Next Version of iTunes Will Support Podcasts

Published by GadgetSpy May 25th, 2005 in Gadgets, Portable Audio, Audio, iPod.

Apple showed built-in podcasting features in a new version of its iTunes software on Sunday, promising its availability within the next two months.

For anyone not upto date with the new development Podcasts are sound files and audio content such as radio shows, which have surged in popularity and do not require an iPod to listen to them on the go.

At the “D3: All Things Digital Conference”, an annual technology conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Steve Jobs discussed the popularity of podcasting, and said that the next version of iTunes would support them directly.

“Already millions of people are subscribing to these podcasts’” said Jobs. “This is going to send it into orbit.”

“Current plans call for podcasts to be free downloads,” wrote Mena Trott, co-founder of Six Apart Inc., and also in the audience. “Users will submit their podcasts and Apple will be hand picking the content it makes available to iTunes users.”

“From the demo, we saw you could put podcasts under categories. It makes it much easier to have, access, organize and sync podcasts to an iPod.” The updated software version 4.9 organizes the podcasts within the iTunes store.

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