Hi Denise,
On Apr 25, 2011, at 14:36, Denise Avant wrote:
> Hello all,
> i have experienced a couple of recent problems with itunes.
> 1. i have located a podcast through the apple store called website wednesday
> night. I added the feed in itunes, yet when it is time to download any of the
> podcasts, i get a podcast ailed message. i cannot understand why this has
> happened as the feed came straight from the apple store.
I just looked for this podcast ("WGN Website Wednesday Night"). It appears
that they produced 10 episodes between July and September of 2005, and then
stopped using that feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/smb-wwn). The web page
for the site just started posting to a new webcasts page, but don't appear to
have a dedicated feed for podcasts only, only a way to download from their web
pages:
http://savemybutt.com/category/webcasts/
So the answer to your question is that their podcast feed at the iTunes Store
is out of date, and probably should be removed or the information updated to
point to a new feed if they create one (for the podcasts started up and being
produced 6 years later). I would unsubscribe and delete the entry.
> 2. sometimes, i see two feeds for the same podcast, the second of which i did
> not create. so for example, i see my original feed for serotalk, but also
> serotalk1 has been created somehow.
Duplicate podcast subscription entries appear when the source of the podcast
feed changes, or if the producer has changed the show name associated with the
feed. You can check whether this has happened by selecting one of the episodes
from each feed, then using the contextual menu (VO-Shift-M) to choose "Copy
URL". Then paste the feed URL into a TextEdit window. Do the same for an
episode in the other feed, then check whether the two addresses are different.
Sometimes the developer maintains more than one feed source, or changes the
feed. Early BBC Radio 4 podcasts showed up under one feed address when they
gave a direct feed to use for subscription, and then under another when they
pointed to a different feed address in iTunes. "In Our Time" changed the way
they named the series a while back, so I have two different folders for the
historical content.
> 3. i am wondering if podcasts exists for blind access journal blog and
> podcast and vision australia's mini podcast on the use of the mac.
Finding and adding podcasts from the iTunes Store is fairly straight-forward.
For example, the iTunes URLs for the podcasts you asked about in your third
question are:
• Blind Access Journal Blog:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/blind-access-journal/id398449775
• Vision Australia's podcast series on Apple Accessibility:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/apple-accessibility/id423121261
Navigate to any of the "View in iTunes" links or find them with item chooser
menu and VO-Space. Then, in iTunes, navigate to the "Subscribe Free" button and
press (VO-Space) to subscribe. The easy way to find podcasts in the iTunes
Store is to use the Power Search feature, which lets you choose the category of
the search you want to perform (music, audiobooks, podcasts, apps, movies,
etc.) and enter search information in any text field. While there is a link to
"Power Search" from the iTunes Store home page, and most main home pages
(music, tv shows, etc.), the quick way to access this is by using the "Search…"
menu option under the "Store" menu on the iTunes menu bar. (This selects the
iTunes Store in the source list table, and also loads the power search page in
to the HTML area. Because the power search page is text only, going to this
page directly is a fast way to get into iTunes from your home library, since
you're not loading the graphics and complex HTML pages of the main store page,
and will encounter fewer "iTunes, busy" alerts.)
Change the first pop up menu button from "All Results" to "Podcasts", then type
in search terms into any of the fields. (I couldn't find a match to "Vision
Australia" in the podcast name, so I tried typing David Woodbridge's name as
the search term under the "Author" field).
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
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