The Listen Online Option
Well, this is pretty self explanatory. Mom Daughter Connection Radio and most other programs offer a
simple way to listen to each new show right on the website. This is called ‘streaming the audio’. When you listen this way, no files are being downloaded onto your computer at all – you just listen and when you’re finished you have nothing to delete or clean off of your computer.
In my case, you can visit the post and click on the play button and the audio starts to play or click play in pop-up window and a pop-up window will open and you can click the play button. This option will
allow you to navigate away from the homepage and still listen to the show.
The Manual Download Option
A podcast is simply an mp3 file that has been setup to be delivered via an RSS subscription. I always offer the mp3 file as a manual download for those who don’t want to mess around with the RSS feed. Just
click on the ‘Listen Now’ button on my site and right click on the ‘Mp3 File’ link to save it to your computer.
After it downloads, you can do whatever you likewith it. Burn it to a CD, send it to your Mp3 player or listen right on your computer without being connected to the internet. After you’ve listened you can
delete it.
The iTunes Option
iTunes is the Media Player offered by Apple.com. iTunes is an easy option and used by more podcast listeners than anything else.
You don’t have to have a Mac computer in order to use iTunes as they do offer iTunes for the PC. And you don’t have to own an iPod in order to make use of iTunes.
To download iTunes visit:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Once you have iTunes on your computer you can just click on this button to subscribe to our show.
If the button doesn’t work, open iTunes and…
Click to Subscribe!
You can search for other great topics that interest you or you can simply browse the directory by category.
Find other great Mom related podcasts:
http://www.momsradionetwork.com
iTunes acts as your little Podcasting Assistant. Once you have subscribed to some shows, you can tell it how often you want it to check for new episodes and whether you want it to download the episodes automatically or manually. (Click on Podcasts and then Edit, Preferences.) If you choose manually, it will only tell you that a new show is available – then it will download it when you click to ‘get it’.
I personally like to open my iTunes before I go to bed and tell it to automatically download any new episodes that it detects on my list. This way it is gobbling up my internet
connection speed while I sleep and I have fresh audio to listen to in the morning.
You can listen to episodes right in iTunes – either through your speakers or through a headset.
You can easily send the audio files over to your iPod.
You can burn audio files to a CD using iTunes. Information about this can be found by clicking on the Help link in iTunes.
You can also click and drag your podcast files out of iTunes to transfer them to non-Apple portable mp3 player..
If you already have a different Podcast Receiver installed you can add our feed by adding this address to your receiver: http://feeds.feedburner.com/momdaughterconnection
