Podcasting makes a video, audio, or transcript file available online for downloading via an automatic "feed", or subscription. You can then watch, hear, or read files in the podcast whenever you want from your computer or a portable media device. By subscribing to a podcast, you will automatically receive updates whenever new media in that format is published online.

The first thing you need is podcast subscription software, such as Apple's iTunes® (which has the software built in), or other services such as Odeo or Juice, to subscribe to a podcast and manage your podcast subscriptions. At that point, you will already be able to watch or listen to podcasts from your computer (provided your computer has the proper media adapters and drivers installed to play the media files). If you want to make your podcasts portable, you will need to transfer them from your computer to an iPod® or other portable media device. Separate podcasts are provided for video, audio, and transcript media, and you must subscribe to each media type separately to receive more than one.

Each media format available via podcast will have its own separate podcast link, and you must subscribe separately to each media format you want to receive. To see more details about a podcast and learn how to subscribe to it, click the link in your browser for the media format you want. To subscribe directly without reviewing details, right-click the link (or Control-click in MacOS) and select "Copy Link Location" or "Copy Shortcut" from the popup menu that appears. You can then paste the link into your podcasting software, per the software's instructions. If you are an Apple iTunes® user and have iTunes® software installed on your computer, you can click the link for the media format you want to subscribe directly from within iTunes®. To unsubscribe from a podcast, please follow the unsubscribe instructions for your podcasting software.

No. Our podcasts include only the sermon portion of our worship services. Because our worship services contain music and other artistic material governed by copyright agreements, we are unable to podcast our worship services in their entirety. Additionally, podcasting full-length services would result in very large files to be downloaded to your computer, taking up disk space and requiring lengthy download times. Over the next several months, Brentwood Baptist will be experimenting with a number of formats and offerings, and we invite your feedback.

Brentwood Baptist's podcasts are free for you to use. We invite you to subscribe to any of our podcast channels and to tell your friends about our podcasts.

First, be sure that you have video or audio player software installed on your computer, depending upon to which format you subscribed; then, verify that the correct media file was downloaded to your computer (you may need to modify the update settings in your podcasting software to ensure that this process occurs automatically). Next, check the update times in the podcast description and make sure that a new edition should have been posted. If a media file is not present and the update time has passed, please contact Brentwood Baptist using our Contact Us page.