Subscribe to YouTube channel in iTunes

Question

What is the best way to subscribe to a YouTube channel and have it show up in iTunes as a podcast? I want iTunes to automatically download the videos in MP4 format or download them in FLV and convert them to MP4 in iPod format.

I have used these services in the past but they don't seem to be working anymore:

RSSHandler

Youtube Podcaster

Answer 1

Not exactly what you want but Miro does a pretty good job of consolidating Youtube downloads and Video podcasts. Not sure if you can get it to serve up a podcast of what it's downloaded though.

Also noticed this http://vixy.net/podcaster/ haven't tried it though.

Answer 2

I tried http://vixy.net/podcaster/ but their server seems to be having problems right now.

I did not solve my problem exactly the way I wanted to but this solution is pretty close.

I am using Tooble which will download and convert YouTube videos. It even has a place where you can enter a YouTube users' username and it will show all videos in their channel. Then the trick to get the videos automatically added to iTunes was to configure it to save all videos to C:\Users\MyUsername\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Automatically Add to iTunes

Answer 3

RSS Handler seems to do it just fine. http://code.google.com/p/rsshandler/

The UI is not extremely user friendly, but it's quite nice anyway. You enter the username in the ID box. Then you generate the URL and copy it into iTunes (menu : Advanced > Subscribe to podcast).