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I'm using Gnome's Rhythmbox to listen to Podcasts. Some Podcasts don't provide an rss feed for downloading the episodes but only a itms:// link for iTunes.

Now I'd like to download them via a "normal" RSS reader/podfetcher.
How can I accomplish this?

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You should first subscribe to the Podcast using iTunes, then open your iTunes library.

If you go to your Podcasts listing in your iTunes library, you will see a list of the Podcasts you subscribe to. Right-click on the Podcast you want to copy the URL of and select "Copy Podcast URL". This will copy the URL to the RSS feed of the Podcast into your clipboard. You can then paste that link into whatever other application you are using.

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Thanks for the hint. Is there a possibility without using iTunes? – furtelwart Dec 7 '09 at 7:30
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I have not found a way to get the feed URL without using iTunes (and assuming the site doesn't publish the feed URL anywhere). Often it's so time-consuming to search/guess at what the URL would be that it's easier to just open up iTunes and do it that way. I sympathize with the desire to bypass iTunes entirely and will watch this thread to see if anyone comes up with a way to do that. – shawnr Dec 11 '09 at 21:01
Thanks for your research. I will post my information too, if I found sth new. – furtelwart Dec 16 '09 at 10:16
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See this blog post for a PHP tool.

http://www.zerologic.com/Blog/How-to-get-the-original-RSS-feed-for-a-podcast-in-iTunes.html

Or if you want a web browser based solution see this website that is reference in the link above and uses the same PHP tool.

http://itunes.so-nik.com/

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