How to subscribe to specific podcasts without typing in their URLs

Published by Steve Litchfield at 14:26 UTC, February 7th 2009

I often want to subscribe to a podcast that's not in the official Podcasting directory. At the moment, I have to bring up the RSS feed's address on the screen, write it out by hand on a piece of paper and then type it all in again into the Podcasting application. However, there's a quicker way, involving copy and paste. In this tutorial, I show how to subscribe to podcasts in Nokia's Podcasting system without typing a single podcast URL.

"What would have been ideal, of course, would be for Nokia to have integrated their Web and Podcasting applications, but until they do this it's down to you and I and the good old S60 clipboard. Here's what to do. I'm demonstrating on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, but the same technique works in identical manner on older S60 3rd Edition smartphones."

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Platforms: S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th Edition

Categories: Miscellaneous

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Unregistered
Nice tip BUT can you do a tutorial on how to find the podcast section on your site?
Where the hell is it?
UKJeeper
Nice. Thanks. Is there a good site somewhere that list's Podcasts by URL's?
UKJeeper
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Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
Nice tip BUT can you do a tutorial on how to find the podcast section on your site?
Where the hell is it?

If you mean his video podcast, here's the walkthrough on how to find it:






1) Click here.
Unregistered
Hi... abit off topic. but whats the 5800 theme you are using for the screenshots? thanks.
Tzer2
Quote:
Nice. Thanks. Is there a good site somewhere that list's Podcasts by URL's?
Most podcast websites do also include their URL somewhere on the page, usually an address that ends in .xml



Quote:
Nice tip BUT can you do a tutorial on how to find the podcast section on your site?
Where the hell is it?
You can find it in the "Features" menu under "video and audio". Here it is:

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/media/podcast.php

Also, if you're using an S60 phone and have the Podcasting app on it, you can find all of AAS's podcasts by searching for the keyword "Symbian" and then subscribing to the AAS podcast.
Unregistered
No I meant the Podcast page on this site. Where is it buried and why?
Tzer2
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No I meant the Podcast page on this site. Where is it buried and why?
I've just given the link in my previous post, and described where to find it.
Unregistered
It does not work on the N95-3
Unregistered
whats themes are the screenshots using? and where can I download it.

Thanks
rvirga
While on the subject of podcasts, I've noticed that some audio podcasts have a picture (cover art), while some other don't. For example, the AAS and all the NYTimes podcasts have one, while the Onion Radio News doesn't. Does anybody know if it's possible to manually assign one, or it's just something only the content provider can set?
cedesguin
Mutatis mutandis, I have been using this method for almost two years with my Communicator.
slitchfield
The theme on my 5800 at the moment is Darkstar by PiZero 8-)

The theme going on in about 5 mins is Taieb's "Bright"

Fickle? Me?
Unregistered
Thanks steve, you're a star.
Norman J
Good job steve.
Over on my blog I've posted about your post and wrote another way to do this. Just use the barcode reader ;) Jump over to symbianworl.org to read it
mlang
Yup, it is very frustrating that the browser/podcast apps aren't integrated.

Just a note to say that the http:\\ is very important in the URL, because the podcast app doesn't just assume it.

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