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This post is here to help you enjoy the Grateful Dead Listening Guide’s Podcast Series. It will occasionally be updated, need be, and currently contains new feed address info for any of you currently subscribed to the podcast.
All podcast can be found via the linked menu on the left side of the site, and also under the label "podcasts."
There are a few different ways to listen to the podcasts. Hopefully one of these suggested methods will make it easy for you to enjoy the listening sessions:
1. Click on the link which leads to the MP3 file of an episode (generally, “Listening Session 001, 002, etc…" in each podcast post) and the file should begin streaming.
2. Right click (in Internet Explorer) on the link to the MP3 file and select “Save Target As…” This will allow you to download the podcast episode directly to your computer. From there you can load it into your player of choice. Other browsers should also provide ways to save the podcast MP3 files to your computer.
3. Subscribing in iTunes (note: new feed address info below):
While the show still remains frustratingly out of the iTunes Podcast Directory, you can still subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes:
On your iTunes menu bar click on Advanced, then "Subscribe To Podcast."
In the URL field, paste this blog feed address:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DeadListeningPodcastSeries
This will trigger the subscription and download of the entire series and keep you updated as new episodes appear.
Please note that this feed address has changed and is specific to the podcast series alone. It is not another blog to follow. While the podcasts will continue to be posted here on the guide, the GDLG feed itself is so large that older podcast episodes are slowly falling off the back end, making new subscribers to the podcast miss out on the earliest episodes.
If you have successfully used the GDLG blog feed to pull all the episodes into iTunes already (with the GDLG logo and full file descriptions), my guess is that it will continue to work just fine. If you do decide to switch to the new podcast feed, it will come into iTunes as a new show, triggering the download of all past episodes. A minor annoyance to consider deleting your historical episodes to make room for the same ones under a slightly different name, but it might make sense as one day we may formally divide the two feeds and post podcasts in the podcast feed only.
Again, this post will likely be edited in the future as things may change regarding the GDLG podcast and the iTunes Podcast Directory. Despite numerous failed attempts to work through iTunes Support, a resolution has not been found. Any iTunes Podcast wizards out there? I’d love some help. Drop me a line.
All podcast can be found via the linked menu on the left side of the site, and also under the label "podcasts."
There are a few different ways to listen to the podcasts. Hopefully one of these suggested methods will make it easy for you to enjoy the listening sessions:
1. Click on the link which leads to the MP3 file of an episode (generally, “Listening Session 001, 002, etc…" in each podcast post) and the file should begin streaming.
2. Right click (in Internet Explorer) on the link to the MP3 file and select “Save Target As…” This will allow you to download the podcast episode directly to your computer. From there you can load it into your player of choice. Other browsers should also provide ways to save the podcast MP3 files to your computer.
3. Subscribing in iTunes (note: new feed address info below):
While the show still remains frustratingly out of the iTunes Podcast Directory, you can still subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes:
On your iTunes menu bar click on Advanced, then "Subscribe To Podcast."
In the URL field, paste this blog feed address:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DeadListeningPodcastSeries
This will trigger the subscription and download of the entire series and keep you updated as new episodes appear.
Please note that this feed address has changed and is specific to the podcast series alone. It is not another blog to follow. While the podcasts will continue to be posted here on the guide, the GDLG feed itself is so large that older podcast episodes are slowly falling off the back end, making new subscribers to the podcast miss out on the earliest episodes.
If you have successfully used the GDLG blog feed to pull all the episodes into iTunes already (with the GDLG logo and full file descriptions), my guess is that it will continue to work just fine. If you do decide to switch to the new podcast feed, it will come into iTunes as a new show, triggering the download of all past episodes. A minor annoyance to consider deleting your historical episodes to make room for the same ones under a slightly different name, but it might make sense as one day we may formally divide the two feeds and post podcasts in the podcast feed only.
Again, this post will likely be edited in the future as things may change regarding the GDLG podcast and the iTunes Podcast Directory. Despite numerous failed attempts to work through iTunes Support, a resolution has not been found. Any iTunes Podcast wizards out there? I’d love some help. Drop me a line.
wow...thanks for the help. very much enjoying your writing and insight.
ReplyDeleteI followed the instructions for iTunes subscription but to my dismay it seems to have only downloaded one episode. Perhaps I need to start from scratch. I love that technology has given us all the gift of boundless seas of music... but tapes were so much easier to play! Many Thanks for this wonderful site.. peace, love and music to all. M
ReplyDeleteMaggie-O, Well the entire feed looks to be intact so there's no external reason for all of the episodes to not have come in. You might fiddle with the settings in iTunes. You might see a "Get All" button to the right of the name of the podcast you could click. Or, try clicking refresh at the bottom right. Or, select the title of the podcast (the line above the episode you did get) and then click on settings down in the lower left of iTunes. There you can tweak a few things too. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteTweaking mission accomplished; got'em all. Thanks again.
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