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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