Podcasts

To the right in the sidebar, you'll notice a list of podcasts.

The links will take you to the sites of these various Italian programs. It might take some hunting to find the necessary XML code that you can use to receive the podcasts via RSS. If you have any questions on how to do this, drop me an email. I recommend that you use Itunes to manage your podcasts because it will automatically download and delete items as you listen to them as well as make them easy to send to your Ipod, if you have one.

If you use a non-Ipod mp3 player, then there are other tools out there. Watch for future posts. With Itunes, I manage my podcasts with "Smartlists" that automatically add new episodes as they are downloaded. Podcasts do not advance when you listen to them. So if you start with one episode, it will play and then stop, and you will have to advance it to the next episode. However, with a smart list, it is like listening to a CD. All the tracks will play until you tell it to stop. Each method has its pluses and minuses depending on how you listen. I listen while I drive, so I don't like to fiddle with the Ipod behind the wheel. :)

You can also listen to many of the programs past transmissions right from the sites so if you want to avoid the whole podcast thing, you can just pick and choose and listen at your leisure.

If there's a podcast that we've missed here, please feel free to leave a comment about it so that we can add it to the list.

Another great newsreader is Wizz. With Wizz, you can listen to podcasts right from the Wizz add-on which works with Firefox - you don't have to worry about a huge memory intensive program like Itunes running in the background.