How to download old podcasts no longer on itunes conveniently?
- Open iTunes and display your podcasts. Near the top of the page you have the options to view All Unplayed, My Podcasts, My Stations, or List. Select My Podcasts. Choose the podcast you want to download. In the pane to the right, you have the options Unplayed, Feed, or Saved. This will show all available podcasts for download.
- To download all the past episodes of a given podcast, right-click on the podcast’s icon or name in the middle column and select ‘Download All.’ In prior versions of iTunes, this option was available on the ‘List’ tab.
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In the meantime point your podcast app at the rss feed and download the oldest sooner rather than later. Most apps will preserve downloads but if they age out of the feed before you download them you're back to having to use the webpage.
I will frequently discover a podcast, and go all the way back to the beginning and listen through the whole series. I started doing that with the freakonomics podcast recently, but it seems the first 85 episodes (or at least it was the first 85 when I started, it might be more than that now) are no longer available on itunes for some reason.
Getting Your Podcast On Itunes
They have the podcasts available on their website, but there doesn't seem to be a convenient way to batch-download them all.
Is there some special way to access those old podcasts on itunes, or some other service where I can easily batch-download them?
Podcast Software
Many podcast feeds provide new material on a regular schedule. iTunes can check these feeds automatically and update your library with new podcast episodes. You can, for example, schedule iTunes to check for new podcast episodes — such as news, weather, traffic reports, and morning talk shows — before you wake up and automatically update your iPod.
To check for updates manually, select Podcasts in the Library section of the source list, and then click the round-circle refresh button in the lower-left corner of the view under the Unplayed or Podcasts tab, or the Refresh button in the lower-right corner of the view under the List tab.
All subscribed podcast feeds are updated immediately when you refresh, and iTunes downloads the most recent (or all) episodes, depending on how you set your podcasts preferences to schedule podcast updates.
To change your podcast settings so that iTunes can check for new podcasts automatically, click the List tab, and then click the Settings button at the bottom of the List tab view to display the Podcast Settings dialog. You can change the settings for each podcast separately by choosing the podcast in the Settings For pop-up menu. The settings are as follows:
Check for New Episodes: Choose to check for podcasts every hour, day, week, or manually — whenever you want.
Settings For: Choose which podcast in your iTunes library you are scheduling updates for or choose Podcast Defaults to apply these settings to all podcasts in your library.
When New Episodes Are Available: You can download the most recent one (useful for news podcasts), download all episodes (useful for podcasts you might want to keep), or do nothing so that you can use the Refresh button to update manually as you need.
Episodes to Keep: Choose to keep all episodes, all unplayed episodes, the most recent episodes, or previous episodes.
Keeping unplayed episodes is a useful way to organize your news podcasts. If you’ve played an episode (or a portion of it), you likely don’t need it anymore, but you probably do want to keep the ones you haven’t played yet. With this setting, iTunes automatically deletes the ones you’ve played.
Download Podcasts To Pc
If you sync podcasts automatically to your iPod, don’t set the Episodes to Keep pop-up to All Unplayed Episodes — use All Episodes instead. This is why: If you listen to part of a podcast episode on your iPod, and then sync the device, the podcast episode disappears from iTunes (because it is no longer unplayed).
Juice Podcast
If the episodes are still out there on the Internet, you can recover them by choosing Download All for the When New Episodes Are Available option.