Help Using RSS Feed

sandhu2723

August 22, 2010, 05:36 AM posted in General Discussion

Hi. I signed up just a few hours ago and got the Basic plan. I would like to download all the high quality podcasts for Newbie-Intermediate, but I don't see an easy way of doing so. I joined the groups and it didn't do anything. The only thing that works is adding bookmarks or using the sets, which is NOT what I want.

Can anyone help me out? Sorry for the trouble.

go_manly

August 22, 2010, 06:03 AM

You can't download them all in one hit, if thats what you want. Tell me, what was the duration of the plan you signed up for?

sandhu2723

August 22, 2010, 06:15 AM

You cannot? Ah, I thought that's what the "+1400 audio lessons" meant, but I guess that didn't mean they are conveniently available.

I signed up for the $14 basic, monthly, recurring plan.

go_manly

So, in other words, you were hoping to get 1400 lessons for $14 with a single download.

sandhu2723

I don't appreciate the accusation. If I wanted to get +1400 lessons for $14, I would opt to get all the podcasts, not just the newbie-intermediate.

I'm just trying to figure out how the personal feed works, as there is not a single thing there at the moment.

Also, I'm a student, so until I figure out how to get the 20/25% discount offered, I'm not going to pay more than month-to-month.

Finally, I've had older podcasts from ages ago, before ChinesePod slowly became premium. I'd like the higher quality versions of those too.

I hope the rest of the site isn't this hostile.

Tal

I'm pretty sure that new lessons only get added to your feed as new lessons come out. Best advice I can give you is spend an hour or two browsing through the lessons, choose a few you really like, and get stuck into studying those. Having 1400 lessons right there on your PC isn't necessarily better than coming back for more once you've had a good crack at half a dozen or so. We're mostly pretty friendly here, (I hope).

matthiask

Hi,

for the student account, you have to register with your .edu mail or you should send a copy of your student cart to support@chinesepod.com

As far as I understand the policy, you have access to +1400 lessons, but yeah, sadly no one click stop.

There was a promotion once for having a one-click-800-lessons stop, but I did not dig deeper on that.

you will find your feed settings at http://chinesepod.com/sandhu2723/feedsettings - there you can also adjust to receive a lesson a week from the archive and not only the new lessons.

Hope that helps.

sandhu2723

Oh, okay. That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!

I'm completely new to the site, so I didn't understand why selecting the groups like it says to didn't add any podcasts, but now I get it. I should see them sprouting up as the days pass by.

Thanks again!

sandhu2723

Thanks for explaining how to get the discount! Simple enough.

See you later!

greglow

September 26, 2010, 07:16 AM

I've just gone and browsed all over that feed settings page. Sorry but I just don't get how to enable it to take items from the archives. Nothing on that page talks about that. For each channel, it just shows "subscribe" or "unsubscribe". I unsubscribe. I then subscribe. It doesn't mention the archives at all.

Sorry but where on earth do you set that?

suxiaoya

Hi greglow,

There are two ways to add lessons to your lesson list: you can "subscribe" to new content or "bookmark" lessons from the archive. So, when you "subscribe", which is what you're doing on the feed settings page, you'll receive lessons only when a NEW lesson of that level/show is published.

To add lessons that have already been published, browse the Lessons section and bookmark the lessons or lesson sets you like. Just go to the individual page and click "bookmark". That lesson should then appear at the top of your lessons tab on your dashboard.

Please let me know if you have any further questions or problems. We want to make this a simple and intuitive process, so your feedback is really valuable. We can perhaps look at adding a note about bookmarking on the feed settings page.

Thanks!