Top Two Methods to Download Podcast to MP4, MOV, AVI, MP3, WAV, AAC

Overview

A podcast could be an audio file or a video file. Usually a podcast can cover any topic, like the crime, history, comedy, science, news, politics, etc. There are two methods to watch a podcast: streaming and downloading. Compared with streaming, downloading a podcast gives more convenience for users to enjoy the podcast on the go, especially where internet connection is not available. Now this article just introduces two popular methods to help users to download any podcast for offline viewing.

Method One: Use iTunes

Many podcast websites, like BBC, NPR, WHYY-FM, Public Radio International, etc put their podcasts on iTunes to share to many users. And also iTunes supports to download the podcasts. The steps are listed as below.

• Choose Podcasts menu> Click Shops to locate what podcast you want to download.
• Click the "Get" button to download a single podcast or click "Subscribe." button to download all available or future podcasts to your iTunes Library.

Of course, iTunes also supports to download podcasts outside the iTunes Store and you can download them by choosing File>Subscribe to Podcasts.

Method Two: Use Allavsoft

• Allavsoft is a professional podcast downloader which can download any podcast with the podcast URL.

• Allavsoft supports to download podcast from BBC, CBC Radio One, NPR, Public Radio International, WNYC, WHYY-FM, KCRW, CNET, This Week in Tech, Bloomberg Radio, Financial Times, SERIAL, etc with the original podcast quality.
• Allavsoft supports to download any audio podcast to MP3 or any other audio format and to download any video podcast to MP4 or any other video format.
• Allavsoft supports to download any free or paid audio or video podcast. Of course, if you have many podcasts to download you can use Allavsoft batch downloading function to download all of them at once.
• Allavsoft is not only a podcast downloader, but also a professional any video or audio downloader to download any online video or audio to any video or audio format.

Guide to Download Podcasts to MP3 or MP4

Now follow the guide below to download any needed podcast. The following guide will take downloading BBC podcast as the example.

Make Preparation: Free download Podcast Downloader

Free download the professional Podcast Downloader - Allavsoft ( for Windows , for Mac) , install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Import BBC Podcast URL

Go to BBC website. Search to find any BBC podcast that you want to download. Open this BBC podcast, copy its URL from the address bar and paste it to Allavsoft.

Step 2 Set final output format (Optional)

By default, Allavsoft will automatically save the BBC podcast original file format as the final output format. But saving BBC podcast to other output formats are also supported and users only need to click the "Automatically Convert to" button to choose MP3, WAV, AAC, WMA, etc as your final output format.

Step 3 Start to download BBC podcast

Click "Download" button to complete downloading BBC podcast to MP3 or to any other audio format.