How to send a link for a specific podcast file?

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How to send a link for a specific podcast file?

So I'm in my Podcasts directory in iTunes 5.0 and I've got a bunch of downloaded podcasts. Just listened to a particular one that I really like and I'd like to send a link for that podcast to a friend. How to get the link? I do a Get Info on the file and there's no URL anywhere.

Even if I manually add a podcast by choosing "Subscribe to podcast" from the Advanced menu, then entering the podcast URL, if I thereafter try to retrieve that URL from somewhere in the downloaded podcast, it's nowhere to be found. Surely I'm missing something obvious. Now there are a very few podcasts that seem to put that info in their "Show Description" (aka the "Podcast Information" window) but they're the exception.

Before you suggest control-clicking in the iTunes Music Store and choosing "Copy iTunes Music Store URL," note that that doesn't get close to the mark at all, and besides, I need to do this for podcasts that aren't on the iTunes Music Store. Thanks!

Posted on Sep 14, 2005 3:22 PM

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Answer 1

Wyodor

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Sep 15, 2005 1:19 AM in response to Roquentin

Download the RSS feed you pasted in "Subscribe to podcast", open it and look for the URL of the file you want.

You can also display the RSS content by pasting the RSS feed URL in the address field of your browser.

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Roquentin Author

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Sep 15, 2005 9:21 AM in response to Wyodor

Thanks, but I don't think you read my question carefully enough.

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Answer 3

Sep 15, 2005 10:03 AM in response to Roquentin

Go to the website that's hosting the podcasts. From there, you should find links to where the mp3 files of the podcasts that you want to send to friends.

It would probably be more helpful if you let us know what podcast you're referring to.

For example, my podcast is listed on iTunes at: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=74837876

From there, you can click on the Website button under podcast description. That will take you to my blog at: http://marioajero.blogspot.com

So if there was a certain episode of my podcast that you wanted to send, then find the episode on the blog with the hyperlink to the mp3 file that's hosted on archive.org. Do your CTRL-click on the mp3 link and you should be able to send it to whoever.

Hope that helps.

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Wyodor

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Sep 15, 2005 10:25 AM in response to Roquentin

I see. I thought you wanted to know the location on the web of an item in the podcast. But you want to know the RSS URL itself.

Select the podcast, not the item.

Click on the i at the right of the podcast description.

You'll see the URL of the RSS feed.

Unfortunately you cannot select and copy it. You have to type it.

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Answer 5

Roquentin Author

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Sep 15, 2005 1:34 PM in response to Wyodor

I should probably give an actual example to make myself clear. When you refer to clicking the "i," note that doing that is what I was talking about when I wrote: "there are a very few podcasts that seem to put that info in their 'Show Description' (aka the 'Podcast Information' window) but they're the exception." In other words, clicking the "i" opens the Podcast Information window. Same window opens if you choose "Show Description" from the contextual menu that opens when you control-click on the feed name.

But the URL that appears in the Podcast Information window (besides not being selectable for copying and also being in a window that disappears if you switch apps), is just the link to the RSS page that lists ALL the episodes. It is not a link to a specific episode. What I want is the ability FROM A DOWNLOADED PODCAST EPISODE to extract the link for that specific episode. I guess this would be equivalent to clicking the "Get" button next to a dimmed episode that has not yet been downloaded, though I don't really care that clicking that link (if I could find it) wouldn't automatically download the episode into iTunes for the person to whom I would send the link.

So, for example, the link that I can extract from the KCRW On the Beat podcast is this:

feed://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/podcastRSS?id =73331691

But what I want is to get the link (from within iTunes, not by visiting the web page) of the "Our Pop Stars Lead Us" episode, which is here:

http://66.186.18.80/podcast/mp3/ob/ob050907Afterthe_DelugeOur.mp3

See what I mean?

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