Hi David, On Sunday, April 01, 2007, at 03:53AM, "David Poehlman" wrote:
>Esther and all, > >There are lots of waays to get direct links to podcasts though. I >know it can be tedious, but having the direct link and droping it >into the field under podcasts in ITunes is realy easy. >This brings up a question. I'm confused about why there is a >separate area in ITunes for podcasts when you can also apparently get >them through the store? I should have said that there is a "page" for each podcast under the iTunes Store that allows you to view all available episodes for that podcast subscription and their descriptions. This is like being able to view "open" folders for each podcast subscription in your library instead of just viewing the folders by name. When you run a search from the Advanced Podcast Search link that I gave (I'll repeat it here): http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearch?mt=2 you get results as a list of different podcasts you can subscrbe to, but no expanded display of podcast episodes. So you could go to the listing for Blind Cool Tech and play the latest episode, but you couldn't tell that there was an earlier Blind Cool Tech episode excerpted from the Screenless Switchers podcast about iTunes and read the description or play it, for example. There isn't an accessible way to open the pages for the individual podcast episodes that I know of yet, just as there is no way to purchase music by album accessibly. In each case the link (to access albums, or to open podcast pages) is not anchored somewhere that VoiceOver can navigate to exactly, again, AFAIK. It looks like the hooks are there in the contextual menu to open these pages in the future (a "Copy iTunes URL" option) for episodes listed in these podcast pages, so access is probably coming. Cheers, Esther
