Transferring podcasts to Fuze through Windows explorer

[fuzeuser1]

Hi all:

I have a 4 Gb Fuze and I’m unimpressed with Windows media player 11’s inability to recognize my podcasts. I use Itunes and I’d like to know if I sync my podcast  older and its subdirectories to Fuze, will it preserve their structure?

Thanks!

xavier

P.S. I know it’s a minor heresy but I’d like a small program that allows Fuze to sync with Itunes -not the paid stuff I accept that limitation-.

[canaws]

The Fuze can’t read m4a/mp4 files. You’ll have to use itunes to convert them to mp3 or another supported format. I don’t know if it’ll keep your file structure though. My fuze is new, so I haven’t used the podcast folder/features yet.

[shimbo]

You could of course not use itunes… As you are looking for a small program you could try ‘MyPodder’ - http://www.podcastready.com/download.php I have been using this for a number of months now and it works fine. You load the program directly onto your Sansa, select the podcasts you want and they automatically download directly to your sansa… If you use a number of computers like I do this can be an easy way of managing your favourite podcasts… My only grip with the program is that not all podcasts end up in the Podcast Genre: you can always fix this manually with MP3tag or the likes whilst waiting for a fix.

[fuzeuser1]

Hi all:

Thanks. The Podcasts are in standard MP3 format. I didn’t know that Fuze can’t read MP4 formats. That explains why 2 of my albums don’t show up in WMP.

Shimbo:

Thanks for the Podder tip. I’ll take a look at it. Will it find international radio stations?

Thanks again!

xavier 

[sansafuzer8g]

So… (if you are still around). I see that SanDisk uses the U3 technology, but what do you use/download from MyPodder directly to the Sansa Fuze? Is it the U3 version? Is it the windows version? Or something completely different.

Thanks!

rt