Nokia Music Podcast

General Podcasting - March 8th, 2007 - Written by steven.stewart

Just a reminder to check out the Nokia Music Podcast at our other blogspace: www.blogs.s60.com/nokiamusicpodcast

The shows are about 30-40 minutes long with full tracks, song commentaries and interviews with artists from many genres.

We started this show to try to practice what we preach… not only talk about podcasting, but also get hands on experience with all aspects of it. From the concepts, creation, distribution, etc.

It also helps to see different things which can be done in the RSS feeds to add value to the mobile podcast experience… and also the things which are a challenge. (Uh.. choosing “Go to Website” from the mobile takes me to the Music blog, but you have to scroll through a MESS of the side bars before finding the proper content. I think its a problem with the template of Movabletype, but something that still needs work to get a better experience.

But I’ve enjoyed finding podcasts which utilize the COMMENTS in the RSS feed so the mobile link can take you directly to browse or make comments on the device which is cool.

ANYWAY…

You can leave comments for the Nokia Music Podcast about the artists or recommend other “podsafe music” for consideration in upcoming shows as well. Let us know if there is a genre you are aching to hear that we arent hitting yet.

The RSS feed is one of the first defaults of in the FEATURED section of Nokia Podcasting DIRECTORIES.

Here is the RSS feed for the Nokia Music Podcast show to paste into your Nokia Podcasting application or your favourite PC/Mac Podcatcher:
http://blogs.s60.com/nokiamusicpodcast/posts.xml

Thanks for listening.

micah wrote March 19th, 2007 at 4:36 am

I upgraded to 1.00.3 and now while downloading podcasts, the phone become erratic. It appears to freeze, if I hit a key it goes into screensaver mode and I am unable to stop download, switch to any other applications or do anything else. I am forced to remove my battery (holding down the powerbutton doesn’t even turn the device off!). The podcast I am downloading is 29.4megs in size, its via wifi and with firmware 3.0633.09.04.

I downloaded the older 1.00.2 and it doesn’t seem to have this problem.

(I didn’t see any changelog for 1.00.3, what was changed in that release?)

micah wrote March 19th, 2007 at 4:39 am

followup to my previous comment — downgrading to 1.00.2 didn’t actually solve the problem. I was misled because the podcast actually finished downloading, but then the phone ‘froze’. Same symptoms, screensaver comes on, hitting any key deactivates the screensaver, but the phone doesn’t respond to anything else.

John wrote March 22nd, 2007 at 7:15 am

When installing 1.00.3 over 1.00.2 on my N91 the funny thing that happened was that some of the deleted podcasts were sesurected while some active ones went missing. After cleanning the mess up (remove all pocasts, remove media files) and adding the podcasts back all went fine untill last night when after an accidental phone reboot (I’ve found myself pressing the power button) all the podcasts have gone away How the hack can that happen ?

John wrote March 31st, 2007 at 3:37 pm

A new day … a new problem. The batery run flat on my phone today: neep-beep and the phone is off. I’ve put the charger in, boot the phone and guess what … the podcast subscriptions are missing, again. I have to start searching and type in all those long URLs … but it is going to be for the last time.

John wrote March 31st, 2007 at 3:42 pm

BTW, the aplication gets confused about supported codecs and it warns about (and refuses to autmaticaly download) valid files while files it deems valid fail (at least partialy) to play on the device. How about adding an extra setting page that would let me say what is supported or not and what the behaviour should be regarding the unsupported media ?

Steven wrote April 4th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

Responding to previous comments:

1. The only difference between 1.00.3 and 1.00.2 is the compatibility with the N95. (There was a problem with installing to S60 3.1 which was fixed.)

Not sure why the phone would be erratic in the downloading of Podcasts otherwise.

Please always list the model of phone as well as the software release when telling of problems.
(To get the software release, press: *#0000# )

2. John Doe
Sorry about your recent batch of problems. Unfortunately, these are not problems which have been common, so all I can do is forward your experience to our team to try to figure out. Updating your podcasting version shouldnt make you lose your podcasts. And deleted files shouldnt be resurrected.

Its possible that a hard exit of Podcasting (multiple click the red END button or just turning phone off) instead of going to OPTIONS>EXIT will not allow Podcasting to remember some subscribed Podcasts.

We’ll look into this.

Meanwhile, you might consider using your PC and heading to http://www.opmlmanager.com and creating your own OPML file with all your favorite shows. If anything ever happened to your subscriptions on your Podcasting (though it shouldnt happen), then having your own OPML file makes it easy to restore with a few clicks.

Also look at some recent articles about using PC to aid managment of podcasts on your device:

Personalized Search Feed (Podzinger):
http://blogs.s60.com/nokiapodcasting/2007/02/part_2_hints_for_personalized.html

Better Subscribed Feed Management (PodNova)
http://blogs.s60.com/nokiapodcasting/2007/02/part_1_hints_for_better_subscr_1.html

Hope that helps, and sorry again for your frustrations.

Robert Nicholson wrote April 25th, 2007 at 5:24 am

Content cannot be played on the device?

Further more is the podcasting application written to accurately determine which set of files are supported by each device or is this generic? It certainly wouldn’t make sense for it to be generic but rather calling a low level api to determine which formats the device supports and making a determination from there.

For instance the podcasting application seems to make a very quick determination from the file as to whether it’s supported by the device? Does anybody know how this is performed? Does it examime the header of the file itself or only the filename ie. extension?

Robert Nicholson wrote April 25th, 2007 at 5:31 am

Ok then let’s try this.

1. I’d like to see the podcasting application/music player have the ability as in itunes to resume playing where you left off. It doesn’t appear to do that on my N95 right now. In iTunes you mark the file with a tag and it will honour this tag.

2. Both of these podcasts fail to download without a warning.

Jason’s O’Grady’s powerpage podcast.

http://www.powerpage.org/podcast.xml

These are m4a files.

and also

ABC’s This Week

feed://abcnews.go.com/xmldata/xmlPodcast?id=940303

these are mp3 files.

Why do I get a warning?

what bit rates are supported by the N95?

I was to believe the N95 supports mp3 and m4a files.

is the podcasting application written to query the device as to what formats it supports or is this something that is coded directly into the application?

Robert Nicholson wrote April 25th, 2007 at 5:38 am

Just a comment about importing Opml files. On my n80 I could easily send myself an exported opml file from itunes and then open it in messaging and directly import into Podcasting. This doesn’t work on the N95. when you do this it opens in the Notes application and the notes application only lets me save it in a place that the podcasting application cannot read it from. so in order to get my opml file I had to move the file from where I was saved to a location that the podcasting application can see.

rather unnecessarily complex.

I’m curious as to how you’d get a opml file from a website directly into podcasting application.

2. Just a followup…. it does in fact play the m4a file so the warning it shows is completely eroneous.

these files produce a warning but they do infact play.

Magnus wrote April 26th, 2007 at 11:31 am

Please, please implement a way to resume playing at a previous position in the podcast! I love the cast-subscription abilities of my new N95; it’s a great way to fill all those little waiting-times in a day with interesting content, but it gets a bit dull to fast-forward between every session..

Floyd wrote May 1st, 2007 at 1:09 pm

Any one knows if this is possible to update podcasts via USB cable? If yes how ? I am using a Nokia 5500.
Thanks

Shane wrote May 1st, 2007 at 3:37 pm

Hi,

I have a N95, running 10.0.018 firmware and the 1.00.3 version of the Podcasting application.

I am getting quite alot of podcasts not completing download with a HTTP error (or no error) as stated in their Options/Details. When I hit resume they sometimes complete, but more often than not they don’t, and if they do I get to the point where it stopped (where I hit resume download) and it ends ubruptly and continues from the beginning again (as though the file has been cut short, and then the beginning pasted in again).

This is with WiFi or with HSDPA 3G downloads, more often than not with the Filmspotting (from filmspotting.net) and MajorNelson’s (from http://www.majornelson.com) Podcasts.

N.B - I’d also like the following features added ASAP: (1) As others have said, auto bookmark so the podcast resumes from where I left it, and (2) Ability to import file I copy into the podcast folder from my desktop.

Thanks,
Shane.

Shane wrote May 3rd, 2007 at 2:32 am

Another feature request from me as per my number 2 above - how about working with the author of SyncTunes (http://www.nesfield.co.uk/synctunes/) to allow placing podcasts into the podcast appication on the phone?

Robert Nicholson wrote May 11th, 2007 at 7:55 am

Why does the application have to keep open an edge connection even when it’s not being used? My phone shows E even after the following scenario.

start application
begin to download episode a podcast
interrupt download or download is unsuccesfull
Edge connection still remains active.

the edge connectoin only needs to be active when it’s doing something.

My updates are manual not automatic so it’s not related to that.

Hasan wrote June 1st, 2007 at 11:33 am

Can anyone help, I’ve downloaded the latest podcasting version to use on my N73 (v2.0628.0.0.1 10-7-2006 N73 58.01) but cant get the podcasts to download. I can search and subscribe to a podcast but when I try to download by either clicking on it or Options -> Download, I get the downloading icon but after a while it just shows a red exclamation mark and in the Details it says “Error: HTTP Header returned with error”

I’ve tried installing by bluetooth and also direct download from nokia. Still get the same error. I’ve tried this on many different podcast subscriptions including the Nokia Music Podcast so its not because of one particular podcast.

Help?

Hasan wrote June 1st, 2007 at 11:34 am

Im using v1.00.3
Help?

Dan wrote June 4th, 2007 at 1:04 pm

Downloads are painfully slow on my N80 (4.0707.0.7). It takes roughly 30 minutes to get a 5-10 MB file that downloads in seconds on my computer (and nearly as fast in the N80 web browser). And more often than not, the download doesn’t actually finish in the Podcasting app.

Even worse, Podcasting downloads seem to use LOTS of CPU. A couple of downloads sucks my battery dry.

Is this a bug in the N80 firmware, or is it fixable?

Dan wrote June 4th, 2007 at 1:08 pm

Dan wrote June 4th, 2007 at 1:18 pm

RNG wrote June 19th, 2007 at 7:39 am

To Hasan:
I have the N95. I only received “Error: HTTP Header returned with error” when I try to download via T-Mobile USA (T-ZONES). I have no problem if I download via Wi-Fi. I would assume its the connection speed is the case of this error.

Stargate wrote July 3rd, 2007 at 12:40 am

Where can i download the source code for this application?

Peter wrote July 4th, 2007 at 10:52 am

Is the podcasting development dead?

Last official entry is from back in March, I heard that a new versions is in the works, but it would be nice to get some official feedback in this blog - a new post to show that there are actually people at NOKIA reading these comments and to inform us if any progress is being made or the podcast program has been discontinued.

Robert Nicholson wrote July 13th, 2007 at 9:27 am

Why sometimes when you add a new podcast does it not show any episodes at all but says “updated recently” and doesn’t give you the ability to drill down to the episodes?

When do we get bookmarking? ie. remembering where you were last time?

Ken wrote July 20th, 2007 at 3:12 pm

It would be nice if there was a way to force the podcast application to start automatically when the phone is turned on. As it is, if I turn off the phone (for example on a flight or due to low battery) then I have to remember to restart the application to ensure it downloads the podcasts.

Alex wrote July 24th, 2007 at 11:16 am

bookmarking would be great, however is only supported in mp4 file containers. it would be also great if we could miss-use the podcast player as audiobook player.

Demosthenes wrote August 5th, 2007 at 3:02 pm

Using a WLAN network with WPA1 enabled (have not tried with any other network) the battery maxes out and download speed is very slow. Seems a little faster by cellular network. But basically the download speed I can get renders this application unusable, which otherwise appears *excellent*. I’m not sure how to fix this download speed issue. Would be nice if I could just plug the phone in to a PC and it downloaded from the Net that way. Anyone else having problems with maxed out battery and slow downloads with podcasting application?

Si Brindley wrote August 13th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

Alex: “bookmarking would be great, however is only supported in mp4 file containers…”

Sounds like someone has an iPod
There is no reason at all why a media player can’t keep a record of where an MP3 stops playing (or any other media file for that matter).

Demosthenes wrote September 1st, 2007 at 8:28 am

Why do we have advertising on this blog? Can someone remove this spam and ban this users IP please? ”

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debasish singh solanki wrote October 5th, 2007 at 1:07 pm

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Nick wrote April 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 am

Where is the official source code for this application?

Nick wrote April 3rd, 2008 at 4:03 am

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