Hi David, >hmm, the old way sounds simpler <grin> I got the feed. it was >blindcooltech.com with something.xml at the end of it. It seems to >work. Is there any way just to browse all the podcasts on the ITunes >store?
The problem is that you need to know either the address of the feed or the iTunes address of the podcast page to find it under iTunes. If the authors of podcasts posted a link to their iTunes podcast page on their web sites you could browse and get individual podcast episodes without having to subscribe and be taken to the right page in the podcast section of the iTunes Store automatically without having to do anything except click the link in your browser. You could just start interacting with the Songs Outline and reading the description of individual episodes. You could choose to download any episode by arrowing across to the "Free" column and selecting with VO-keys+shift+space. Then you'd only find the selected episodes in your Podcast Library. Only a very few number of podcast sites provide such a link, and since there's no way for you to know the podcast ID number that was assigned to the authors, you can't guess how to find this. Here's an example from the free "This American Life" podcast web pages. They give links to both their RSS feed, and a link to their Podcast web page in iTunes which goes to: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=201671138 If you click the link, or copy the address to your browser and return, you'll get taken to their podcast page under iTunes. Darcy and Holly could do this if they replace the id number with the id number assigned to their Screenless Switchers podcast. If you can get to this page, for example, if someone clicked the currently inaccessible links in iTunes to navigate to the podcast page, or if you did a LOT of experimenting with mousekeys moving around and clicking at the end of results of your podcast search you could find a "Copy URL" option in the contextual menu. So the Podcast webcast page address in iTunes for Blind Cool Tech is http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=78111172 If you want to try this, but you can't currently get this information with any ease in an accessible fashion. I'd guess this is coming in the next revisions. The web address podcast search using: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearch?mt=2 (everything should be on a single line in the browser) is another hack, but it lets you search for podcasts by keywords in the description, or by author or exact title. (Hint to Jane: put "Celtic Music" in the description field *grin*). HTH Cheers, Esther
