UPDATED: Help Me Choose an Ad Design

I have created 2 ads. I am having a hard time choosing one to submit to advertising. I want to hear your opinions on which one you like more.

#1)

#2)

Please help me choose. If you think you can do better, then design your own ad and send it to us. If you use it, we will send you a gift card for iTunes.

UDPATE: I have chosen ad #2. It will be going on http://iphoneapplicationlist.com starting March 1st, 2009

March Madness Gift Card Giveaway

We will be giving away a gift card for the iTunes app store on March 1st, 2009. To reply to @iphonepodcaster on twitter.com with the following tweet

RT to enter RSS Player March Madness Giveaway. http://rssplayerapp.com

I will choose a winner March 1st at random. Good luck.

RSS Player and podnova.com integration

Over the next few months, I have plans to integrate with many different podcast services on the web. Last week, I told you about castroller.com integration. Well now I am happy to announce that podnova.com, a really handy podcast catcher site, has added import to RSS Player ability.

It's easy to use. Simply go to podnova.com on your computer, setup an account (for free), then import your feeds. Finally open podnova on your iPhone or iPod touch and click the import to RSS Player button on podnova.com subscriptions page. RSS Player will open and start importing all your feeds. I use this method as a backup of my subscription list.

Rss Player and CastRoller.com intergration

I'm very happy to announce that castroller.com, a popular netcasts directory, has made it easier then ever to subscribe to netcasts via Rss Player.

They have included a subscribe link that opens Rss Player on your device and imports automatically. You can search castroller.com and import individual casts or you can setup an account using your computer and then import your entire netcast list with 1 click of a button.

To get started, go to www.castroller.com on your iPhone or Touch.

This is also a great way to backup your netcast list just in case your iPhone has to be restored.

Thanks to Will from castroller.com for making this possible.

If you are a netcast owner and want to add a subscribe using Rss Player link, check out this post. It gives very easy to follow instructions and a button image.

UPDATED: Rss Player 1.2 - Screenshots and descriptions

I have submitted 1.2 to the apps store and it will be out soon. We worked really hard to add features to this app and we are happy with where we stand. I'll give a brief explanation with each screenshot.


We brought back the Podcaster default image.


Adding feeds has never been easier with our build in search. You can still import using a url.





The My Favs tab has been improved to include multiple edit mode.



You can now rearrange, unsubscribe, mark all played and refresh just a portion of your feeds from here.




The download tab has been renamed to Queue. The function of this view is to show items that are waiting to be downloaded or are currently being downloaded. You can rearrange the items here. This is also the place you come when you want to sync your feeds (automatically download and delete items based on the sync settings)




After downloads are complete, you go to the Agenda tab. Here you can filter for all, unheard or saved casts. You can also reverse the order so you can listen from old to new. Gray background indicates a downloaded item.




This is our details view. Audio feeds will remember the play position and resume after app restarts.

And finally, this is the options tab. Here you can control how casts are downloaded and deleted when you press sync.


We are huge netcast fans so we need a lot of control and flexibility. We built an app that is meant for heavy netcast users but if simple enough for everyone. Other app might pretend to play netcast but Rss Player is the only app in the app store that does is designed for serious netcast listeners. Available soon in the app store.

UPDATE: Someone asked how to control the volume in the comments, Just touch the volume icon to make the volume controller popup. look here http://twitpic.com/1tgjh

Adding a button to your netcast so that it opens Rss Player and imports

As a netcaster, you want as much exposure as possible on as many netcast client as possible. I'm going to describe in detail how to add a button to your feed that will import directly into Rss Player as well as give some examples.

Here are some example (You need Rss Player installed in order for anything to happen)


Subscribe to Buzz Out Loud



Subscribe to the 404

When a user clicks on the link above on there iPhone, Rss Player automatically opens and imports the feed.

Here is an example of the html required to make this button.



Subscribe to Buzz Out Loud


You can copy this code and simply change the feed url to be your own and that's it. Give the code to your web guy and he can put it into your site.

Don't let a listener pass you by, if they use Rss Player and see you have a link to import, they will subscribe to your feed.

The winners of the Valentines Day Giveaway

I have selected a winner at random from the comments made on our Valentines day giveaway. The winner is 

Podcast Mike from the comments. 

I'll be sending you that iTunes gift card on behalf of Rss Player, the best  way to enjoy netcasts on the iPhone, very soon.

I plan to have more giveaways in the near future so if you want to find out when they are and participate, follow me on twitter.com @iPhonePodcaster

If you are already an owner of Rss Player, please leave a review in the app store.

If you dont own it yet, what are you waiting for, go get it now! 

Thank you everyone for participating.