Podcasting - Tips

Syncing Your iPod
If your iPod is set to automatically sync, just connect your iPod to download a new podcast. To specify which podcasts you would like synced to iPod, open the iPod preferences podcasts preferences. Here you can specify which specific podcasts to sync.

Listening to a Podcast on an iPod Shuffle
The Autofill feature of iTunes will not add podcasts to iPod shuffle. Instead, you should manually add podcasts to your iPod shuffle by dragging them to the iPod shuffle playlist. Also it’s important to know that Podcasts of type .m4b or AAC will not play on iPod shuffle when it is in shuffle mode. To play a podcast that is on iPod shuffle, set the switch on iPod shuffle to Play in order.

Bookmarking Feature
Just like when you listen to an audiobook, when you listen to a podcast on your iPod, and then connect it to your computer and play it in iTunes, iTunes will continue the podcast from where you left off. In addition, when you sync to your iPod, the podcast will start where you left off.

Managing Your Podcasts
In the podcast settings window you can select how many episodes of a particular podcast you will keep in iTunes. From the pull-down menu, you can select All episodes, All unplayed episodes or a specific number of episodes that you want to keep. Also, you can click the Unsubscribe button in the Source list to stop having new episodes of a specific podcast downloaded to iTunes.

What’s the difference between Internet radio, audio books and podcasts?
Unlike Internet radio and audio books, podcasts are subscription-based and use the RSS 2.0 file format. By subscribing to podcasts you get to listen to up-to-date content where and when you want.

Locating Your Downloaded Podcasts
To quickly access the podcast page from the iTunes music store, click Podcasts in the source list and then at the bottom of the page, click Podcast Directory.