A new, outstandingly designed podcasting player, search tool and aggregator has just launched. Called the Ziepod, it offers unmatched ease of use, features and ergonomics to make it anyone's best Windows candidate as the next podcasting player of choice.
The Ziepod is indeed a little jewel of UI and usability design, conceived and created with the end user in mind.
Its killer feature is that you can either directly listen to episodes of subscribed podcasts or download them for your later playback on your portable MP3 player. Yes, podcast shows can be immediately streamed to your computer as you click on them, and there is no waiting time before you can start listening to your favourite programming.
This is really the way it should be and in my view, this is an extremely powerful feature which greatly facilitates non-technical users adoption and appreciation of podcasts.
Nonetheless to novice podcasters and listeners these may not appear as revolutionary traits, I do think they really are. The ability to forego the time needed to download any podcast by making it immediately accessible through an instantly-playable streaming capability, DOES make Ziepod a much more accessible, easy and intuitive access route to anyone's podcasts.
The Ziepod superior interface is capable of four different viewing modes, providing the user with extremely flexibility and comfort in its use. I myself love the "deskbar" view, which not only is extremely unobtrusive but allows intuitive control and rating of any of the podcasts you are listening to.
With the new Ziepod you can also can search for past episodes and issues of any podcast, something not readily available by most other podcasting directories and playback tools.
This is made possible by Ziepod tight integration with Feedzie.com, a tag-based companion RSS and podcast search engine/directory which makes it easy and effective to find the RSS-based content you are looking for.
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