Podcasts­

You can also use Firefox to help manage your Podcasts. Firefox won't keep track of the Podcasts themselves but you can ask Firefox to pass the subscription information to your favorite Podcasting software. So, lets assume that you found a Podcast online. There is any number of ways the Podcaster might wish to display the link to the Podcast. It might be there is an image on the page that you click on or just a normal text link. Whichever way it is, there is no general way of doing it. So lets assume you are offered a link to the Podcast, when you click on it you will see something like this open in Firefox:

This is a Podcast, not a news feed, so we don't want Firefox to manage the Podcast. We want to pass the subscription information to the Podcast software. In this example I will pass the subscription RSS file to a software called 'Rhythmbox' (A MP3 player and Podcast manager for Linux). To do this I just change the selection in the drop down box which currently reads 'Live Bookmarks':

In this example the Rhythmbox software would then be displayed in the drop down box like so:

I would then press 'Subscribe' and the subscription information will hopefully be passed to Rhythmbox and it will start downloading my new Podcast(s).

In the above example I can choose the rhythmbox software easily for this because I have previously directed Firefox to use the software. However, your software probably does not show in this menu. In this case you will need to choose the option 'Choose Application', however nothing will happen in either situation until you press the Subscribe button. For example if you select 'Choose Application' you will see this:

If you then press 'Subscribe' you will get a filebrowser that you can use to browse the files and folders on your computer in search of your favorite Podcast software, like so:

In the above case you would then find your Podcast software, click on its name, and press 'Open'. Then you would press 'Subscribe' and the subscription information should be passed your Podcast software.