What is a podcast?
A podcast is a radio show that you can download onto your computer and listen to whenever you want. You can download specific podcasts or subscribe to a podcast program so that it automatically downloads onto your computer whenever a new episode is available.
Once the podcast is on your computer, you can listen to it there using your favourite media player, or transfer it onto your MP3 player to listen to it on the move. You can also subscribe and listen to more than one podcast using iTunes.
How do I download an individual podcast?
If you want to listen to an individual episode of Radio Royal York, follow the “podcast” link in the right sidebar “Browse by Category” section. From there you can select an episode and listen to it using the site’s audio player. Or, you can right-click on the “download” link and click “save as” to save the episode to your desktop.
Can I subscribe to more than one podcast?
Subscribing to a podcast allows you to automatically receive new episodes whenever they are broadcast. All episodes of Radio Royal York are available via RSS subscription through Feedburner, the leading provider of media distribution services for blogs and RSS feeds. To subscribe, just click on the Radio Royal York podcast feed link in the right side bar on the Radio Royal York HomePage and Feedburner will do the rest.
FeedBurner makes it easy to receive content updates in popular feed readers such as MyYahoo, NewsGater, Bloglines, Google Reader, Odeo and others. The reader checks the subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds. Users typically subscribe to a feed by copying the feed’s link into the reader, or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process.
Feedburner also allows you to send a link to the episode by e-mail.
How do I subscribe using iTunes?
If you have iTunes installed, just click the “Add to iTunes” icon displayed in the right side bar on the Radio Royal York HomePage. The iTunes program will load and from then on, every new episode will be downloaded into iTunes and, optionally, into your iPod.
