welcome to see that top five for each
time we meet we can't done another hot
cnet list I'm Tom Merritt podcasts are
quite the popular thing with the kids
these days but did you know that there
are many different ways to subscribe
than just through iTunes we dipped into
our cnet logs to confirm that and came
back with data not that kind of data
let's count down the top 5 most popular
podcast clients at number five Firefox
yep you can just go into the RSS feed
and a good old browser and click on the
mp3s to listen and a bunch of you do
that well lets you firefox users do that
not so popular with the Opera Safari or
IE crowds coming in to number four soon
as you know the zune like the ipod has
its own store and owned syncing software
and that software you sync with can be
used to get your podcasts bad number
zune users zoom pride up to number three
TV tonic not only is this software that
touts itself is a way to connect to the
web video explosion it's also used in
windows media center so lots of media
center aficionados are listening to
podcast to watching them as well sliding
in at number two Miro formerly known as
democracy Miro is a free open-source way
to subscribe to video and audio RSS
feeds thus making it a likely candidate
for podcast downloading but as popular
as Miro is it still doesn't unseat the
top spot before we get to the top spot
let's check in on the top 5 mp3 players
you can listen to podcasts on any of
these all right let's get to our number
one the most popular piece of software
for downloading cnet podcasts at number
one it's itunes now would you expect you
know a few people remember that I Potter
was the best way to subscribe to podcast
before Apple added podcast support to
itunes now I Potters called juice and
iTunes is dominant we'll check back in
five years see how that stands however
you get your podcast I hope you enjoy
the ones we have here at podcast cnet
com that's it for this edition of Cena
top five whether you
podcasting this or streaming hope you
enjoyed it I'm Tom Merritt see you next
time
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