I saw an announcement of the JavaCast, a podcast covering Java technology, and along with the announcement I saw mentioned jPodder. Hmm... a java related podcast and a pure Java podcast software application. How interesting, so let's take a look.
First let's look at JavaCast. I've only listened to 5 minutes of one of their podcasts, but it's interesting and I'll come back for more. The format is two guys, Brandon Werner and Dick Wall talking as geeks talking to geeks about the Java market and software. Apparently they've only been at this since July 2005 (that's all the archive shows), and it appears they've made a good start.
Next, jPodder. Seeing that I'm using a sunray terminal I didn't have much hope that jPodder would actually work. It's featureset supports both downloading and recording podcasts. Yup, that's right, it helps you record podcasts, so you can use this software to produce your own if you like.
The download is simple enough, and the installation works pretty well. The software isn't yet v1 so there's a few rough edges. It uses a non-standard L&F which looks pretty nice. It easily downloaded the files from the JavaCast podcast, even though I didn't configure in any proxy setup. That's nice that it figured out the proxying without my having to tell it. However I got a little confused as to why it wouldn't play the audio. Hunting around I finally found the settings section and that there were no plugins for playing files. Maybe it plays files okay on other platforms than this sunray I'm on.
That led me on a little hunt for something that would play the MP3 file which was downloaded from the JavaCast. Fortunately I remembered jlGui and it's working fine on the sunray.
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