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Podcasting
Many DW-TV and DW-RADIO programs are also available as podcasts.
"Podcasting" comes from mixing "broadcasting" with Apple's now-famous "iPod" MP3 player and amounts to radio you can download and listen to whenever you want. With podcasting, you can download Deutsche Welle radio programs to your computer to listen on your MP3 player -- no, it doesn't have to be an iPod -- wherever and whenever you want, freeing you from Deutsche Welle's programming schedule.
In order to download and listen to a podcast you just need a computer with an Internet connection and software that plays MP3 files, which usually comes pre-installed. To make the process easier, you can download free podcasting clients that will, in turn, download your favorite podcasts from the Internet and transfer them to your MP3 player. iPodder is the original podcasting client, but there are plenty available, including Apple's iTunes.
Every Deutsche Welle podcast is enabled through an RSS feed. These feeds were first used in blogs but have also become an important part of news Web sites. Podcast feeds contain the so-called "tags" or "subscriptions" that link to the audio files. You just need to copy the RSS tag into your podcasting client and let it do the work.
