SuperPodder

SuperPodder is a lightweight Windows application designed specifically for helping you download feeds using straightforward actions. The audio feeds can be managed from a simple-XML based file which can be altered using your dedicated editor.

This is a Java-based utility so you need to previously install the environment on your computer in order to make it work properly.

SuperPodder sports a clean and simple layout that hides only a few configuration settings under the hood. There’s support for a help manual that shows a brief description of the program’s capabilities.

You may easily start or stop the downloading process, and check out a log which includes information about your actions and possible errors.

SuperPodder gives you the possibility to specify the saving directory where the history files are stored (in order to prevent duplicate downloads) and pick the download and feed folders.

What’s more, you are allowed to limit the maximum number of parallel downloads to a custom number, activate the torrent link, and set the torrent folder.

The application lets you make use of a pre-download button in order to estimate the size of the grabbed files for the current session, view the progress of the parallel streams in the main window, and set the number of downloads in order to grab the most recent episodes (if you enter 3, then the utility looks for and downloads the most recent podcasts).

In the XML files you can find three levels of hierarchy: main, group and feed tag. The group tag offers you the freedom to group feeds together in a logical group (e.g. ‘Science,’ ‘Travel,’ ‘Documentary’), while the feed tag is used for storing the actual feed URL and the number of MP3 files the feed is split into.

All things considered, SuperPodder comes with a basic feature pack for helping you download podcasts. The tool carries out the downloading process pretty quickly and eats up a moderate amount of CPU and memory resources.