bkdelong

I'm home in bed today but I had to get this idea out onto paper before I forgot about it. Like my friend John, I've recently been getting into podcasting. While I don't have an iPod, I listen to the shows at work during the day while I'm getting stuff done - I was one of those people who concentrated better WITH music. It blocked out the part of my brain that would get distracted with something else.

Anyway, I've been listening to a few shows while lying down and can't help but think that it would be cool to be able to listen to these on my Tivo. With a young son, we don't want to watch TV all the time but sometimes it's nice to play music in the background and catchig up on radio would be great as well. Until Tivo has software to use and record from a USB AM/FM tuner, why not create a Podcast application that, in addition to downloading shows for someone's iTunes player, also queues them up to the Tivo Home Media Environment for listening to.

Basically, such an application would auto-share the downloaded MP3 files and take the metadata from the RSS feeds to allow you to see what show it is as well as the tags from the MP3. Then I could pop over to my Tivo and start a show whenever.

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