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How To Download Pod Casts To your mp3 player
Podcasts are very popular now for music and audio on just about any topic
you can think of. Type podcast download into Google and you will get
27,900,000 as the number available. The problem is, like a lot of this new
technology being invented; they usually have very poor instructions on how to use it.
I want to take you through a step-by-step method that we use at our house.
You will need a media aggregator, which automatically downloads podcasts,
and media files to your computer or portable device. We use a free one called “Juice” the cross-platform podcast receiver. Here is where you can download it-----
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php
This is what it looks like--
What do we have to do to use it?
First we will go somewhere on the Internet and find a podcast. Go to
EWTN.com and you will see the image below. [EWTN is used as a sample because they
have a very clean and easy to use website.]
On the left side of the page you will find the following.
Click on this and the following will open. 
There two things you can do on this page. Lets say you are only interested
in the podcast on the left by Father Benedict. You would right click on the
red colored MP3 and left click on “save target as” a window will ask you
where you want to download it. Save all podcasts downloads to the folder
under “My Documents” called “My Received Podcasts.” Later I will show
you how to copy this file out of My Received Podcasts folder to your
portable device.
The second thing you can do is to subscribe to the podcasts on this site.
This will let you easily update any podcasts as they become available.
Up near the top right after the word PODCASTING on the second line down is
a little XML in red box. Left click on this and this window will appear.
Highlight the http://www.ewtn/ree/RSS_daily_av.xml and copy it.
Now look at the Juice window again.
If you click on the little green circle with the plus sign in this window will open.
Just paste or type the http://www.ewtn/ree/RSS_daily_av.xml into the little box to the
right of URL and click on save.
In the picture directly below this of Juice opened up you will see the tab
Subscriptions, click on that. Notice under the name column there are two
subscriptions Internet Week Blog and the one we just subscribed to EWTN.
Also notice further down on the window are columns labeled Episode, State,
MB (size in MB), and Location. There are many episodes but I was only interested
in one of them so I unchecked the ones I did not want to download. When you uncheck
the episode the state goes to skipped.I wanted to download the episode called
“Miss Connecticut- 1/1/2006.”
To download Miss Connecticut I checked it and went up to the blue circle
with the download symbol in the center. It is the sixth one over from the left.
Then I clicked on the Download tab at the top a this is the window that opens up.
While it is downloading you will see numbers indication how much is downloaded
and how fast it is. When it is done the State will say Downloaded
Remember it downloaded to what folder? My Documents/My Received Podcasts
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The last thing we have to do is copy Miss Connecticut to your portable device.
First, go to My Computer and open it. The window will open as shown below.
This is a list of hard drives on your computer. Note: yours will look different
than this one. My portable device is listed as the bottom one called
SanDisk Sansa m230. Click on this one and the window below will show up
Notice the window on the left shows the folders inside of the portable device.
The right window shows folders under the Media folder.
Folders inside of portable device After clicking on Media
 
What we want to do now is copy the file we downloaded be it music a book
or something else it is just a file. So lets look at the window below showing
the My Received Podcasts folder, which is located under My Documents.
My Received Podcasts Folder Media Folder In Portable Device
We want to copy the EWTN Audio Library into the Media folder in the
portable device. Here is how we do it
Left click on the EWTN Audio Library to highlight it. Lift your finger off of
the EWTN Audio Library. Now Hold the right click key down while
dragging it to the Media folder. When you take your finger off you will
see the little window which says, “Copy Here/Cancel,” Left click Copy and
it will copy. This may take a few minutes depending on the file size, so
please be patient. When it is finished you will see the EWTN Audio Library
In the Media folder as shown below.
You are finished.
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