Listening to Podcasts
Subscribing and listening to podcasts is easy. Check-out the following resources to learn how.
Subscribing to Podcasts
There are several ways you can utilize this space. The content below discusses how to subscribe to both the overall RSS feed for the site and those specific to individual "Podcast Shows."
If you would like your content delivered from this space, please contact us today and talk to us about what your needs are. This is a pilot of a podcasting service and the more we hear from you, the better the service will be. If you would like to have your podcasts hosted from the Podcasts at Penn State space, please send us an email at podcasts@psu.edu.
Single Podcasts
To listen to a single podcast, you can simply download the attached file for each entry. You can find this by clicking the title of the entry and then clicking the podcast tile located at the bottom of each post at this site. Clicking this link will initiate a download of the associated podcast in your browser. Typically, you will be able to listen right in your web browser, without a need for any additional software. Podcasts can range in size from a few megabytes to over 100 MB, so pay attention to the file sizes as you are selecting a podcast.
Subscribing to Podcasts
There are several ways to subscribe to podcasts. One thing to note is that each "Podcast Show" is made up of "Podcast Episodes." You may subscribe to everything here at Podcasts at Penn State by subscribing to the site's overall RSS feed, or you may slectively subscribe to just the Shows you want. For example, if you are interested in receiving everything that gets listed on Podcasts at Penn State, you would subscribe to the following feed:
Subscribe to our standard RSS feed to receive updates from this site automatically.
Subscribe to the podcasts using Apple's iTunes software and automatically receive podcasts as they are updated.
If you are only interested in listening to the podcasts for a specific course, you would subscribe to the feed for that course only. You can find the feeds for indivdual podcast shows listed below. Selecting this option allows you to receive podcast episodes to only a select group of Podcast Shows.
Academic
IST 110: Spring 2006 Subscribe | Subscribe in iTunes
Podcast Shows
ETS Talk Podcast Subscribe | Subscribe in iTunes
Agricultural Radio Subscribe | Subscribe in iTunes
ITS Podcasts Subscribe | Subscribe in iTunes
Podcatching Software
&&uotUsing a podcatching tool is the best way to subscribe to and receive podcasts automatically. Once you subscribe to a podcast feed, all episodes will be delivered to you via the podcatching software. Below you will find links to a small set of tools to use. Apple's iTunes software is a cross platform digital media management toolset that has a built-in podcast directory as well as podcatching features. Juice software is also cross platform. It allows a user to schedule podcast downloads and maintain subscriptions to their favorite podcasts. Fireant brings video content (vodcasts) to users in much the same way as Juice does for podcasts.
Other tools offer similar capabilities. Ultimately it is up to you to decide what software package works best for you.
Platform specific applications