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iTunes' built-in podcasting; revisiting public radio podcasts and RSS feeds

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With iTunes 4.9 you can now browse, find, sample and subscribe to thousands of free podcasts — radio shows delivered over the Internet to your computer — then sync them to your iPod and listen anytime, anywhere.

Perhaps this is also a good day to revisit our links to indices of non-commercial and public radio podcasts. If you haven’t visited yet, it’s basically a meta-index I’ve been building of places that point to podcasts from NPR, PRI, the BBC, and regional stations, so there’s tons of good stuff in there.

PublicRadioFan.com’s podcast directory is still my favorite, just because I love the larger PRF site, which includes detailed listings of “what’s on now” that should be a regular stop if you enjoy public radio.

Remember, also, that NPR has handy RSS feeds of their upcoming show listings. Learn who’s coming up on Fresh Air and ATC early on and right in your favorite reader.

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Dabe's picture

FWIW, the "Podcasts" genre on...

FWIW, the “Podcasts” genre on the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) is very rich.

Their Top Ten Podcasts are (currently):

  1. iTunes New Music
  2. Inside Mac Radio
  3. Engadget Podcast
  4. this WEEK in TECH
  5. The Al Franken Show
  6. Podfinder (Adam Curry)
  7. BBC News | World
  8. ESPN Radio Podcast
  9. Adam Curry: Daily Download
    1. Air America Radio

I suspect this will settle down a little bit as more and more people start downloading. (For instance, when I looked this morning, ESPN Radio was #1.)

They also have a nice breakdown by category (Sports, Comedy, Science, News, Movies & Television, etc.)

IMHO, it’s well worth a look (and of course, it’s all free.)

freecia's picture

All this talk of the...

All this talk of the BBC, NPR. I was up in Washington and got to hear the CBC- Canadian Broadcast Radio. Can you really resist something called “Nerd podcast”? http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/

Dieter's picture

I'm also a big fan...

I’m also a big fan of RadioTiki (podcast)…

sarge's picture

what's your favorite podcasts?...

what’s your favorite podcasts?

Rob's picture

GeekNewsCentral is one of my...

GeekNewsCentral is one of my favorites, why is it not on the list GRRRRR!

Chris's picture

I always thought "podcasts" were...

I always thought “podcasts” were silly until I understood it was just Tivo for radio. Personally, I don’t care to hear Joe ‘Merica’s thoughts on anything, but the NPR shows interest me.

Sadly, I was a founding engineer waaay back in the 1999 dot-com days of a company that created tools and hosted services for web-based amateur “radio” talkshows: Wonderhorse. RIP.

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Profile: iTunes 4.9 Service: iTunes 4.9...

Profile: iTunes 4.9

Service: iTunes 4.9 with Podcasts

Launched: June 28, 2005

What is it? As was widely anticipated, iTunes 4.9 launched today (22 mb download) for both windows and mac platforms. It includes significant new and enhanced features, including, most not…

 
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