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I'm not sure I understand your Q, but if you are looking for basically a subscribe link that will work for your parents on Android, just find the RSS feed for t

I'm not sure I understand your Q, but if you are looking for basically a subscribe link that will work for your parents on Android, just find the RSS feed for that podcast (should be easy enough), and then plug it into this service: http://subscribeonandroid.com http://subscribeonandroid.com It will create a link that will subscribe them on their chosen podcast app on Android. If they haven't chosen an app yet, it will provide them a list of options. Hope that helps.

giobox 9y ago
This obviously works, you can even use iTunes as the source of the RSS feeds, there's not really anything proprietary to how Apple did podcasts, its just a database of the RSS feeds - just right click the podcast search result in iTunes and click "Copy Podcast URL". However, copying RSS feed links is a pretty terrible way to discover content. Most normal people want a search or recommendation engine of some kind (you liked x, you will probably love y), which is why virtually every podcast app offers access to searching some kind of RSS feed database of podcasts within the app. If you were to go with your approach, I'd personally still consider using iTunes as the search engine for the RSS urls, most podcast app makers seem to agree Apple's database is pretty much the most complete out there, probably largely by dint of being the first to really focus on building a database of these feeds. As to format: virtually every podcast feed in existence is constant bitrate MP3 (confirmed by several different podcast directory maintainers), so this isn't really a concern. There are various technical reasons why historically podcasts have had to avoid VBR/other audio formats. CBR MP3 is guaranteed to playback without issue on almost anything, including your car stereo from 10 years ago.
- mindB 9y ago
  I just really hate that there doesn't appear to be any way of getting RSS links to podcasts from Apple's database using just a browser. I have no other reason to have itunes installed and won't be installing it just for this.
  - scarface74 9y ago
    Apple has an API https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api/ https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/i...
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  - shrikant 9y ago
    You can use this service to extract the RSS link from iTunes podcasts. http://itunes.so-nik.com/ http://itunes.so-nik.com/
    - hopesthoughts 9y ago
      I use this all the time! A lot of podcasts hide their RSS feeds for some reason. Either that or they're using SoundCloud, and they really don't make feeds easy to find over there.

giobox 9y ago

This obviously works, you can even use iTunes as the source of the RSS feeds, there's not really anything proprietary to how Apple did podcasts, its just a database of the RSS feeds - just right click the podcast search result in iTunes and click "Copy Podcast URL". However, copying RSS feed links is a pretty terrible way to discover content. Most normal people want a search or recommendation engine of some kind (you liked x, you will probably love y), which is why virtually every podcast app offers access to searching some kind of RSS feed database of podcasts within the app. If you were to go with your approach, I'd personally still consider using iTunes as the search engine for the RSS urls, most podcast app makers seem to agree Apple's database is pretty much the most complete out there, probably largely by dint of being the first to really focus on building a database of these feeds. As to format: virtually every podcast feed in existence is constant bitrate MP3 (confirmed by several different podcast directory maintainers), so this isn't really a concern. There are various technical reasons why historically podcasts have had to avoid VBR/other audio formats. CBR MP3 is guaranteed to playback without issue on almost anything, including your car stereo from 10 years ago.

mindB 9y ago
I just really hate that there doesn't appear to be any way of getting RSS links to podcasts from Apple's database using just a browser. I have no other reason to have itunes installed and won't be installing it just for this.
- scarface74 9y ago
  Apple has an API https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api/ https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/i...
- deleted 9y ago
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- shrikant 9y ago
  You can use this service to extract the RSS link from iTunes podcasts. http://itunes.so-nik.com/ http://itunes.so-nik.com/
  - hopesthoughts 9y ago
    I use this all the time! A lot of podcasts hide their RSS feeds for some reason. Either that or they're using SoundCloud, and they really don't make feeds easy to find over there.