Hi guys, I have been approached by a big music forum in my area, who have asked to do a deal which includes having their podcast included in my App. I was hoping someone could give me some advice on what might be the best approach to do this? Thanks.

Do they have quite a few podcasts? If so, just use a menu page with multiple buttons linked to the podcasts using streaming audio sub screens (that is, if you or someone else will host the files on a web server) You could embed them but the app may grow too large.

They have loads, all of which are in iTunes. I never listen to podcasts so Im not fully sure how they work. Are you able to stream a Podcast from iTunes or do they directly have to be downloaded and then played? It may be a case in which I have to download the podcast, then re-upload to my web server. Unless I can place a link in My app which will then natively open iTunes and the Podcast can be played/downloaded that way? Any thoughts? Have not had chance to try this yet.

You should be able to if your client has the url's. That would be interesting to see coming from iTunes since I usually stream from a web server or embed them but I suspect it would work just like any other streaming podcast so the user would not have to leave your application.