09 Oct 08 help with podcasts

What is a podcast?

Podcasting is a convenient way of automatically downloading audio or video files to your computer. You can then play this audio or video on your computer or transfer the files to a portable MP3 or video player.

‘Podcast’ generally refers to audio. ‘Video Podcast’ (or ‘Vodcast’) refers to the distribution of video files in the same manner.

To get the podcast, you subscribe to the podcast by downloading a small piece of software that manages all of your podcast subscriptions. When connected to the internet, the software searches for the latest edition of the program on our website, and will download the media file to a folder on your computer, where you can listen or watch it from there, or transfer it to your portable mp3/video player. This means that you don’t have to manually search for new programs to download on this website. It happens automatically!

How do I subscribe to a podcast?

Download podcasting software such as Juice Receiver (an Open Source cross platform podcast receiver), Apple’s iTunes for Mac and Windows or similar podcasting software. These programs allow you to schedule regular updates to your selected downloads with a portable media player.

Once you have set up and acquainted yourself with the podcasting software, then copy & paste the subscription URL into the URL box in your podcasting program. This will add the selected program to your podcasting subscriptions.

In iTunes you do this by going to your podcast library folder and clicking on ‘Advanced’ and then ‘Subscribe to Podcast’.

If you want to receive these programs regularly, make sure the scheduling function on your podcasting software is set to search for new podcasts automatically

Where do I get podcasting software?

Examples of popular podcast software include: iTunes, Juice and Miro Media Player

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