Hi Shoe,

Well, that looks to be exactly what I want so thanks for the pointer -- I played around with Media Fly a bit today and while I can get my chumby to pick up a custom feed (which is awesome) but I'm finding mediafly a little clunky.  I created a channel which picked up the default "Unclassified" name and now I can't figure out how to rename it.  I also can't figure out how to add custom RSS feeds to mediafly (it only seems to want to add podcasts it has in it's catalog) but perhaps I'm not understanding how to use it properly so I'll play with it more.

Again, thanks for the poiter.....
-John

Hi John -

We are in the process of drastically improving the My Mediafly page to make it more user friendly. It will look more like gmail -- obvious, user-friendly.  But in the mean time, the way to change a channel is to go to the Feed page and click the "Change Channel" option on the left side and create new channel. Then you can move any feeds into that channel. (we'll make this easier in Feb).

If you have a personalized feed you can just add it like any other feed using the Add Feed link at the bottom. However, I don't recommend this method b/c it will just jumble them all together.  My suggestion is to add the feeds that you like into Mediafly seperately so that you can use the advanced features that we are adding to dictate which episodes from which feeds should be delivered.

For example, one "selection preference" that is nice is the Smart Days vs. Calendar Days ability. So, if you listen to CNN which comes out hourly you can select: One episode in the last 1 calendar day. That way you don't get old news. But for Stand Up Comedy feeds you might say: Three episodes over any time.

This is one of the areas we are doing very innovative things.  And we have a few more very cool preferences coming out in the next couple months.

I am happy to help in any way I can. You can email me via www.mediafly.com/contactus . And, any features/ideas you have to improve Mediafly, send them over. We take this input very seriously and are building most into the future versions.

Best,

Carson
President
Mediafly

Hmmm, it appears that btplay is having trouble playing those streams.

I think these have the same symptom as another problem we encountered regarding some servers doing some weird HTTP stuff, and for which we already have a fix for a future firmware update.  We'll have QA try these streams as part of their testing.

Most of my podcasts work, however, this http://www.podbazaar.com/rss/126100789566374044 still doesnt work.It loads and shows it as "idle"
Does it support video podcasts?

Thanks!

You can use cron to run a script on a time schedule if you have a good enough web host. I use Dreamhost and they let you do this.