BeyondPod keeps a local (cached) copy of each subscribed feed, so you can view the feed content even if you are offline. To get the latest feed content, you have to tell BeyondPod to update (synchronize) a particular feed or feeds. Sometimes updates can potentially take a very long time and consume large amount of bandwidth and battery. BeyondPod provides a complete control over what feeds get updated. Using the various choices available under Menu > Update and Download, you can update only one feed, all feeds in the current category, all feeds or just feeds that failed to update last time.
There are 2 ways to download podcasts for a given feed:
Keep in mind that if you invoke a feed update from the Content View (web browser), it will do a quick (feed only) update, and will not download any available podcasts. If you start the update from the Feeds View (Menu > Update) it will both update the feed and download any new podcasts.
You can also schedule updates to start regularly at a given time using the Update Scheduler>