Very cool Alpha from Carl! Definitely worth checking out.

Here are some of the high points from his post:

I am hereby announcing an alpha version at www.pwopcatcher.com. Here are the features in a nutshell:

• Subscribe to RSS feeds that contain enclosures (of any kind).
• Each feed’s enclosures can be downloaded to a unique folder, or a common folder.
• Each feed can have a different interval (minutes between reloading the feed).
• You can specify (for each feed) a maximum life in days of enclosures. Only podcasts X days old or newer will be downloaded.
• Files are pruned locally: they are deleted after X days (for each feed) to avoid your hard disk getting full of old shows that you are no longer interested in.
• For the destination folder, you can specify either a drive letter or a volume label. In some cases you might want to download directly to a removable hard drive or audio device. Since the drive letter might be different each time you connect it, using the volume label to identify the drive solves this problem.
• Downloads will auto-resume. You can kill PwopCatcher in mid-download. Next time you run it, downloads will pick up where they left off
• BitTorrent support is provided by uTorrent, which is a 155K native Windows BitTorrent client app (see this post for more info). The uTorrent people have allowed me to automatically install it. If you subscribe to a feed that has a .torrent file in the enclosure, uTorrent will take over after downloading it. This requires a little bit of setup, which I have outlined below.
• Since ClickOnce is used, when a new version is available, the user is prompted to download it.

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