I did follow Caleb’s directions on how to find the old episodes, but I just cant get them to iTunes.

Thanks in advance

I did some more research, and I was able to download the .mp3 files of the past shows and burn them to disk on iTunes. I’m posting a detailed description of the process for anyone else that may be experiencing difficulties. These directions are for the Windows XP operating system. The concepts will be similiar for other Windows operating systems, but the details will differ. Again, thanks for the great shows!

1. Find an old episode using Caleb’s directions and click on the “[mp3] Download the show” link (the show will start downloading – it will take a few minutes)

2. Once the show starts to play, pause it (my computer has Apple Quicktime as the default player, so Quicktime starts to run and I have to click on the pause button)

3. Go to the Tools menu on the internet menu, and open the Internet Options box

4. When the Internet Options box opens, go to Browsing History in the General Tab and open the Settings box

5. When the Settings box opens, open the View Files box

6. When the View Files box opens, click on the Internet Address heading to organize the files by alphabeltical order

7. Scroll through the files and look for all of the files listed under http:\\thefightworkspodcast.com to find the audio file for the episode that you downloaded – on my computer, the audio files are separated from the other Fightworks files, and the Quicktime audio file is located in the bottom portion of the list

8. Drag the audio file to your iTunes music library – from there, you can listen to it on your iPod or burn to disc as you normally would

I started listening to the Fightworks Podcast last fall during the series of interviews with the Gracies, and I’ve become hooked on it! Every Sunday morning I download the show from iTunes and burn it to CD so that I can listen to it during my commute to work. I’d like to download the old shows and listen to them on CD, too, but despite all of your instructions I still can’t figure out how to do it. I can download the old shows, but they start playing on Quicktime and I can’t locate a file to drag to iTunes (per your suggestion to Jon on March 4th). I’d really appreciate any other suggestions that you can make. Thanks for all of the hard work and the great content!

Don Bluedorn (Pittsburgh, PA)

I would like them to be there too. In the past I had a way of influencing that but it appears to be inaccessible to me now. I know other podcasters are having similar concerns about iTunes not displaying more episodes. Hopefully iTunes and / or Feedburner will figure out a way to make more older shows visible (assuming I’m not just missing something here).

Is there anyway that they could be put into the archives of the subscription area on itunes, so that i can have them alongside the newer episodes that download automatically each Sunday?

Right now only the last few episodes show up in there.

Cheers,
Greg

Once the files are on your computer you can then drag them into iTunes so you can bring them with you on your iPod! Give that a shot!