Anyone interested in Podcasting may wish to keep reading. Otherwise, feel free to ignore this posting altogether.
As we (the Podcast nerds) know, Apple recently released a version of iTunes that supports Podcasting. The problem is, they will only let you add Podcasts that exist in their directory. This can be a bit of a problem, as in what happened to the PWOP guys who do DotNetRocks and Mondays.
I was one frantic nerd. What would I do without Carl, Richard, Mark, Geoff, and Karen spewing nonsense in my ears till they bleed (or in the case of DotNetRocks, Carl and Richard feeding my brain till my ears bleed...either way, bleeding ears are involved)?
I had once played around with the iTunes lib in .NET, so I decided to take another peek. I found a method that would let me add a feed directly, so I wrote a tiny app to call the method. It's written in C#, so all you VB.NET people can contact me and I'll send them something with pretty pictures explaining what the app is doing. (Just kidding, I've written more VB.NET professionally than C#.)
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Go ahead, use it, distribute it, wipe your nether regions with it. Not like I wasted any time on it. You will need to have the iTunes 4.9 installed to use it, though I doubt you'd be downloading it otherwise.
Of course, later I found the utility to manually add a feed in the Advanced / Subscribe to Podcast... menu, but I had the fun of looking around the iTunes lib again, so it wasn't time totally wasted. You'll never take that away from me. NEVER!!! Besides, what kind of nerd would I be if I didn't overcomplicate something for no apparant reason?
Time to go. The nurse says I have to take my medicine now. It helps to keep the bad people away.