Podcast Secret Tips – Podcast Clients Are Your Friends

Are you a podcaster? Do you love the excitement of recording your own voice, then broadcasting to the world via the Internet? Do you download podcasts from the Internet and later listen to them either on your personal recording device or computer? If so, what you are about to read is important information to you.

When a person downloads a podcast from the Internet, they use what is called a ‘podcast client.’ A podcast client is simply a piece of software used to download a podcast. You may have heard the term
‘media aggregators’ in the past? Well, they are one in the same. Media aggregators are designed to grab hold of a podcast via its online form or feed and then download the recording.

A quick look at Wikipedia will deliver a list of aggregators to include:

o Adobe Media Player

o Akregator

o Amarok

o Canola

o Flock

o iTunes

o Juice

o Mediafly SyncClient

o MediaMonkey

o Miro

o Rhythmbox (GNOME)

o Songbird

o Winamp

o Zune

Do the same for Client Software and the list will be five times longer.The best thing about these programs are that they are mostly free. However, like anything, they all have different bells and
whistles. So, research several to locate one that meets your needs.

You may have heard of RSS feeds? Well, the aggregators and client software programs download RSS feeds the user instructs them to monitor. The file then instructs the server holding the RSS feeds containing podcasts to download them.

Much like the trusted RSS feeds a person may download from their favorite blogs or websites, podcast client software enables a person to read over the information pertaining to any topic they may be
interested in without even launching a web browser.

By: David Hale

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