Exporting the list of podcasts
- load the podcasting application, mark all items and hit “send -> bluetooth”. Contrary to what you might expect, this will send an OPML file listing your subscriptions to your PC
Edit the list ready for import
- Open your new Podcasting.opml file in a text editor
- Find/replace all instances of
url=withxmlUrl= - Immediately after the opening
<body>tag put<outline title="podcasts" text="podcasts"> - Just before the closing
</body>tag put</outline> - (I also duplicated all the text=”blah” attributes with title=”blah” but I don’t know if this is actually necessary)
Import the list of podcasts
- load Google Reader
- Click “Settings” in the top right
- Go to the Import/Export tab
- Find your Podcasting.opml file and upload!
You should now find that you have a new folder called “podcasts” in your google reader containing all the podcasts from your Nokia device.
Even nicer – if you make the folder public (Settings -> Folders and Tags) you can import the OPML from Google Reader directly into other applications by giving the URL http://www.google.com/reader/public/subscriptions/user/USERID/label/podcasts where USERID is the long number in the URL of the “view public page” link next to your public podcasts folder in Settings -> Folders and Tags.
Thanks for helpful article, I actually use this the other way round, I added my podcasts tag in google reader to Nokia Podcasting as a Podcast Directory. Now when I add a podcast I dont have to type in the url, just add it to google reader and it will appear in the directory 🙂
Yeah, once I’d got them out in the first place, I did the same thing and added the directory in Nokia Podcasts. For what it’s worth though, the podcast subscription dialog in the Podcasting app is quite happy to accept tinyurl-style URLs so I rarely typed full podcast URLs, just short versions and then let the web work its magic on them!