The Missouri Botanical Garden podcast is slightly different than your average podcast. Your average podcast will be audio only and will consist of weekly or monthly "episodes" that use an rss feed to load into iTunes. This podcast consists of one single media rich file that displays images as well as sound and a few sound effects as well.

It is for this reason that you need to download this file and load it manually into iTunes in order to play it or sync it with your iPod. The instructions listed below will help guide you through this process.

Step One:

Right click on this link and choose "Save target as.." or "Save link as..." (61.2 MB)

Note: If you use Internet Explorer, you may have to rename the file to MOBOT Podcast.m4a as it may try to rename the file to MOBOT Podcast.mpeg.

Step Two: Save the file somewhere on your computer.
Step Three: Open iTunes
Step Four:

Go to File > Add File to Library...

Step Five:

Select the file:

Step Six:

The file will now appear in your Music playlist

Step Seven:

Now you can sync your iPod and the file will appear in the Songs playlist (unless you created your own playlist for it)