What's a Podcast?
We all know mp3's as being the little file that represents the audiotrack from the CD on our pc's. Lots of Mp3's can be organised by programs like Itunes or winamp. A podcast is basically nothing more than an mp3 although it tends not to be limited to just songs. Primarilly they are used for transmitting radioshows, news or documentaries. The advantage is that the emmision gets downloaded and can be listened to afterwards, even in places where you don't have an internet connection. This means that it can also be copied to your Ipod.
Let's say that we like show ABC on channel XYZ. We'll surf to the website of channel XYZ to find more information on show ABC. This show happens to have emmisions by podcasts. For this the website will supply us with a podcast feed which is basically the same as a link. Instead of starting with http: it will start with feed: . This link you can copy to a mp3 playing program that allows podcasts, like itunes. In Itunes this is done by the menu advanced>subscribe to podcast... which will take you to a window where you copy the link.
From this moment Itunes will download the latest emmision of your favorite program and show you when new ones arrived. When you attach an Ipod you can tell itunes to transfer some emmisions to the Ipod so you can listen to them on the way to work.
