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GoogleListen: Get Podcasts On Your Android Phone

abhijeet — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:17:00 +0000

Google Listen is a new app launched recently under Google Labs that allows Android phone users to easily subscribe to web podcasts, search them, download them onto their phone and stream them online. By subscribing to programs and search terms, you can create a listen queue so that you can get a continuous flow of new audio stories which are relevant to your interest. Currently, it supports only English language podcasts/web audio.

Features:

Android podcast app by Google.
Easily subscribe to, search, download and stream podcasts/audio.
Create a listen audio queue based on programs and search terms you subscribed to.
Currently only supports English language.

Check out Google Listen @ http://listen.googlelabs.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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RSSHandler: Convert Youtube RSS to Podcast

abhijeet — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:11:43 +0000

Although each Youtube channel has its own RSS feed and you can subscribe to it easily in any RSS reader, the RSS feed items come as embedded flash players. That means it’s great if you want to view them on the Internet with some online feed reader, but it is not ok for offline viewers who want to view them later without connection to Internet.

RSSHandler is an RSS to podcast converter that aims to solve this problem by converting Youtube RSS feeds to FLV, MP4 and other such computer/mobile friendly formats. You can also get links to YouTube as FLV and MP4 to download videos to your computer or mobile phone via Nokia Mobile Code or short links.

Features

Convert Youtube video feeds to FLV, MP4 or PSP format.
Get Nokia Mobile code for the link to easily copy to your mobile.
Convert Youtube channels, favorites and playlists using this tool.
Subscribe to the converted feed in podcast reader to listen to them.
Similar sites: YouTubePodcaster.

Check out RSSHandler @ www.rsshandler.com/converter (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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PodShifter: Speed Up Podcasts For Faster Play

kaly — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:47:56 +0000

Ever subscribed to a podcast where presenter talked really slow? There are countless of podcasts on the web that would be considerably better if they were presented faster. Same applies to the audio books narrated by a really slow reader. And that’s exactly where PodShifter can help. It can easily make podcasts up to 2 or even 3 times faster.

To speed up a podcast or any other audio feed simply enter its RSS feed, set how much faster/slow you want it to make (from 0.6x to 3x) and hit on the “shift it” button. The application will process you request and give a new revised feed from where you can hear the speed-up version.

Features:

Speed up slow-paced podcasts and audio books.
Speed up as many podcasts as you like.
Customize speed: From 0.6 times upto 3 times.
Works on almost on any RSS feed.
Free, no sign-up required.

Check out PodShifter @ www.podshifter.com (via LH Australia)

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YTPodcaster: Turn YouTube Videos into Video Podcasts

kaly — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:35:14 +0000

YTPodcaster is a YouTube podcaster tool that lets you convert Youtube videos into video podcasts. All you have to do is enter YouTube username into provided field and click on “Get Feed” button. The application will process your query and create a video podcast from 20 most recent YouTube videos posted by that user. Just choose the feed type you want and subscribe to it in your podcast/feed reader.

There is also an option to download videos as MP4 files, or you can select your region and subscribe to any of the standard YouTube feeds (e.g. Most Discussed Today or Most Viewed of All Time) as Video Podcasts.

Features:

Create YouTube videos into a podcast.
Converts 20 most resent videos of supplied username.
YouTube video downloader also supported.
Free and no registration.
Similar sites: YouTubePodcaster.

Check out YTPodcaster @ www.ytpodcaster.com

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Tagoo: Great Audio & Video Search Engine

kaly — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:05:51 +0000

Tagoo is a search engine that lets you to search for media-content: such as mp3 audios, music albums, audiobooks, music videos and podcasts. You can easily stream, watch and download anything Taggo finds.

Additionally users are able to create playlists, share those playlists with friends and access them from any computer.

Furthermore you can interact with other users, check out their playlists, rate them and leave comments. And if you’re really into it, you can even keep your own blog on Tagoo.

Features:

Search and download mp3 songs, music videos, audiobooks, and podcasts.
Search more then 20 million audio and video files.
Refine results by artist, title, album, file name, source, music quality and length.
Create palylists and post blog posts (registered users only).
Check out, rate and comment on other users’ playlists.
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Check out Tagoo @ www.tagoo.ru

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OneMinuteLanguages: Quick Language Podcasts

kaly — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:30:58 +0000

OneMinuteLanguages gives your free podcasts to learn basics phrases from a dozen of popular languages. You can learn words used for greetings, numbers and counting, how to say that you don’t understand something etc. Basically, a bunch of basic phrases.

Currently the sites offers podcasts for 12 different languages: Catalan, Danish, French, German, Irish, Japanese, Luxembourgish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Russian. For each language you get about 10 short easy-to-digest podcasts.

Features:

Learn basics phrases for 12 languages (mostly European languages).
You will get 10 free couple of minute long podcasts for each language.
More languages will be added in the future.
Premium option with more features also available
No sign up or registration needed.

Check out OneMinuteLanguages @ www.oneminutelanguages.com

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VenueM: Turn Podcasts to iPhone-Friendly Websites

abhijeet — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:21:02 +0000

VenueM is a new and free service which could be helpful especially to podcast producers. It lets podcast producers expand their audience to those who are using iPhone or iPod Touch. You just need to enter the RSS feed for the podcast and it will convert it into a website compatible with and suited to viewing on the web browser in iPhone or iPod Touch. It also offers multiple theme colors and embeddable links which can be used on the site.

The site claims to offer Adsense and AdMob advertising integration in future. The site has a clean user interface and you will need to register before you can convert a podcast and use other features mentioned on the site.

While podacsters can use VenueM to make their podcasts iPhone or iPod Touch friendly, regular web users can benefit from it by turning their favorite podcasts to tiny websites.

Check out VenueM @ www.venuem.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds

kaly — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:58:14 +0000

YouTubePodcaster lets you create a podcast feed from YouTube search results. The feed will contain YouTube videos with all videos converted to the MP4 file format. This means you can subscribe to these feeds using your favorite RSS reader, iTunes player and even play they videos on your iPod.

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Features:

Create podcast feeds from submitted YouTube URL.
Create as many podcast feeds as you like.
All videos are converted to the MP4 file format.
Subscribe to these feeds using RSS reader or your iTunes player.
No sign up or registration needed.

See demo video below:

Youtube Podcaster converts Youtube search results to MP4 format but what about converting the videos to MP3 audio tracks. If that sounds something you might be interested in see FLVto, VidToMP3 and Vmeste.fr.

Go to YouTube Podcaster @ www.vixy.net/podcaster

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