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Comment by bastawhiz | Hacker News Reader

You cannot download these podcast episodes as a file because they are protected with DRM. Seriously, find one of these shows and try getting a file from it

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Are all podcasts protected this way or just some specific ones? Because I picked a random one from the front page of the podcast section in iTunes on Win10, and it worked for me with zero issues[0].

If you can find a podcast on Apple Podcasts for which the method I described in my other comment doesn't work, please post it here. Because it would feel kinda strange if Podcasts app applied DRM like this only to some specific podcasts and not all of them.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34524966

No: this isn't just any random podcast from the iTunes homepage. It only applies to podcasts which are hosted by Apple, not ones which Apple lists in its directory. This is a very small percentage of shows.

Here is an example. Curious if you can get it to work on Windows, because I physically cannot save the audio to a normal file on Mac. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/test-podcast/id1667708...

Do you have an example that would be findable via iTunes on PC? This one doesn't seem reachable/searchable there.

My suspicion is that iTunes for PC won’t even show listings for DRM protected podcasts, which is why you can’t find it.

It shows on iTunes for PC just fine. I have confirmed in another reply in this thread that I was able to see the DRMd podcast episode posted by @bastawhiz on PC, but I was not able to download it.

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