about podcasting

What is Podcasting

Podcasting automatically delivers MP3 audio recordings of classroom lectures to computers and portable MP3 players. These recordings are primarily used by students to review key concepts and to study before exams.

How to Listen to Podcasts

There are three ways to receive the lecture recordings:

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    Podcasting : Podcasting makes audio recordings, typically MP3s, available for automatic download by subscribing to an automatic RSS feed through free “podcatcher” software. Subscribing to a course podcast will automatically download the the latest lecture MP3s to your computer or portable MP3 player as the lectures become available online.
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    Download : you can browse the online lecture archives to download specific MP3 lectures. These MP3s can be played on a computer or loaded onto a portable MP3 player for on-the-go listening.
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    Streaming : If you don’t want to store the MP3s on your computer you can listen on-demand as an audio stream (free RealPlayer required).

How to Subscribe


When you click the «RSS | Podcast» button you will be taken to an XML page. Copy the URL from your browser’s Location field and paste into your preferred podcast software. Free podcast software for Mac OSX and Windows include:


  • If you have iTunes installed you can subscribe with a single click of the iTunes button.
    Download iTunes

  • Juice is a free, open-source, cross-platform media aggregation application for capturing and listening to podcasts.
    Download Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver

  • FeedBurner provides a user-friendly way to view and listen to podcast archives.
  • Also see Wikipedia’s List of Podcatchers

Note: If you don’t see a Subscribe link on the lecture archive page it is because this course is webcast streaming only.

Using RSS

Live Bookmark Look for this icon in your browser, and click on it to subscribe. Feeds will appear in your Bookmarks list. webcast.berkeley offers RSS on courses and event category pages.

Terms of Use

You may download, copy and/or transfer to a portable listening device the UC Berkeley podcasts for your personal, non-commercial use only.