Apple’s itunes store has a comprehensive list of popular audio and video podcasts which are ‘free’ to stream or download.Recently,I stumbled across a link to a great podcast leading to its itunes preview webpage.As a linux user I wasn’t able to subscribe to it with my favorite player as the podcasts only work with itunes.With a bit of Googling I found a simple workaround to download or stream them in Amarok and Rhythmbox ."Apple-converted-space"> and choose your favorite podcast.If the page asks permission to open rhythmbox or any other application just click cancel.After choosing the podcast,the itunes preview page for the podcast will be shown(see image below). Copy the URL of the current page.
One of my favorite sections is the Software How To section here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/podcasts-technology-software/id1480
Step 1
First visit this link at the iTunes Store Podcasts section and choose your favorite podcast. Here is the url http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/podcasts/id26 . If the page asks permission to open rhythmbox or any other application just click cancel.After choosing the podcast,the itunes preview page for the podcast will be shown(see image below).Copy the URL of the current page.
First visit this link at the iTunes Store Podcasts section and choose your favorite podcast. Here is the url http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/podcasts/id26 . If the page asks permission to open rhythmbox or any other application just click cancel.After choosing the podcast,the itunes preview page for the podcast will be shown(see image below).Copy the URL of the current page.
One of my favorite sections is the Software How To section here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/podcasts-technology-software/id1480
Step 2
Go to this link which leads to a site called Feed Flipper.It’s a great online tool which converts itunes podcast feeds into RSS XML feeds.Insert the copied link(from Step 1) into the feedflipper site as shown below.
Choose the number of episodes to download and you’ll get a pretty lengthy link below(As shown in the screenshot).Now copy that URL.
Step 3
Open Amarok 2.x.Go to the Podcasts section and click on the ‘Add Podcast’ button.Paste the link from step 2 in the window that pops up and enjoy your podcasts.To watch video podcasts just switch to/add the video applet.To get more information about the podcast you may add the Info applet.For more information about Podcasts in Amarok 2.3 see this video.
Rhythmbox users can add the podcast(audio only) by opening Rhythmbox and pressing Ctrl + P then entering the URL.This works on other players too as the procedure remains more or less the same.
