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Zune 2 is out - have we reached the holy grail of podcasting?

November 13th, 2007 — podcasting, zune

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Zune 1The new Zune media player from Microsoft was launched today. The new features relevant to podcasters and podcasting appear to be:-

  1. A 1 click method of subscribing to podcasts from within web pages;
  2. The device can sync with the base PC over the home wireless network - users will always leave home with the latest content.

What does this mean to podcasters? Ensure you put a Zune 1 Click subscribe link/button on your podcast web page - Paul Colligan has a nice tool to generate the URL and also some links to button you can use.

What does this mean to podcast listeners? With a Zune, you’ll no longer be tethered to your PC- well, not in the wired sense anyway.

My thoughts on all this:-

  1. iTunes has had the magic URL 1 click subscription method for a long time - i.e. itpc://podcast/rss/feed/path
  2. There needs to be a divorce between the media player and the PC - this has started with the Zune but is not yet complete. The holy grail is surely a media player which you can have in your pocket, which downloads new podcast episodes (that you previously subscribed to), over the phone network/wimax/wireless, without the need for a PC.

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