Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

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Setting Up a Podcast

September 1, 2005

Tutorial / How-tos

May 2007: See updated tuto­r­ial on set­ting up a podcast

I suc­cess­fully set up a pod­cast today.

Here are the steps involved:

  • I down­loaded a free­ware record­ing pro­gram called “Audac­ity”
  • I also down­loaded from their web­site a plu­gin to con­vert audio to mp3 for­mat which is what is used in pod­cast­ing. There are instruc­tions on how to install the plu­gin on Audacity’s site
  • I used my head­set micro­phone to record the pod­cast using Audac­ity. I saved the file as an mp3.
  • I used soft­ware called Feed For All to cre­ate a RSS feed. I bought this soft­ware last spring.
  • I uploaded the mp3 file and XML doc­u­ment which con­tains the RSS feed to our pro­duc­tion server
  • You can “sub­scribe” to the feed with iTunes (I’m sure there are other ways to do it but this was the eas­i­est). Select “Sub­scribe to Pod­cast” from the Advanced option on the toolbar.

Resources I looked at or was told about:

3 Comments

  1. Randy

    March 27th, 2006

    Do you archive your ‘casts and if so, how are they archived? Are they just mp3 files or do they have to be set up differently?

  2. Jeff

    March 28th, 2006

    I am not quite sure what you mean by archiv­ing the pod­casts. The files are mp3s. The dif­fer­ence between “pod­cast­ing” and just hav­ing an mp3 file linked on a site is that pod­cast­ing takes advan­tage of RSS. RSS “deliv­ers” new con­tent to the sub­scriber through an RSS reader or a pro­gram like iTunes that allows you to sub­scribe to the RSS feed. Pre­vi­ous “pod­casts” are archived within the RSS feed and will be avail­able to down­load through the iTunes interface.

  3. thirtyonethree :: the creative blog of Jeff Bridgforth » Setting up a Podcast, Take 2

    April 26th, 2007

    […] Over a year and a half ago, I did a post on set­ting up a pod­cast. Essen­tially I just shared what I had learned in the process of set­ting one up myself. I had found out that it is not very complicated. […]