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I added the October 2009 sessions to the podcast. If you’re already subscribed, you don’t have to do anything. iTunes (or other podcasting software) will download the latest sessions automatically.

To subscribe to the podcast, visit the LDS General Conference Podcast page.

I finally updated the LDS General Conference Podcast to include the April 2009 sessions. Sorry it took me so long. I just plumb forgot until now.

If you’re already subscribed, you don’t have to do anything. The new sessions will automagically download.

For more info, check out the General Conference Podcast page.

Enjoy!

I’ve update my LDS General Conference Podcast with the sessions from October 2008. Enjoy!

I’ved updated my LDS General Conference podcast to include the sessions from the April 2008 conference. For those of you that are already subscribed, you shouldn’t have to do anything — your iTunes or podcasting software will automatically download the newest sessions. For those of you who are not subscribed yet, you can find instructions on my General Conference Podcast page.

Happy podcasting!

I’ve updated the LDS General Conference podcast to include the 4 sessions from October 2007. More details are on the General Conference podcast page.

I’ve added the April 2007 session of the LDS General Conference to the podcast. If you are already subscribed, don’t do anything. Your iTunes software (or whatever you use) will automatically download the latest conference sessions for you.

For those of you that are new to podcasting, just subscribe to the following link (you can use iTunes to do it). You’ll need to highlight this line, copy it, and paste it into iTunes:

http://thesmithfam.org/podcasts/lds-general-conference.xml

For those of you using Juice or some other “smarter” podcasting program, try clicking on this link and let me know if it works:

podcast://thesmithfam.org/podcasts/lds-general-conference.xml

This episode marks two full years I’ve been hosting this podcast. Wow, time flies when you’re having fun.

I’ve updated my LDS General Conference podcast to include the most recent conference, October 2006. If you are already subscribed, you don’t need to do anything. Your podcasting software (like iTunes) will automatically download the latest conference sessions. If you want to subscribe to the general conference podcast, just paste this link into your podcasting software:

http://thesmithfam.org/podcasts/lds-general-conference.xml

I’ve update my LDS General Conference podcast feed with the April 2006 Saturday sessions. The Sunday sessions aren’t available yet. I’ll post them when they are.

For instructions, see my previous post on General Conference podcasting.

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Please visit the new LDS General Conference Podcast page. The rest of this info is old.

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The LDS church makes its general conference sessions available as downloadable MP3s, which is great, except my iPod treats them as songs. I prefer for it to treat them as podcasts so that I can resume playing the talks where I leave off after each day’s commute to work. To that end, I created a podcast RSS feed for the October 2005 General Conference, downloadable here:

http://thesmithfam.org/podcasts/lds-general-conference.xml

If you’re a podcast addict like myself, you should know what to do with that link. If not, any popular podcasting software should work. Just find an option to “subscribe to a podcast” and use it with the above URL. This should work with amaroK, gtkPod, Juice (formerly iPodder), or any iPod management or podcasting software.

This feed lets you grab each whole session (4 total), but not individual talks. If there is demand, I may hack some python to automagically create a feed for each talk, which would be pretty darn cool too.

Note that I am not actually distributing the content; this podcast simply points to lds.org to download the MP3 files. This should avoid any legal issues, since I have respected all copyrights. I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve read all the fine print on lds.org and can’t find anything prohibiting this, so let me know if you think I’m in violation.