Podcasting
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What is a podcast/RSS feed?
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It’s a new way that allows us at the Red Room Company to automatically send you some of our radio programming to your portable device. A Podcast can also be referred to as an RSS feed, Atom Feed, Vodcast as well as a number of other names. You can subscribe to the podcast by downloading a small piece of software known as an aggregator, sometimes called a podcatcher or podcast receiver, that will manages all of your podcast subscriptions.

When you’re connected to the internet, the software searches for the latest updated edition of our program on the website, and will download it to a folder on your computer, ready for you to play it at your leisure. This means that you don’t have to manually search for new programs to download on this website. It happens automatically once you’ve subscribed!

At present the picture show audio materials are all available for immediate download.

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How do I subscribe to a podcast?
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First you need to download a small program that allows you to subscribe to Podcasts on the net
Some examples of software that allows you to subscribe to podcast feeds are:
- Itunes (http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/) Windows/Mac
- NetNewsWire (http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire) Mac
- FeedReader (http://www.feedreader.com/) Windows
- Podifier (http://www.podifier.com/) Windows
- RSSReader (http://www.rssreader.com/) Windows
- RSS2Email (http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss2email/) Linux/Unix
- Straw (http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw/) Linux/Unix

These programs allow you to schedule regular updates to your selected downloads with an iPod or other MP3 player. The range includes programs which allow you to listen to podcasts on mobile phones and Pocket PCs, as well as computers running Windows, Mac or Linux operating systems.

Once you have set up the podcasting software, copy & paste the subscription URL link listed below or look for the orange RSS icon on our podcasting page and copy and paste the link into your podcasting software of choice.

http://www.redroomcompany.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2

This will add the selected program to your podcasting subscriptions.

If you want to receive these programs regularly, make sure the scheduling function on your podcasting software is set to search for new podcasts automatically. You may need to consult the Help section of your software to find out how to do this.

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Where do I get podcasting software?
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Here is a short list of useful podcasting applications.

- Itunes (http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/) Windows/Mac
- NetNewsWire (http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire) Mac
- FeedReader (http://www.feedreader.com/) Windows
- Podifier (http://www.podifier.com/) Windows
- RSSReader (http://www.rssreader.com/) Windows
- RSS2Email (http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss2email/) Linux/Unix
- Straw (http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw/) Linux/Unix

Much more can be found by searching the net using Google.

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Where can I get more information?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_%28file_format%29

* Wikipedia: all about podcasting
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Still not working?
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Try and try again:

1) Open up Itunes.
2) Open the “Advanced” menu and click on “Subscribe to Podcast”
3) Enter the following URL

http://www.redroomcompany.org/wordpress/?feed=rss2

4) Hit enter/return.
5) Play around and have fun with your Redroom Podcast subscription

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Video podcasting
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Video podcasting (vod/vidcasting) is a way to distribute video files over the internet, using either an RSS or Atom feed, for playback on your mobile device or computer.

You can subscribe to our future video podcasting and automatically receive each episode as it becomes available. Simply copy and paste the relevant link into your video podcasting software using a ‘subscribe’ option or where it says to “add feed manually”.

Subscribing to these video podcasts may not be suitable for people on internet plans with limited data usage, as episodes can be as large as 30Mb or more.

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Handy hints
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Our material is available in three formats: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3), Quicktime (MOV) and Windows Media Video 9 (WMV).

The Windows Media Video might be appropriate for Windows users with podcast software such as FeedReader installed. Some portable media players and PDAs also support the WMV format.

If you use iTunes, and the video iPod try the Quicktime (MOV) version.

While these files can also be viewed on your computer with the right software, they have been optimized for playback on portable devices

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