Hi Søren,

You asked:
>Thank you so much for your answer. The danish keyboard layout is crap,  
>so I can't either use command  and left and right brackets commands  
>for expand and colaps the folders.

The command right and left bracket commands are undocumented shortcuts
that were reported at Mac OS X Hints, so maybe it's not surprising that these
don't work generally.

I did find a link that describes how you can change your default keyboard,
but that's probably too drastic a solution!  Anyway, here it is at Mac OS X
Hints:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060601175751872&mode=print

They tell you  to run setup assistant again and input your keyboard choice.

<begin excerpt>
The solution is simple enough: run Setup Assistant again. Open Terminal (in 
/Applications/Utilities), and type:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup Assistant.app\
/Contents/MacOS/Setup Assistant
<end excerpt>

>Do you know which folder are the podcasts downloaded to as default? I  
>didn't saw Itunes is set  to download podcasts automaticly. I'm  
>subscribed to over 20 podcast feeds.

Podcasts you subscribe to through the iTunes store, or by selecting the
"Subscribe to podcast" option on the Advanced menu of the iTunes
menu bar (VO-keys+m then type "A" to go to Advanced menu, down
arrow twice to the subscribe option and return; then type or paste in
a podcast feed address into the text box for URL and return) are stored
in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Podcasts/   in folders arranged by
podcast subscription name.  For example, one of these folders might
be "Screenless Switchers -" and another "Blind Cool Tech".  Inside
each folder are the individual episodes.

There is an iTunes "Show in Finder" command that will show you where
each selected track is in a finder window.  The keyboard shortcut is
command-r.  For podcasts I believe you may have to select specific
podcast episodes to use command-r, but you can always use the
command-up arrow shortcut to navigate up a level in finder and
then use command-down arrow to get back to the selected podcasts.

Also, you can always check your podcasts in the songs outline and
manually download specific episodes.  Select "Podcasts" in the
sources outline and tab to the songs outline and interact.  You can
winnow down the displayed selections in the songs outline by typing
part of a name for the podcast subscription in the search text field,
just as for music selections.

Open the folder and VO-keys down arrow to check the podcast
episodes. Use the contextual menu to update the feed or
download an episode.

I wish there were an option in the contextual menu that would go
to the podcast's page in the iTunes store, so that it is possible to
sample new episodes before downloading, but there isn't.

I can only sample episodes if I have the podcast URL page at 
iTunes saved, although some podcast web pages will give you
this link.  Apple is still fiddling with these features.

HTH

Cheers,

Esther

>On 05/03/2008, at 19.25, Esther wrote:
>
>> Hi Dennis, Shaun, Søren, Jessie and Others,
>>
>> Dennis originally asked:
>>>>>> DB:  I have subscribed to several podcasts in ITunes.  When  
>>>>>> working
>>>>>> with the taple VO says colapsed for all of the podcasts.  How do I
>>>>>> click to expand these podcasts?
>>
>> and several people replied with the answer that the general command  
>> for
>> expanding/collapsing folders, VO-keys+backslash, works here. Søren
>> mentioned that for non-English keyboards, you need to use the  
>> VoiceOver
>> help (VO-keys+h pressed twice) to find the command sequence.
>>
>>>>> JH: while interacting with the table press vo and the \ key.
>>
>>>> DB: Thanks.  Now, how do I colapse the podcasts?
>>
>>> SJ; Do it again and you'll get the result you want.
>>
>> There are 3 sets of command you can use to expand/collapse podcast
>> folders in iTunes after interacting with the songs outline:
>>
>> 1. VO-keys+backslash  acts as a toggle to expand or collapse a  
>> specific
>> podcast folder
>>
>> 2. Command-] (that's Command+right bracket -- the key next to the  
>> backslash
>> key) to open, and command-[ (that's Command+left bracket) to close.  
>> These
>> will expand or collapse all podcast folders in your Songs outline at  
>> once.
>> You must issue the command from the songs outline
>>
>> 3. Command-option-right bracket (same command as 2. but with the  
>> option
>> key held down) resyncs all your podcast feeds and also expands all the
>> podcast folders when it does so.  (Resync will get information about  
>> all
>> available podcasts on all feeds, so I generally don't use this).
>>
>> The last two commands are general Mac OS X shortcuts that were  
>> mentioned
>> in discussion of a Mac OS X hints column:
>>
>> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060529055059150&mode=print
>>
>> These commands were discussed more fully in this forum in December,
>> e.g, in the archives:
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg24236.html
>>
>> details differences between resyncing and refreshing feeds
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg23977.html
>>
>> gave a bit more discussion about bulk open and close.
>>
>> I think the command-right bracket  and command-left bracket commands  
>> to open
>> and close all folders work when you tab to the Songs outline for  
>> podcasts even
>> if you don't interact.  As I recall, the command-option-right  
>> bracket command to
>> open and resync all podcasts required that you interact with a  
>> podcast folder
>> in the songs outline that is closed.  YMMV.  The simple open and  
>> close commands
>> also work for radio streams.  But it can take a _long_ time to open  
>> all radio
>> streams at once.
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Esther
>>
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