Following my post on which podcasts I prefer, I thought It would make sense for me to make a quick post on how to listen to them using your HTC Touch Diamond. At first I thought I could handle the whole process by only using my phone but we’re not quite there yet unfortunately. Here’s my setup along with podcast tip of the day: TV2 podcasts.

When you look through your list of programs, your podcasting needs seem to actually be fulfilled when you find the application RSS Hub. I added all my news and podcast feeds and thought everything would run smoothly. Unfortunately, RSS Hub seems to put files where they don’t belong or somehow delete them even though they are marked unread. So, in stead of fiddling around with never versions (see xda-developers) I thought I’d just use a normal podcatcher since my phone is plugged into my computer all day at work anyway…

My podcatcher of choice for this purpose? Juice (formerly iPodder) is an open-source podcatcher which does exactly what it’s supposed to do and not much more. I installed it on my machine (I plan to run it directly off the phone soon) and set the download library to the phone. Note that Juice won’t start up if the phone is not connected (and in Disk mode). You could set it up to download them to a folder and copy them, but this is cleaner and doesn’t fill up your machine.

How do you do it? Is your RSS Hub working as it should?

Additional podcast tip (for Danes)
Apparently, very few people are aware of the fact the TV2 (largest danish TV station) actually make some of their shows available as podcasts! If you, like me, have a lot of time on your hands, it’s quite nice to catch the news on your way home. Here’s the list of shows:

TV 2 Nyhederne (lyd) i iTunes
TV 2 Nyhederne (video) i iTunes
TV 2 Nyhederne med kapitler
TV 2 Nyhederne som mp3
TV 2 Nyhederne som video
Station 2 (video) i iTunes
Station 2 Ekstra (video) i iTunes
Station 2 som video
Station 2 Ekstra som video
Superbowl Update (video) i iTunes
Superbowl Update som video
LPS (video) i iTunes
LPS som video
Dags Dato (video) i iTunes
Dags Dato som video
TV 2 Sputnik Film (i iTunes)
TV 2 Sputnik Film

You can find the actual links here. Now I’ll sit back and watch Dags Dato about why Americans actually vote for John McCain…