For many people, the biggest hang up about getting a Yoto Player is that they don’t want to spend a bazillion dollars on building up their Yoto card collection.
Fortunately, you don’t have to spend a fortune to make sure your child has plenty to listen to on their Yoto Player.
For one, there is the free music station that will play music around the clock (separate stations for day and night and you can choose what time your Yoto Player switches to the night time station).
Second, there is the free daily Yoto Podcast which has fun stories, jokes, and music.
And third, you can make your own cards with your child’s favorite podcasts so they can listen to new and old episodes anytime they want for the high high price of free!
Here’s how to make Yoto Podcast cards – it’s so simple!
how to make Yoto Podcast cards
First, you’ll need a Make Your Own Card (or use the card that came with your Yoto Player).
Then go to the website of the podcast you want to make a card for and look for the RSS feed (it usually has a logo that looks like this:
If you can’t find it, grab the link from Spotify or Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and pop the link in to this site which will generate the RSS link for you.
Once you have the RSS link (I promise, that was the hardest part), go to the Yoto App and choose the Podcast tab from the top.
There you’ll see a section called “My Podcasts” with a big blue button that says “Add A Podcast.” Click that blue box.
In the screen that opens, you’ll paste the RSS link and then it’ll generate the podcast. Press the orange Save button.
Now when you go back to the app, you’ll see the podcast in the “My Podcasts” section. Tap the icon for that podcast and then when it pops up, click the three vertical dots in the top right corner.
Choose “Link to a Card” and follow the instructions and voila! You have a podcast card. It’ll generally have 10-20 back episodes on the card and will update as new episodes are added (if your Yoto Player is connected to the internet).
Any questions about how to make Yoto podcast cards? I’m happy to help!
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This is great information! What are your favorite free podcasts for kids?
https://everyday-reading.com/kids-podcasts/
One thing to note is that you must be connected to wifi to play them so they don’t work in the car, which is a bummer. But even with that caveat, this is hands down my favorite yoto feature and is so worth it for us since my daughter was already enjoying so many podcasts and now with the player she can listen to them I dependently.
I was wondering if I had done something wrong when I did this last week and then my kiddo couldn’t listen to that card in the car. Thanks for mentioning this so I don’t agonize over trying to fix it!
This is great! I’m struggling to get Spotify to generate an RSS link in the generator you shared. Do you know which Spotify link to use?
What podcast are you looking for an RSS feed for?
I can’t find the RSS for Kidnuz. Maybe a video screen share of how to find them? I’ve also tried google with no help.
KidNuz is pretty much the most challenging RSS feed to get (I don’t know why theirs is so tricky!). It’s https://feeds.blubrry.com/feeds/kidnuz.xml
I was struggling a bit as well. I ended up searching google and the link for the RSS feed would pop up easily. I’d just type in Circle Round podcast RSS and it felt a bit easier for me than searching for it on the podcast websites.
Here’s the Circle Round RSS feed: https://rss.wbur.org/circleround/podcast
The link didn’t work when I pasted it to get the RSS. I tried it on the KidNuz podcast from Spotify.
Here is the RSS feed for KidNuz: https://feeds.blubrry.com/feeds/kidnuz.xml
I can figure out how to link Bedtime Stories with R.A. Spratt. What is the link?
https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2547371
Hi! I’m trying to get the RSS feed links for Read Aloud Revival and Saints Alive Podcast, but I can’t get either to work with the link above. Any suggestions? 🙂 Thanks for this helpful blog!
Here is the RAR one: https://feeds.transistor.fm/readaloudrevival and her’s the SA one: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1882754.rss
(Usually, you can just google the name of the podcast and RSS and they’ll pop up – I just did that for these two)
Hi, thanks so much for finding these! However, Yoto seems giving me an error message saying “ Unfortunately we couldn’t find a supported audio stream at this URL.”
Is this typical or is there something I’m doing wrong? Thanks so much!
Hmm, I tested them both in the Yoto app and they both worked for me. If you’d like to send me a screenshot of what you’re seeing so I can help troubleshoot, send me a DM on Instagram (@everydayreading).
New to the Yoto, we have the mini. How do you play the radio station? Is that the same as the free music station you mentioned or different?
Thanks!
Yep – the radio/music station is one and the same. Generally, you just press the right orange button twice to start it
Would you share the rss feed for Bedtime Stories for Kids with Mr. Jim? After finding the podcast on the rss generator and clicking on the podcast’s rss logo, I get an error saying: “This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.”
This is the RSS link: https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/f908bc33-68fa-4916-a2c1-af18015ff9f6/9df731a0-f896-428e-839d-af180160de06/4b3dc5fd-508b-4d7f-9baf-af180160de2c/podcast.rss
Don’t click it (it’ll look like nonsense) – just copy and paste it into the Yoto app where it says to and it’ll work!
Thank you! I have four-year-old twins and they each got a Yoto mini for Christmas. They love them!
So you use 1 Yoto card per podcast, correct?
Correct!
Is there any work around way to get audiobooks from the library onto a make your own card?
Not that I’m aware of.
I came here to ask this exact question!
This is so helpful, thank you! We love our new Yoto player and are still getting to know all its cool features — this was a big one, thanks!!
Is it possible to change the icons for the different episodes of the podcast? One of the podcasts I want to add is a book being read so I wanted different icons for the chapters because right now they all say the same date.
Hmm, not that I know of!
Hi! I see how helpful you’re being finding RSS feeds. I couldn’t find one for Story Pirates that worked. Do you know that one?
It’s https://feeds.megaphone.fm/storypirates
For reference, I just googled “Story Pirates RSS feed” and it was the first result that came up.
Can we add the podcast to the card and use it without being connected to WiFi? I notice some comments saying they couldn’t but I believe in your write up, it just says that you won’t get new episodes without the connection. Thanks!
No – it’ll only work when you’re connected to the wifi.
I appreciate this post. Thank you! I’ve been challenged finding rss feeds for some of the podcasts my kids love, like Lucy Wow and Bobby Wonder. The only feeds I was able to find just include the same random collection of episodes jumping around various seasons. These podcasts have many seasons and many episodes but I can’t find them all on an rss feed. Any advice? Have you encountered this situation, where you find some episodes on rss feeds but not all of them? It’s been my made frustration with the yoto and trying to get podcasts on cards… Thanks!
Thank you so much for this information! My kids love listening to podcasts. I’ve tried a number of different ways to search for the RSS feed but am having no luck. When you search the podcast name and rss feed in the search engine does it usually pop up as one of the first results? I’m specifically looking for the God’s Big Story rss feed.
Try this one: https://podcasts.subsplash.com/gc5s7f3/podcast.rss
Hi! Thank you so much for all of your helpful articles. I’ve ordered labels from your link to make our own Podcast cards as well 🙂
I was able to find the RSS link for Circle Round, but absolutely cannot find the link for the Stories podcast. Are you able to share that one? Thank you so much!
Yep! http://rss.art19.com/stories-podcast
I have tried to pull the rss from life 5 places for Smash Boom Best (a favorite!!) Abd everyone it says ‘Unfortunately we couldn’t find a supported audio stream at this URL’.
I tried Googling it’s RSS, I liked it from Apple, kids listen, public radio, Spotify.
Haaaalp,🤪
Thank you!!
https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/smash-boom-best/itunes/rss.rss
Do you know if it’s possible to change the order of the episodes? Right now it’s only playing the most recent one and I’d like to be able to start at the beginning.
As far as I know, no.
We got our mini players in today! Yay! I think I found the rss link for The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian, but it looks like its only loading the two most recent seasons. Do you know if there is an rss link for a specific season or is it all tied to the entire podcast? Thanks for the help!!
Hmm, I’ve never heard of that before!