Hi Esther,
asking this out of curiosity?
We have a station here n Toronto who has just switched to providing their
podcasts only via itunes, as in the link looks for itnues on your computer
before even letting you consider getting the show, smiles.
It is frustrating as I was previously subscribed via e-mail, and I am not
an itunes user.
is there any way to break the cycle? to for example get someone to
subscribe me for the podcast at itunes, but not require itunes after that
is done, allowing me to use my own programs for playing podcasts?
The hint given is that itunes is for organizing only, even though I know you
can play things there too.
Hope my question makes sense,
Karen
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Esther wrote:
Hi Sarah,
I've always been able to use either method for subscribing to podcasts in
iTunes: (1) finding the podcast in the iTunes Store and subscribing or (2)
add the podcast feed in the Advanced menu of iTunes. Admittedly, I don't use
the second method as often now, since if I use the iTunes Store podcasts
pages I have a lot more options for inspecting episodes and content, and even
for providing a direct link to a specific episode. I generally only use the
Advanced menu to subscribe when the podcast has no entry in the iTunes Store
podcast pages. For example, Serotek's podcast series is not at the iTunes
Store, so I use the feed to subscribe:
http://serotalk.com/feed
The usual problem people have with the "Subscribe to podcast" menu option
under the Advanced menu is that they may be using an address that is not a
feed. Entering:
http://www.blindcooltech.com/bct.xml
works for Blind Cool Tech subscriptions, but entering the main BCT web page
address does not. Some podcast distributors change their feed addresses. In
that case, your entries for the podcast series will be grouped under a second
subscription with the same name. This happened with the BBC Radio 4 "In Our
Times" podcast a couple of years ago -- I had the original podcast feed added
from their web page, and it stopped updating correctly and could not be fixed
even by refreshing the feed. So I had to switch my subscription as though I
were starting as a new subscriber at the iTunes Store.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
Sarah Alawami wrote:
To use a feed for the adv anced subscribing to podcasts fails almost every
time initunes. only when I had an actuall itunes feed di I get that to
work. I wonder why..
On Mar 30, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Esther wrote:
> Hello Martin,
>
> There are actually two issues you are experiencing in downloading MP3
> files, and one is specific to the design of the Blind Cool Tech web
> pages: you first have to interact (VO+Shift+Down Arrow) with the link
> entry before you can use either of the suggestions that were made (e.g.
> bring up the context menu with VO+Shift+M and find the option to download
> the linked item or to save it as a file, or use the keyboard shortcut of
> Option+Enter to force downloading of the file).
>
> I usually access the Blind Cool Tech RSS feed at:
> http://www.blindcooltech.com/bct.xml
> instead of using the main web page for this reason, and also because the
> feed page is much faster to load as well as not having the links embedded
> in elements so that you first have to interact to access them. However,
> only the 40 latest episodes are listed on the feed site, so you may need
> to go to the main BCT site for earlier episodes. You can also subscribe
> to the Blind Cool Tech podcasts in iTunes by navigating to the "Advanced"
> menu on the iTunes menu bar (VO+Shift+M then press "A"), arrowing down to
> "Subscribe to Podcast…", pressing Enter, and then typing or pasting in
> the feed address into the dialogue window that comes up, and press
> (VO-Space) the "OK" button.
>
> The podcasts will show up in iTunes under the "Podcasts" playlists.
> You'll need to select this in the sources table of iTunes (after
> interacting), then navigate to the Songs table, interact, and expand the
> list of podcasts with VO-Shift-Backslash. Then you can start any episode
> playing by pressing enter on the highlighted episode and pressing the
> space bar to pause/resume play.
>
> HTH. Subscribing to a podcast is not usually so involved; they still
> haven't fixed the bug in the Blind Cool Tech episodes listed at the
> iTunes feed that cropped up a couple of years ago. You might just be able
> to use the "Subscribe" button at the iTunes Store, but the way I've
> outlined will work for sure.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Esther
>
> On 30 Mar 2010, at 00:46, Scott Howell wrote:
>
> > One final suggestion. You can always use VO-command-f5 to bring the
> > mouse focus to that link, hold control and then click the physical
> > mouse. That will bring up the context menu.
> > On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:33 AM, M BROWN wrote:
> >
> > > Thank all those who responded to my query about downloading MP3
> > > files. However, none of the suggestions have worked. I have tried
> > > holding down the shift/control/option keys while pressing the letter
> > > M. This does bring up a menu, but within that menu there is nothing
> > > about saving target or anything similar. I have also held down the
> > > option key and pressed enter while on the link for the file I want to
> > > download. This merely downloads a html document relating to the
> > > archive page of the Blind Cool Tec site. Any further suggestions
> > > would be very much appreciated.
> > > Kind regards, Martin
> > >
>
>
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