Tech Talk at ShieldsGroup

I want to subscribe to a podcast, but I can’t find it when I search for it by name with my Android app.

And I can’t find the RSS link.

Sound familiar?

How do you subscribe to an iTunes podcast with PocketCasts?

How do you subscribe to an iTunes podcast with Google Play Music?

You need the RSS link.

But many podcast sites, without intending to do so, hide the RSS link for an iTunes podcast.

Fortunately, there’s a solution.

It’s at this web site:
http://getrssfeed.com/

Here’s how to use it:

1. Go to the iTunes site or SoundCloud site for your podcast and copy the url from your browser.(at the top of the screen).
2. Paste that url into the field at getrssfeed.com and the service will retrieve the public RSS feed of the podcast.
3. Paste that information into the search field of PocketCasts or whatever podcast catcher you use on your Android.

OK — maybe it’s not hidden, but when I was trying to add http://danledford.blogspot.com to my personalized Google page by selecting, “Add by URL”, the system said, “Page not found.”

This made no sense to me since I was able to load Dan’s other page: http://gluttonyisasin.blogspot.com. I looked all over both pages and saw no information about where the rss link might be. I thought, “How do I find the RSS feed on a blogspot page?”

So I guessed. It’s here: http://danledford.blogspot.com/rss.xml. It’s probably the same place for all blogspot pages. Why they don’t place an RSS link on the page is a mystery only Google knows.