Surfarama

I am I the only one who thinks iTunes really bites as a client for subscribing to podcasts? With all my commuting these days I am getting through more than a few podcasts and audio books, and I have reached the conclusion that iTunes is really bad as a podcasting client.

Dropped downloads, missed episodes, error messages...I've been getting a lot of this for a while now. When I go direct to the source to download the mp3 file and then import to iTunes manually it all goes fine, but when I subscribe to a podcast feed from outside iTunes store I have constant problems with downloads, not to mention how slow it seems. At first I thought to blame the publishers and their invalid RSS, but I don't think this is it because I am consistently having the same problems from multiple publishers, and a big part of the issue is iTunes seeming inability to manage downloads effectively...I don't know how many times I've had some error message in iTunes, but on restarting the download it all seems fine. And it honestly seems wayyyy slower when downloading in iTunes compared to just visiting the site and right clicking.

Bloody frustrating. It's almost as if Apple doesn't want me getting my podcasts from anywhere other than iTunes, and so forces a poor performance. But that couldn't be it could it :)