Podcasting on iTunes
What is Podcasting?
Podcasting is downloading files to a computer that have video or audio content. These can then be watched/listened to from that computer or put on an mp3 player, like an iPod. The term combines “pod” from the iPod and “casting” from broadcasting. It is a new way to send and receive media, just like radio and television when they were created. This is done using the same RSS feed concept that is used in blogging.
1. The podcasting section on iTunes is located on the left hand side of the application, under Library.
2. To subscribe to a podcast, search the iTunes Store, or link through a website that does a podcast. Examples. ALD Live, This American Life.
3. Podcasts will download as much as the “podcaster” allows. They will do one at a time, or three at a time. There is a “get all” feature when there is an option to download more than one episode of a podcast.
4. Progress of the download can be tracked by clicking on download on the left hand side of the iTunes application. This is only available when something is being downloaded.
5. When a podcast is finished downloading it will have a blue dot next to the episode title to indicate that it is a new episode. The podcast channel will also have a dot, to indicate new episodes. The podcast button will now list the number of how many new podcasts there are.
6. Double clicking plays a podcast. Once a podcast is played the blue dot goes away and the total of new podcasts updates.
7. Depending on settings iTunes will download new episodes of the podcast as they come available, or clicking refresh will manually check for new episodes.
8. These can now be transferred to an iPod. Depending on your iPods settings this can be set up to do automatically, or new episodes can be added by dragging them from the podcast screen to the iPod icon. This icon only appears when an iPod is attached.
9. It is easy to unsubscribe from a podcast. Just click “unsubscribe at the bottom of the iTunes application.
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