SCCC Podcast Help
Welcome to podcasting! A podcast, simply put, is a sermon that you can download onto your computer and listen to whenever you want. You can download specific sermon podcasts when one interests you or subscribe to a podcast so that it automatically downloads onto your computer whenever a new podcast is available.
Once the podcast is on your computer, you can listen to it there using your favorite media player, or transfer it onto your MP3 player to listen to it on the move!
Listening to a podcast is as easy as listening to your radio -- but with so many more advantages!
Sounds great, but what do I need to listen to these podcasts?
All you need is a computer with an internet connection! If you want to listen to a podcast on your computer, you will need a sound card (most newer computers come with one — if you've ever played any music or heard any sound come out of your computer, you have one), media playing software (like Windows Media Player, or iTunes or RealPlayer) and speakers.
If you want to take the podcasts with you, you'll need a portable media player like an iPod, an iRiver, or another MP3 player. What you'll do is download the podcasts onto your computer and transfer them onto your MP3 player.
OK, but how do I get these podcasts?
Subscribing to a podcast
If you want to subscribe to a podcast and automatically receive new episodes whenever they are broadcast (subscribing is free!), you can do it one of two ways:
- Subscribing using iTunes
If you have iTunes installed, just click the iTunes icon [ 
] at the top of the Online Sermons page. The iTunes program will load and from then on, every new sermon will be downloaded into iTunes and, optionally, into your portable media player.
Go to http://www.apple.com/itunes/ to download iTunes.
- Subscribing using other podcast software
If you use another podcast software (like Outlook, Juice, Doppler, Transistr), copy the show's RSS feed, which you'll find by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking on a Mac) on the show's rss icon [ 
] and copying the URL that appears. Then paste that URL into your podcast software's add podcast area.
Listening to the sermons online
If you want to listen to an individual SCCC sermon without downloading it, go to the Online Sermons page and click on one of the icons to the right of the sermon:
- Click on this to play a video (slides associated with that week's message) of the sermon in your browser (requires Adobe Flash Player v7+)
- Click on this to play an audio only version of the sermon from your browser.
- Click on this to download an audio mp3 file to your computer
- Click on this to download notes associated with that week's message (requires Adobe Reader)
- Click on this to download the PowerPoint document containing the slides associated with that week's message (requires PowerPoint Viewer)
*** Please note that the icons above will only appear if that option is available for the specific sermon.
