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What is Podcasting?
Podcasting is a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the Internet.

Detailed explainations of Podcasting and podcasting related terminology can be found on Wikipedia.

What is an RSS Feed?
RSS files provide a method for syndicating all types of content, including podcasts.

In podcasting RSS files are used to summarise the contents of audio programs.

RSS is a family of XML file formats which means RSS files provide a computer readable description of the human readable webpage.

This allows people to subscribe to feeds with many popular applications.

What is a Podcatcher?
A Podcatcher is the common name for an application designed to download and organise podcasts. They can notify you when new content is available by reading RSS feeds.

There are a number of Podcatchers available to download and we have listed some of the more popular choices below: