Esther,
Your information has been welcomme, appreciated and *extremely* helpful.
Thanks!
On Mar 31, 2007, at 10:07 PM, Esther wrote:
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?
Sorry for another afterthought. You _should_ be able to just use the
general Search field (command-option F) in iTunes to search for the
Blind Cool Tech podcast when you've selected the iTunes Store in
your source pane. The problem is that the search goes through
everything in the iTunes Store. It's OK for running Music searches, but
in practice a search for podcasts done this way will time out without
finding anything. And it's absolutely awful trying to search this way
when the store is really busy -- like when there are lots of customers
wanting to try out a new feature like iTV. That's why searching for
podcasts limited by category is preferable. You can often make this
search work even when the store is impossibly busy for music searches.
In practice, I just save this address for the podcast search as a
bookmark.
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*).
And this really is my last comment on this topic!
Cheers,
Esther
