Nokia N91 as a mobile podcatcher

Recently, I have been playing with the Nokia N91 - with Wifi built-in and a 4gb hard disk on board too - to test some podcast stuff I have been building. I have to say I really like it - especially as they let me plug standard headphones into the jack.

They have a neat little podcasting application on there by default, which makes it very easy to enter an OPML file url (or locally open one from the handset) for a podcast directory, or an RSS for a direct podcast subscription. I’ll do a full report on this soon.

But one very odd thing I found is that while the handset has no problems whatsoever in playing an AAC+ (.m4a) file which I copied over on the device, when I try to subscribe it to an RSS feed with .m4a audio enclosures ( audio/x-m4a ) the application tells me that the device will not play this format.

Ermm…hello??

Also, a quick note to say that this app is apparently called ‘mPodder‘ in the apps folder of the device. Hmmmm…

1 Response to “Nokia N91 as a mobile podcatcher”


  1. 1 iphone games music July 20, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    Nice blog, i have added it to my favourites, greetings

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