Podcast Question

[MoltenMan]

I didn't want to ask this in a podcast thread as to not disrupt that particular thread's discussion, so this was the next best place I could think to ask.

Anyway. I work a second shift security job, and I do quite a few foot patrols around the building late at night. This past July I got a new iPhone 4, and have had it clipped to my belt listening to music off of Pandora, etc. And then it occured to me last night.

"I can listen to daizex podcasts!"

Only, I've never listened to them beyond the computer.

I found the podcasts on iTunes from my phone, and selected to listen to the newest one available. It put it in my iTunes podcast playlist on my phone but when I tried to play it I'd get a prompt that told me I needed a Wi-Fi connection to download and listen to it. To me, podcasts have been around for a while, and surprised me it that it needed a Wi-Fi signal to transfer data rather than the phone network signal.

Am I going about this wrong? What's the easiest way to get these suckers on my phone?

[VegettoEX]

Yeah, you're doing it wrong . Well, not really. Just hitting a snag.

What you're doing is trying to download data from the iTunes Store on the phone itself over the cell network. AT&T (and I think Verizon) cap downloads for that type of stuff (anything in the store - songs, apps, podcasts, etc.) at 20 MB. If you're on Wi-Fi, you can download anything you want from the store right on the phone, including larger things like podcasts.

The easiest way to get things all nicely synced up and transferred is to subscribe to the podcast via the iTunes application on your computer. All you need to do is click this link right here and you can get to the podcast's listing in the iTunes Store (it may bring you to the web version of the iTunes Store, in which case you can click through to the application's listing). If you're in iTunes itself, you can also just click the "iTunes Store" listing in the left-hand navigation, and then search (upper-right box) for "Daizenshuu EX".

Once you're in the store, click that big ol' subscribe button! You'll immediately start downloading the most recent episode, and then from there on out, you'll automatically download new episodes as soon as they're released. You can transfer them over to the phone the same way you transfer over music and movies and such (either manually like I do, or telling iTunes to automatically sync everything in the library).

Ta-dah! Enjoy!

[MoltenMan]

Ah, sweet. Thanks so much for the help.

I'll have to do this when I get home from work tonight.

It gets awful quiet around here sometimes. Be nice to have something like that to listen to on my patrols. I also just started my first semester of college back in September and have to get up really early to go there and a lot of times I don't feel awake enough to start blaring Metallica and Megadeth out of my truck speakers. Just have a nice relaxing drive listening to discussions related to one of my favorite things.

[desirecampbell]

For anyone using iTunes, that's the easiest way to do it, but for anyone not using iTunes you can grab the RSS feed here and pop that into whatever media library software you use. (Or, if you hate convenience, you can use a regular RSS reader to alert you of the new podcast and you can download it manually).