I was able to get past the download loop problem, but sometimes adding a new feed has this problem. And sometimes, a few days later, it wants to download stuff all over again, too. Sometimes I thought it might be because a new podcast had moved their files to a beefier server (new url, client didn’t know it was same file, ok, fine), but it looks like in most cases, iPlodderX was just plain stupid.

I’ve been playing with iTunes - Podcast Edition for a day now. Took me only a few minutes to figure it out and get stuff working. Some feeds were essentially ’slashdotted’ (slammed by millions of new users’ traffic) but other than that, it works great. I think Apple’s done a fine job - it handles all the basics and a few more advanced features as well. I does everything I need, at least for now, so that works for me and I’m a tough sell in general (what do you expect? I do QA for a living).

I think it’s time the folks working on iPlodderX wake up and smell the coffee. Spend more time in design and bug fixing, don’t rush your releases out and make the client SOLID and with a richer feature set. THEN you might have a future for your software, otherwise, you’re gonna be eating iTunes dust, baby…