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Listening to Internet
Radio & Podcasts
Well, this is pretty self explanatory. Work at Home Moms Talk Radio and
most other programs offer a simple way to listen to each new show right
on the website. This is called ‘streaming the audio’. When you listen
this way, no files are being downloaded onto your computer at all – you
just listen and when you’re finished you have nothing to delete or clean
off of your computer.
In
my case, you can visit the main page and click on ‘Listen Now’ and the
website will launch a small player window. Now you simply click the
play button and the audio starts to play.
The
Manual Download Option
A
podcast is simply an mp3 file that has been set up to be delivered via
an RSS subscription. I always offer the mp3 file as a manual download
for those who don’t want to mess around with the RSS feed. Just click
on the ‘Listen Now’ button on my site and right click on the ‘Mp3 File’
link to save it to your computer.
After it downloads, you can do whatever you like with it. Burn it to a
CD, send it to your Mp3 player or listen right on your computer without
being connected to the internet. After you’ve listened you can delete
it.
The
iTunes Option
iTunes is the Media Player offered by Apple.com. iTunes is an easy
option and used by more podcast listeners than anything else.
You don’t have to have a Mac computer in order to use iTunes as they do
offer iTunes for the PC. And you don’t have to own an iPod in order to
make use of iTunes.
To
download iTunes visit:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Once you have iTunes on your computer you can just
click on this button to subscribe to our show.
If
the button doesn't work, open iTunes and...
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On the upper left, Click on ‘Podcasts’
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Look down at the bottom right and click the
‘Podcast Directory’ link.
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Look on the right side ‘Quick Links’ and choose
‘Power Search’
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Search for ‘Work at Home Moms’ to find my show.
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Click to Subscribe!
You can search for other great topics that interest you or you can
simply browse the directory by category.
Find
other great Mom related podcasts:
http://www.momsradionetwork.com
iTunes acts as your little Podcasting Assistant. Once you have
subscribed to some shows, you can tell it how often you want it to check
for new episodes and whether you want it to download the episodes
automatically or manually. (Click on Podcasts and then Edit,
Preferences.) If you choose manually, it will only tell you that a
new show is available – then it will download it when you click to ‘get
it’.
I personally like
to open my iTunes before I go to bed and tell it to automatically
download any new episodes that it detects on my list. This way it
is gobbling up my internet connection speed while I sleep and I have
fresh audio to listen to in the morning.
You can listen to episodes right in iTunes – either through your
speakers or through a headset.
You can easily send the audio files over to your iPod.
You can burn audio files to a CD using iTunes. Information about this
can be found by clicking on the Help link in iTunes.
You can also click and drag your podcast files out of iTunes to transfer
them to non-Apple portable mp3 player.
The
Enterprising Mom Option
Enterprising Mom is a special RSS Receiver that has been personalized
with Work at Home Moms Talk Radio and several other great RSS resources
for moms in business.
Download it here:
http://www.enterprisingmom.com/
Enterprising Mom will automatically detect and download the current WAHM
Talk Radio mp3 file for you. It places it in a special folder where
you’ll know to find it. You can then play it in any media player on
your computer, move it to an mp3 player or burn it to a CD.
If you already have a
different Podcast Receiver
installed you can add
our feed by adding this address to your receiver:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/wtrpodcast
 
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