Yes, it is a pain. You can save them as a favorite, but you need to enter them character by character the first time.

oh damn.

is there an easier way to enter URLs for podcasts if you want to listen to them through Tivo?

I didn't even know you could do that.

Does it let you play a podcast while simultaneously playing a tv show it's recorded? Probably not, huh. Come to think of it, I don't see how you'd control both at the same time with the remote. It'd be cool if there were an easier way to play the BSG podcasts along with a recorded episode, but....

I suppose one could google "tivo podcasts" [link]

Does anyone own a Nano besides ita and me? Anyone having playback problems with it? Mine occasionally does this weird thing where it pauses just for a fraction of a second. Usually when it does it it happens a few times a second for a second or two. I've just figured out that it always happens on the same songs, in the same places in those songs. (The songs play fine in iTunes and on my 3G iPod.) My current hypothesis is that it just is choking on too much data, as it only seems to happen on higher bitrate mp3s that are encoded VBR (variable bit rate) at points in the song where (I think) the bitrates are gonna be highest. (However, according to the specs, the Nano should be able to handle the songs without a problem.) I'll have to play the songs in question on WinAmp or some other player that displays instantaneous bitrate on VBR files to see if this is in fact the case.

Can someone who has a Nano do me a favor and play one of the songs in question if I email it to you? I'm just curious if another Nano will show the problem. The example song is "Cracked LCD" by Ladytron. 186 kbps VBR, downloaded from eMusic (eta 3.4 MB). The problem starts at approx. the 1:49 point, and is only happens when a certain distorted synth part kicks in. (Higher distortion in instruments seems to result in higher bitrate in VBR encodings.)

eta: Ah. I googled 'ipod nano stutter' and discovered that some folks have been having the problem on some VBR songs.

Daniel, I googled my issue first and got nothing. I figured the buffistas might have another recommendation.

Daniel, it's the support thread. People come here with questions all the time--are we really making rules before entry?

tommy, if you still want to try, you can send it to me.

ita, I just sent it to you via gmail, but I got an "unresponsive script" error after it went out. I think it went out OK. (I send to your profile addy)

I never said it was a rule, I just found several references when I googled, and rather than post what I found, I was lazy.

In no way did I mean it as a rebuke.

tommy, gimme a few minutes to do the copy over. Received intact.

Sorry-DCJ. I read it kinda like a RTFM. I apologise.