TWO WAYS TO DOWNLOAD A PODCAST USING APPLE'S iTUNES

(If you don't have iTunes, download it here)


 

CHOOSE FROM AN iTUNES LIST

  1. Open iTunes Music Store and click on Podcasts. That opens a new page.
  2. Click on a category (or choose one of the podcasts listed on this page).
  3. Another page opens. Select Podcasts in the first column and a topic in the second. A list of all of all the podcasts of that kind available through iTunes will appear in the space below. Select one.
  4. If you want an idea of what the podcast is like, double-click on it. That will open an audio stream.
  5. If you want it to be part of your list, click the SUBSCRIBE button.
  6. That will take you to a page with a description of the show and a list of available podcasts. Click SUBSCRIBE or just the GET EPISODE button.
  7. And off you go to the download page, where iTunes installs a folder and begins to download the most recent file. Spinning orange circles tell you which podcasts are being downloaded. (Each time you open iTunes, it looks for recent additions to your subscriptions and downloads them.)
  8. You can download earlier podcasts by clicking on the GET button.

 
1 Music Store list     2 Categories list
 
3 Podcast list.
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6 Subscription page
 
7 Detail of downloading screen. Shows the spinning circle.
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FIND A PODCAST ON THE WEB

Use Google or return to the Where to find podcasts page and the lists of directories and programs to locate sites with podcast feeds. Those sites may have one or more buttons like these that you can use to connect.

If there is an RSS button in the address window of your browser, clicking on it will take you to a page with a list of that site's RSS feeds.

Examples of feeds:
   feed://www.nrwa.org/rss/show.php
   http://www.apodcast.com/cast.xml

Install the feed by opening the Advanced menu, selecting Subscribe to Podcast, and pasting the feed in the box.

   NOTES ON USING iTUNES

Delete podcasts by selecting them and hitting the delete key.

End or temporarily stop a subscription by selecting the file and clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE  button.

 

Moving files to your player
You can drag-and-drop podcasts from iTunes to your player. If you don't have iTunes or can't sync the files, search the computer for one of the podcasts and use that to locate the file that holds all of them. Drag files from there to your player.

Syncing How to sync an iPod

Moving files from your player
In order to discourage piracy, iPods are designed to prevent the exportation of files. If you lose your iPod or it crashes, tough luck. Fortunately there are free third-party programs that make it possible to back up your files.

OSX: Senuti     iPodDisk
Windows: SharePod

 
X M L, i-podder x, i-tunes, my yahoo, and R S S podcast
 
 
Newsweek R S S
 
Example of a Newsweek feed
 
feed box
 

 
Arrows from iTunes and from a folder to a digital player's files