What is a Podcast?
What is a podcast?
It's a way to listen to audio files, radio or TV programming to your computer and/or portable device. To do this, 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 an iPod or other portable media player. The range includes programs which allow you to listen to podcasts on mobile phones and Pocket PCs, as well as computers running Mac or Linux OS.
Once you have set up and acquainted yourself with the podcasting software, then copy & paste the subscription URL listed above 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'.
Where do I get podcasting software?
Follow this link for a useful list of podcasting applications. Juice Receiver and iTunes are popular podcast applications.
Where can I get more information?