Hi Søren, It's possible to check out the latest episode of a podcast without downloading it from iTunes if you select the iTunes Store in your source list, tab to the search text field, type in the name of the podcast+return, then tab to the songs outline and interact. You can stream the latest episode of the selected podcast by pressing carriage return, and you can pause/resume it with the space bar just as you can when playing songs in your library. If you want to subscribe to the podcast VO-keys right arrow a few times to the column where you hear "free" and route your mouse cursor to your VoiceOver cursor (Control-Option-Command+F5 -- laptop users may need to add FN). (Skip this last step if you have "Mouse Cursor tracks VoiceOver Cursor" checked in your VoiceOver navigation options.)
I prefer to go to the iTunes page for the podcast, where I can sample any of the episodes that are available on the feed, read the episode description, and download individual episodes without subscribing to the podcast. It looks as though Apple is in the middle of upgrading the web-integrated search capabilities, so I can't simply tell you to get this location by using the contextual menu -- it's pointing to their testing suite right now, and it looks as though they've been adding tags so you can go to specific podcast episodes in the list. You can read one of the mail archive posts to see how this works, though: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg23751.html And you can try the example link given there for the Screenless Switchers podcast page at the iTunes Store at: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=161020459 (right now, if you were to use the "Copy iTunes Store URL" for this you would get: http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?d=161020459 and the different prefix (ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net instead of phobos.apple.com) only shows up source xml files in the browser instead of taking you to the iTunes page. HTH Cheers, Esther On Feb 21, 2008, at 05:16AM, Søren Jensen wrote: >Hi. > >I haven't checked out the podcast features on the Mac yet. Is it >possible to stream podcasts online without downloading them? I want to >subscribe to a lot of podcasts, but I don't want to download them. I >just want to check if there are some new podcasts. If there are some >new podcasts I want to hear, I just want to hear them online. Is this >possible on the Mac? If ITunes doesn't support this, are there other >alternatives? >Best regards >Søren Jensen
