So What Now, How Do I Subscribe?

So it's all very well describing the magazine, but how do I subscribe to it? The easiest way is to look for the subscribe link on the relevant podcast. This most popular graphic to look for is this one . When you click on it, you may very well end up with a text full of what looks like techy gobbledygook. This is in fact the subscription information your aggregator software needs. There are many different podcast listening solutions and some enable you to have one click subscription, i.e. you just click on the correct link and your podcast aggregator will automatically add the link to your subscribe list. This is all very well, but what happens when you want to remove it? For this reason I prefer the manual method as that way I know I can subscribe to any podcast, no matter what links it offers.

I'll assume you are using Juice as your podcast aggregator as this is the one I use. Although there are lots of different software solutions, they all essentially handle things the same way, so once you know one, you can pretty much find your way around any one.

You'll notice on the top right of the page is the familiar icon. Right click on this and select either "Copy Link Location" if using Firefox, or "Copy Shortcut" if using Internet Explorer, from the menu that appears. This makes a copy of the information we need for our aggregator software. We now need to open our podcast aggregator, which for this example is Juice.

Once Juice is run you will be presented with the opening screen. Click on the Subscriptions tab and then click on the "Add New Feed" button. You will see a screen like this.



Our final step is to paste the feed information into the blank box. We can do this by pressing the [CRTL] key and while holding this key down press the [V] key. Our feed information will now appear in the text box and should read something like this http://feeds.feedburner.com/podcastusermag. Now we just click on the [Save] button and we are now subscribed. Now whenever you click on the "Check for New Podcasts" menu option or button, The Podcast User Magazine will be checked to see if any new magazines are available.