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PodSpider Premium
Program for downloading and organizing podcasts

Podspider, no less than its name, it just like a Spider-man, will make you more enjoy your podcast life.
Podspider for Windows offers you a powerful, convenient way to automatically download all of the most important podcasts from around the world directly to your PC.

Why waste time tinkering around with Apple iTunes or podcast portals, when Podspider comfortably and automatically delivers the MP3 and MP4 podcasts you want right to your doorstep?

Try it for FREE!

$19.90

Organized by type (audio or video), language, subject area and category, Podspider's graceful design gives you a lightening quick overview of multiple thousands of podcasts.
Quickly locate podcasts from around the world using simple search criteria, without the troublesome effort of having to visit multiple internet directories.
Fast search, optimized search hit selection and the ability to play podcasts even while they are downloading. Instant gratification brought to you by Podspider and its built-in MiniPlayer. No more complicated fiddling around with Windows Media Player or Apple iTunes QuickTime.
Podspider takes an innovative leap ahead of other solutions with its built-in MiniPlayer, which lets you start listening to the podcasts you've selected even while they are still downloading. The automated synchronization of podcasts to any MP3 player, Apple iPod or mobile phone is also one of Podspider's built-in functions. Podspider's elegant design supports super-easy, intuitive operation, and its technology brings you unlimited hours of entertainment.

Main Function

Installation:

The installation of PodSpider runs almost automatically. Just follow the instructions of the installation program.

Initializing:

Every time the program starts, PodSpider synchronizes with the podcast database on the internet. This procedure can sometimes take some time.

Quick start:

Podcast search: On the Subscribed podcasts tab, click browse. This opens the search dialog.Here you have options to narrow the search. In the Fulltext field you can narrow the selection of shown podcasts through different search patterns (i.e. News). Another search criteria is Theme and Category. Choose first Theme, then Category, and if you want, also, a sub-category for the desired station. You can also select a specific language for the podcasts. When you want to listen to, for example, only German podcasts, then choose German in the Language field. Now only German podcasts will be listed.All these search methods can be used cumulatively to return very precise results.
Subscribe to podcasts: Select the podcast that you want to download from the search results. Click on Subscribe auto. Now the newest episodes of the selected podcast will be automatically downloaded. As soon as this podcast receives new episodes, these will also be automatically downloaded.
Listening to the episodes: Open the media files tab, choose the episode you want to listen to and click play..

Manual download of podcasts:

To download additional episodes of a podcast, choose them in the subscribed podcasts tab, and then click on download. The new episodes will now be downloaded and you can listen to them as shown above.

OPML Support:

The new version of PodSpider supports dynamic OPML. A member of a podcast portal may want to arrange all his podcasts from the portal; PodSpider has a function that allows you to set up dynamic OPML links. In the Subscribed podcasts tab click on OPML to open the OPML dialog. Here you can administer your OPML sources. Click on the Add button in the OPML dialog, to open a dialog where you can enter the address that you received from the portal where you are a member. Then click on subscribe. Now all the existing podcasts in OPML will be added to the subscribed podcasts list and PodSpider downloads the newest episodes.

Synchronization with portable devices:

If you own an USB-MP3 Player, PodSpider can transfer downloaded episodes onto the MP3-Player. PodSpider can also synchronize the downloaded episodes with the ones on the portable device.

MP3 Player setup: Connect your MP3 Player to the USB port of your computer. Click on the Media files tab. When you click for the first time on Synchronization, an options dialog will be opened, which you can open later from the options toolbar. In this dialog you can select your MP3 Player device where the episodes will be transferred. You can also specify a sub-folder that PodSpider should use for synchronization. You can define a storage limit which PodSpider will consider when it synchronizes with the MP3 Player.
Synchronize: If the MP3 Player is connected and the device correctly set up as described above, PodSpider will recognize the episodes saved on the player. PodSpider marks the episodes with an appropriate symbol, based on whether the episodes exist on the player, the computer or on both sides. To transfer a file to the player, mark the file in PodSpider and click on Export. If you want to delete the file from the player, click on “Clear”. The file will remain saved on your computer. With the delete button you can permanently delete the file from both local machine and portable device.