<< PowerShell 1.0 Released | Home | How to change your active directory password >>

Primetime Podcast Receiver

Download Here
Email me

Primetime Podcast Receiver

Email me

Features

  • Automatically import subscriptions from OPML format.
  • Integration with Windows Media Player and/or Apple iTunes Playlists.
  • Manages your subscriptions, automatically updating feed locations if they change.
  • Allows you to keep your downloaded media list clean, auto-purging old items.
  • Schedules automatic scans for new podcasts.
  • Maintains library of podcasts, sorted by the feed from which they originated.
  • Catch-Up allows you to mark all non-downloaded podcasts as read, for extended away circumstances.
  • View video podcasts .
  • Play audio podcasts.
  • Bookmarking for all podcasts, allows you to return to any bookmarked location anytime at the click of a button.
  • Integrated Podcast directories from Podcast Alley.
  • Plays Windows Media formatted content, using Windows Media Player integration.
  • Progress bar tracks downloads visually.
  • Text logging support.
  • HTTP and Socks (4 and 5) proxy support.

Requirements

Welcome to Primetime Podcast Receiver! This software will make keeping up-to-date on the latest and greatest podcast feeds absolutly effortless.

The Primetime Podcast Receiver will sleep silently in the background while you work, until awoken to do its job by your scheduling. It will allow you to manage your podcast subscriptions and schedule automatic scans for new podcasts. You can also perform a manual scan at any time with the click of a button. A "Catch-Up" command allows you to mark all of the podcasts as already viewed, so that if the Podcast Receiver is not running for a while, you won't have to download dozens of old podcasts the next time you scan.

During the scan, if a new podcast is detected, it will begin downloading automatically, not interrupting you while you work.

 

The Primetime Podcast Receiver was the first software of its kind to allow not just automatic downloading of podcast content, but to also allow you to listen to (or view) the podcast content as well. Using Microsoft Windows Media Player (R) technology, you can listen to podcasts in the background while you work.

Primetime Podcast Receiver adds bookmarking capabilities, so that you can always easily come right back to any position in any podcast that you want.

We've added the power of Podcast Alley's Podcast Library to provide you with the most comprehensive, fast, and easy subscription mechanism possible. Simply right click on the podcast you are interested in and subscribe!

 

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please stop by http://geekswithblogs.net/Lance/articles/PPR.aspx and share. There you will find more documentation about all of the features and configurable options available in PPR. You can also email me for questions or comments.

Thanks for using Primetime Podcast Receiver!

Print | posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:34 AM

Feedback

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Michael Friedmann at 1/1/2006 9:19 AM
Gravatar Hallo, wollte heute den Podcaster installieren, doch es wurde folgende Fehlermeldung beim Starten des Programms angezeigt: "C:Windows/Micorsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322/mscorwks.dll could not be landed" - Was kann ich tun, damit ich das Programm starten und einrichten kann?
Dankeschön

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 1/2/2006 6:21 AM
Gravatar The .Net framework must be installed, it is a requirement of PPR. You can download it through Windows Update: update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by mentis at 1/6/2006 10:38 AM
Gravatar Any support for torrent based podcasts built in?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 1/6/2006 10:49 AM
Gravatar No torrent support, although there is support for using Coral.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by KHUSHRU GOTLA at 1/10/2006 3:53 AM
Gravatar THANKS FOR A GREAT SOFTWARE

# Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Olivier at 2/1/2006 9:12 PM
Gravatar Any support of m4u file downloaded through a video podcast ?
Actually could we choose which player we wanto to have in Primetime ?
Thanks

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Mike O'Neil at 2/15/2006 8:41 AM
Gravatar Will this work on a Win 2003 Server?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Michael Struck at 2/18/2006 4:26 PM
Gravatar Hallo,
I have installed the program on a Windows 98 platform. Unfortunately, it does not open any Windows, if I try to subscribe or if I want to enter any options.
What might be the reason?
Yours sincerely

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 2/21/2006 7:54 AM
Gravatar Yes, it will work on Win2003 Server.
Windows 98 is not supported.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by mp3 blog at 3/27/2006 4:16 AM
Gravatar nice to hear u again dude.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Don at 3/27/2006 10:40 AM
Gravatar Great program! 2 issues:
1. It goes off the screen after being minimized (I have to move it back)
2. My history.txt file isn't being updated.

Any ideas? And Thanks!

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Alvin at 4/11/2006 7:51 AM
Gravatar Working great! Just 1 issue.
I set CatchUp marks all but the lastest to 10 podcasts in each feed as downloaded. But when I catched up, it only downloaded the latest podcast. The history.txt file was populated with all 10 podcasts though.
Any idea?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 4/11/2006 10:24 AM
Gravatar To Don: you need the latest from this site, instead of the old one from download.com.

To Alvin: This may be a bug in the catchup implementation. I will check. However, if you want to get all but the latest 10, don't catch up at all. Most feeds won't provide more than 10 (for bandwidth reasons).

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by elguaro at 4/23/2006 5:25 AM
Gravatar Please whatever you do with BitTorrent in the future give users the option to switch off your internal one and use a different BitTorrent client. I've been days tring to find a podcast software that would simply download .torrent files and le me do whatever I want to do with them instead of trying to be too smart with them. For me the fact that Primetime doesn't support bittorrent is a strenght not a weakness. But I know you'll probably add the feature so just give us options.

One cool feature that I've seen in other programs is being able to run a command after each download. That would actually let me run a script to fire up my BitTorrent client. Of course I woudn't have to do that if you let me tell you what BitTorrent client to use. But I still think the command thing could be handy anyways.

Also being able to see what's downloading would be cool.

thanks

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Alex Atkins at 4/30/2006 8:36 AM
Gravatar I love to listen to your show every saterday night!

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by d.thomassin@ool.fr at 6/2/2006 10:41 PM
Gravatar Does It exist in a French version ???

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by JK at 6/5/2006 8:13 AM
Gravatar Can it be enhanced to allow downloads of PDF files?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 6/5/2006 9:20 AM
Gravatar French Version: No, there is not currently.
PDF Files: PPR can download PDF files already.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Mike at 6/9/2006 4:54 PM
Gravatar Hi - Nice work. I'm just breaking myself in, but it looks very good. One question, where do I find the version number of the software. I downloaded from this site, but neither the masterfile nor the help section have a version number that I can find. I want to be sure I can distinguish future updates.

Thanks

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 6/12/2006 9:39 AM
Gravatar You can see the version number of the "Version" tab of the ppr.exe file properties.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by JK at 6/15/2006 8:01 AM
Gravatar After it downloads a PDF file, if you double click the PDF, it does not open. Can this be changed so that it opens in an external application?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lars Hubert Omitta at 6/20/2006 8:15 PM
Gravatar I will like to tray this server

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Mike at 6/22/2006 10:04 AM
Gravatar Hey great program, just one problem...is there a way to view the list of episodes and download them selectivley say...I want to dowload a podcast 2 episodes back but I don't want the curent one like in itunes where you press the get buttons

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by FT at 6/29/2006 7:50 AM
Gravatar Nice app. For the next version, could you make the bottom right pane of the media tab resizable? at least horizontally resizable? it's somewhat annoying that if I shrink the app horizontally, the list of titles and the tree view shrink to nothing while that bottom right pane stays the same size. also the dates in the title list show the dates at which I downloaded the podcast. showing the dates at which the podcasts were published would be more useful, imo. or maybe show both?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by FT at 6/29/2006 7:51 AM
Gravatar sorry, i meant vertically resizable.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 6/29/2006 7:53 AM
Gravatar Both great suggestions, thank you!

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Jim at 7/25/2006 3:10 PM
Gravatar How do I bookmark a podcast? I can't see a button or menu item.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by George at 8/19/2006 10:09 AM
Gravatar Anyone know what "Coralize Download" in options means?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 8/19/2006 11:05 AM
Gravatar Coral is a distribution network which helps reduce the bandwidth burden for content producers.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Tom LeMay at 9/6/2006 7:19 AM
Gravatar I am getting the following error code. Can you tell me how to fix this? Also, I am not able to download all of the pod casts from one of my subscriptions. Why is this? Do I have to clear or delete the history file first and then hit scan selected? Thanks, Tom

Source: LoadMonitor
Message: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Program Files\Primetime Podcast Receiver\Media\Archive'.
Trace: at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.Directory.InternalGetFileDirectoryNames(String path, String userPathOriginal, String searchPattern, Boolean includeFiles, Boolean includeDirs, SearchOption searchOption)
at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.GetDirectories(String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption)
at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.GetDirectories()
at MediaCast.Form1.LoadMonitor(String path)
WMPver: 10.0.0.4036

# PAD file request

Left by Review Team at 9/24/2006 10:04 PM
Gravatar Hello!

Can you please send us the URLs of the PAD files of your software products so that we could to add them to our software directory (http://www.alphadownloads.com)? Thank you very much for your effort.

Best regards!

____________
Review Team
AlphaDownloads
review@alphadownloads.com
http://www.alphadownloads.com/

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Eduardo at 10/1/2006 9:42 AM
Gravatar Intuitive, simple program that works well for multiple users on the same server.

One bug that I wish would go away: From taskbar icon, 'Show' PPR does not launch the window with 'resize'. Instead, it launches with 'minimize' and does not allow restore. Only 'maximize' works.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Trischia at 10/3/2006 12:32 AM
Gravatar sounds great

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Edward at 10/30/2006 12:45 AM
Gravatar Why does PPR "leave behind" some podcasts that are definitely visible on the host site on "catch up"?
e.g. cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/quarksaio
Oct 28 broadcast is shown but wont download..

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 10/30/2006 8:56 AM
Gravatar The url that you gave is not valid, so I can't check. My guess is though, that the show is shown on the webpage but is NOT in the feed - OR you did a catchup on the feed which marked that show as "do not download".

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Edward at 10/30/2006 11:38 AM
Gravatar Corrected URL
Oct 28 edition is the one that doesnt appear to want to download via PPR.
Im running Vista RC1 right now, maybe thats the cause?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 10/30/2006 12:08 PM
Gravatar Edward, email me your subscriptions.opml and history.txt files from your C:\Program Files\Primetime Podcast Receiver directory.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Jerryyyyy at 11/2/2006 11:53 PM
Gravatar My complements. Works with accented file names that do not work with Juice.

Would be nice if one could better control timing of downloads, i.e certain times on a 24h clock. Also would be nice to control deleting pocasts on an individual schedule for each download.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Molette at 11/6/2006 7:25 AM
Gravatar Where is the Download-Progressbar. I cant see it...

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by IdC at 11/17/2006 8:44 AM
Gravatar How about a way to automatically assign all the podcast downloads as the podcast genre? Some are coming through without it assigned...

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 11/17/2006 9:52 AM
Gravatar Are you talking about WMP or iTunes? You say it only happens sometimes? I try to set the genre everytime I add to the playlist. If it fails, there should be something in the error log about it.

# <font color="#800000"><strong>Abbonatevi al...

Left by at 12/19/2006 2:24 PM
Gravatar Abbonatevi al Podcast di iNDiEBAR! E' gratis!!! Ebbene si, ce l'abbiamo fatta! Abbiamo sistemato il feed del nostro podcast cui adesso &egrave; possibile abbonarsi gratuitamente. Nell'attesa che iTunes lo indicizzi, &egrave; possibile abbonarsi comunq

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by dmelliott at 1/8/2007 5:37 AM
Gravatar Why does this sometimes download the exact same file. It could check for name, type, size, etc. before downloading.

Also, the requirements above say DotNet V1.1. The latest, V3.0, seems to work too.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by dmelliott at 1/8/2007 5:43 AM
Gravatar If you would like to have a much better player to incorporate, you might look at the VLC player:

http://www.videolan.org/

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by dmelliott at 1/8/2007 5:47 AM
Gravatar Would it be possible to have multiple, simultaneous downloading?

Then I would not have to have seven instances installed.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 1/8/2007 8:00 AM
Gravatar How about sending me an email?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Greg at 1/9/2007 10:32 AM
Gravatar What does Coralize Downloads mean?s!5W

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Kent Wilson at 1/14/2007 8:28 PM
Gravatar I installed ppr.exe gave me an error saying could not initialize.
I downloaded .Net framework 1.1, installed then re-installed ppr.exe, I get an error stating I need the appropriate version of .NET framework. I need to have version 2.0.50727 in order to run this application. I updated via Microsoft Update and downloaded SP1 for .NET Framework but I still get the same error.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Gerard Kennedy at 1/25/2007 12:46 PM
Gravatar is there a way to view the list of episodes and download them selectivley say...I want to dowload a podcast 2 episodes back but I don't want the curent one like in itunes where you press the get buttons

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lance at 1/25/2007 12:50 PM
Gravatar Gerard, no, this is (purposefully) not possible with PPR.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Randy at 1/28/2007 3:31 PM
Gravatar I wish that I could tell which files I had already listened to.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Chuji　Kumai at 1/30/2007 4:45 AM
Gravatar I have downloaded Prime Time Podcast and now I need Net Framework; v2.0.50727 inorder to run this application. Could you help me?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by markus reiter at 3/8/2007 1:27 PM
Gravatar swsdsqwd

# re: initilalization error

Left by jancy at 4/1/2007 6:32 AM
Gravatar i installed primetime podcast receiver and .net framework 1.1 but i am not able to open the podcast receiver. i am getting .net framework intilization error

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Joseph Katz at 4/23/2007 7:21 AM
Gravatar Is it possible to "send" files to an MP3 player after receiving them. I don't want to send all files, I would like to just right click and instead of Explore, send to:

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by JW at 4/25/2007 10:17 AM
Gravatar I just installed ppr and it looks pretty good. But I minimized it to the tray and now it won't restore. Clicking on "show" from the tray icon put the button back on the task bar, but I just get a "beep" when I click on that button. Right click gives me the options of restore, maximize and close, all of which just give me the same beep and don't do anything. Any suggestions?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by sammypit at 5/5/2007 1:33 AM
Gravatar i am new to podcasting, and thank you very mush. i may learn to use this software downloading files for news-info listening.

keep up the good work

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by apichard at 5/12/2007 1:03 PM
Gravatar I've found a little bug in PPR (last build)
It's not generate m4v files into window media playlist (infact, my windows media player is installed the m4v, etc decoder)

However, I like this program so much.

Regards

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by David at 5/15/2007 9:09 AM
Gravatar After installation PPR will not automatically download the feed. I have set to update at every 1 hour. Is there another configuration setting that I need to set?

Thanks,
David

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by suzanne at 5/28/2007 9:23 AM
Gravatar I'll ask the same question because I didn't see a response:
"Why does this sometimes download the exact same file. It could check for name, type, size, etc. before downloading."
I've looked all over options and cannot figure out why suddenly PPR is downloading up to 3 versions of the same podcasts I already have, whether I have deleted the former copies or not. It didn't used to do repeats. Thank you!!!

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Don at 6/3/2007 7:41 PM
Gravatar Is there a way I can force the media details on files that are downloaded from a particular feed?
I want to force tags like Album name, genre, etc so as I open the files in Media Player they are tagged for me. This would be set at a feed level, say a property on the feed that would overwrite as the files are placed into the destination directory?
Have been running the client for while now on Vista Utlimate, it's the only client I've found that doesn't have problems running on Vista - keep up the good work!

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Terry at 6/8/2007 9:08 AM
Gravatar Like others - I cannot get the program to download podcasts. It sets up titles automatically and searches, but states no new episodes each scan including those daily podcasts which come ready loaded! I can go to a site and listen directly to podcasts which will not download.

I uninstalled Juice because of the same problem.

Apple iTunes will download the podcasts with no problem, but as I have a non-Apple mp3 player I do not want to use iTunes (and have uninstalled it!)

Any advice?

Win XP Pro with all latest updates
CA security suite, but not set unduly high - can receive Flash Player content for eg.
MS.NET software with security updates installed

Thanks

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Terry at 6/8/2007 3:29 PM
Gravatar Thanks for the personal reply Lance.

I think I have found the problem! On examining the error file there were statements indicating that the downloads were too big.

As a podcast newbie I had set the download max size at 1 MB. I changed it to 10 and I had a download.

Hope this may help others.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by t3chnomanc3r at 6/26/2007 4:40 PM
Gravatar Well I checked this out since Doppler seems to have stagnated & is buggy as hell at the moment.

Looked promising until I started working with it:

1. Can't pick a specific episode ("purposefully this way"? Can you say MORONIC?)

2. Single download thread

3. Can't sort the list of feeds nor group them

4. Can't disable a feed short of deleting it

Should be more like v.1a than a v1.0 release as you are missing lots of features and maybe even are a bit clueless leaving features out "purposefully".

5 of 5 stars for polish, 1 of 5 for features & interface.

Sigh, off to find something else to replace Doppler, wish they'd just fix it.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Lotmi127 at 8/5/2007 9:35 AM
Gravatar Cant seem to download a directory
example:

Directory
Podcast directory
"Podcast alley top 50" (or any selection)

"Unable to contact directory.
try again later.
HTTP protocol error. 302 Found"

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Michael Brinkenhoff, MD at 8/25/2007 7:19 PM
Gravatar Sorry, I'm a real novice at podcasting.

All I really want to do is to be able to download NPR's weekly "Science Friday" to my computer (it's loaded and has Microsoft Media Player installed) and be able to listen to it on my computer. I'm sure I'll find lots more uses, but that's it for now.

I've downloaded the primetimepodcast receiver. Problem is: I don't have a clue as to what to do next. I feel I really need a simple step-by-step walkthru instruction list. Much appreciated if you can be of help.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by horst müller at 8/27/2007 2:26 PM
Gravatar ich muß das programm erst kennenlernen,
bevor ich ein urteil abgeben kann.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by tosher at 9/25/2007 3:24 AM
Gravatar may be u happen

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by cam man at 1/26/2008 9:17 AM
Gravatar sweet!

# Valencia property SL

Left by Graham Hunt at 2/19/2008 10:40 PM
Gravatar Valencia property SL have produced a Podcast to help you with your
purchaisng of a property in Spain and more specifically Valencia. Here
you will find everything you need to know and more about purchasing
property in Valencia and beyond and what is happening here. We will have
interviews with people involved in Spanish property, news, features and
more so keep checking back and subscribe through your podcast listening
software. Check out our website at www.valencia-property.com and the
blog at www.valenciacomment.blogspot.com

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Neil Cossar at 2/21/2008 9:48 AM
Gravatar I just wanted to tell you about a new free weekly podcast just launched. We have Katie Melua as the special guest this week.

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/podcast.php

Music trivia, facts and a special musical guest each week.

If you have time, take a listen.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Allan Michael at 2/27/2008 12:59 AM
Gravatar Just want to let you know that I have downloaded and started using the PPR and I thinks it is tremendous!
I've had been messing around with virtually ever podcast downloader available and with the exception of the Primetime Podcast Receiver I have found them all lacking in one way or another.
Thank you for the the heads-up

Allan

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Drew at 3/4/2008 1:40 AM
Gravatar COOL dude!!!

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Vlad at 3/4/2008 6:21 AM
Gravatar The same problem:
Directory
Podcast directory
"Podcast alley top 50" (or any selection)

"Unable to contact directory.
try again later.
HTTP protocol error. 302 Found"
Any suggestion?

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by ron at 5/24/2008 9:57 AM
Gravatar I downloaded a feed with 9 episodes. I had the option for Primtime to automatically create a playlist in Windows Media Player. It did a great job, but the list was backward.

# re: Primetime Podcast Receiver

Left by Alan at 6/27/2008 7:56 AM
Gravatar I am new to podcasting and was put onto PPR. The Help page is missing and I need a step by step Help section to explain what/how everything is and works. Are there up-dates to the current download? Please help me. Thanks.

Your comment:





 
Please add 8 and 7 and type the answer here:

Copyright © Lance Robinson

Design by Bartosz Brzezinski

Design by Phil Haack Based On A Design By Bartosz Brzezinski