Please use the links below to navigate to specific questions:
- Browsing the Stories
- Purchasing Individual Stories
- Downloading Individually Purchased Stories
- Playing Free Podcasts
- Downloading Free Podcasts
- Troubleshooting the Free Podcast Player
- Changing your subscription password or email address
Browsing the Stories
There are almost 70 stories of various lengths in the catalogue. To help you find the stories easily, the column headings are clickable, allowing you to order the stories by Title & Description (alphabetically), Theme, Length & Year. Clicking once will order the results from low to high, clicking twice will do the opposite.
Clicking on a Theme word will take you to another page where you’ll find other stories with the same Theme. On that page, a list of clickable Theme titles will also appear in the left column.
Sort columns by clicking the arrows at the top
Purchasing Individual Stories
- You can purchase any number of individual stories via Paypal if you are not a subscriber to Stories of the Journey Home.
- You can pay using a credit or debit card or a Paypal account if you have one.
- Clicking on the
button will take you to Paypal, where you can choose to edit the contents of your shopping cart, continue shopping or proceed to the checkout, where you can pay using your payment of choice. - If you choose to continue shopping you will be brought back to the main ‘Stories’ page on this site, where clicking on any other ‘Add to cart’ button will take you again to Paypal.
- To get back to Paypal without adding anything more to your cart, use the ‘View Cart / Checkout’ link in the left-hand column.
- Once you have completed the payment process, you will be directed to a page containing links to the stories you have purchased.
- You will also be sent a confirmation email containing the same information.
Downloading Individually Purchased Stories
The page and email containing links to the stories you’ve purchased will look like this:
Download Individually Purchased Stories
- If you have purchased more than one story, they will each be shown as individual links.
- NB: The download links will expire 24 hours from the time of purchase, so make sure you download and save them within that time.
Clicking on the story link will bring up a dialogue box that looks something like this:
Internet Explorer file download dialogue box
- Choose ‘Save’ and you’ll be given a choice as to where to save it. Make sure you know where you saved it so you can find it again!
- Once it’s saved to your machine, you can:
- play it using your chosen media player
- save it onto an external device like an MP3 player, or
- burn it to CD to listen to it elsewhere
Playing Free Podcasts
- Listen to the Free Podcast online by clicking the ‘play button:
Podcast player - 'play' button
- When you click play, the speaker icon on the player will turn into the volume control while the track is playing, and the play icon will become a pause icon:
Podcast player - 'pause' and 'volume' controls
Downloading Free Podcasts
- Downlading the podcast on a PC using Internet Explorer:Right-button click on the ‘*Right Click* to Download’ link and choose ‘Save Target As’ then choose where you want to save the file:
Internet Explorer - right click and save
- Downlading the podcast on a PC using Firefox:Right-button click on the ‘*Right Click* to Download’ link and choose ‘Save Link As’ then choose where you want to save the file:
Firefox - right click and save
- Downloading the podcast on a Mac using Safari:
Right-button click on the ‘*Right Click* to Download’ link and choose ‘Download linked file as’. If you don’t have a right button on your mouse, hold down the ‘Ctrl’ key whilst clicking and the following menu will appear. You can then choose where you want to save the file:
Mac: Right click or 'Ctrl' click and save
Troubleshooting the Free Podcast Player
- If the player is not working properly, make sure you have the latest version of the Adobe Flash player installed.
Changing your subscription password or email address
- To change either your subscription password or the email address associated with your membership, you need to be logged in to StoriesoftheJourneyHome.com
- Once logged in, click the link ‘View your Account Settings’ which is found on most pages near the top of the left column, with the title ‘Hi (your username)’:
View your Account settings
- On the Account Settings page, you can to change any information regarding your account, apart from your user name. Remember to save your changes.