Patent ID: 8799348

Claim:
A method of processing a podcast, comprising: maintaining, by a client device, a multi-episode podcast feed with an online media store upon receiving a new podcast episode in the multi-episode podcast feed, the new podcast episode having podcast metadata content and podcast media content; parsing, by the client device, the podcast metadata content of the new podcast episode to identify at least one new-feed-URL tag identifying a new location of the multi-episode podcast feed that is external to the online media store; obtaining the new-feed-URL tag from the podcast metadata content; determining, by the client device, whether a user of the client device has a subscription for automatically downloading episodes of the multi-episode podcast feed; tagging, by the client device, additional podcast episodes downloaded by the user with the obtained new-feed-URL tag upon determining that the user is not subscribed to the multi-episode podcast feed; and tagging, by the client device, all previously existing podcasts in the multi-episode podcast feed and all new podcast episodes in the multi-episode podcast feed with the obtained new-feed-URL tag upon determining that the user is subscribed to the multi-episode podcast feed, wherein tagging includes substituting the new URL for an old URL previously associated with the podcast or episodes.