<\/li>\n<li>Google Listen doesn&#8217;t have the feature of preventing your phone from sleeping. In my experience this means the player will suspend after 60-90 minutes of inactivity.<\/li>\n<li>Google Listen also doesn&#8217;t yet have the feature of moving the local storage to another directory, or importing an already downloaded podcast. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have fun. And also try Gabe Mercado&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/battleaxenetwork.com\/category\/podcasts\/geek-chorus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geek Chorus podcast<\/a> from the BattleAxeNetwork.<\/p>\n<p>ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have started listening to the GoodTimesWithMo Podcasts for those dead-air moments during my every day travel\/commute. The new Android phone provided a good vehicle for listening to the podcasts. Way better than my old (and stolen) Sansa Fuze. The people running the podcasts are pretty much iTunes-specific so here are the steps I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}