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What is podcasting?

Podcasting lets you automatically receive the latest episode of your chosen programme as soon as it's available.

You can "subscribe" to receive a podcast, rather like you might subscribe to a magazine and get it delivered each week.

If you'd rather not subscribe, you can download episodes of a podcast series individually.

In order to subscribe for a podcast, you need an internet connection and a piece of podcast software which is usually available free of charge. Once you have installed this software, it will check for new episodes of your chosen podcast series and automatically download new episodes for you.

You can then listen to podcast episodes on your computer, or transfer them to a portable device, such as an mp3 player.

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How do I subscribe to a podcast?

You will need an internet connection; and a piece of podcast software or an RSS feed reader. http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Software.html

How you subscribe will vary depending on which software you have chosen. Three pieces of software popular with most users are iTunes, Juice and Doppler.

You can also subscribe using a web-based “feed reader” such as My Yahoo or Google Reader. These work in a similar way to the podcast software but are online rather than application-based and you need to have an account - they're usually free and easy to set-up but you will need an email address.

To subscribe the first thing you need to do is add the "feed" of the podcast to your software (or online reader). The feed is where the software will go to each time it wants to check for a new episode.

You will need to copy this feed address and paste it into your podcast software. How you do this will depend on your software, but you should look out for buttons or links that say "Add" or "Subscribe".

Alternatively, some software and readers provide one-click subscription. At the moment, we provide quick links for iTunes, Zune, ZenCast, My Yahoo and Google Reader - just click the relevant one-click subscription button.

The software will do the rest.

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What is an mp3?

MP3 is a popular digital music format for sound files, that are small in size but still reasonably high quality.

This makes it a very suitable format for downloading from the web – audio files can be reduced to around a tenth of their normal size without significant loss of quality. This is achieved by stripping out a lot of the recorded information that our ears aren't able to hear, like the sounds that are outside our hearing range.

Anyone with a computer connected to the internet can download and listen to MP3 files. You will need a media player on your computer (many PCs come with Windows Media Player, for example), and you'll also need speakers or headphones.

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