Part One dealt with recording and manipulating your voice. For those who came in late, you can learn about Audacity‘s use for Podcast.
Ok, where was I? I had just finished recording my booming voice, but I didn’t know how to integrate the podcast into Wordpress?
I asked Google this question and found there to be a few plugins that deal with podcasting. (If you have experience with any I found, please let me know.)
PodPress: supposedly the perfect plugin to get your podcast out to the world. It features automatic RSS creation for every major arena, including iTunes and BitTorrent, download options, graphical stats, and audio comments to name just a few.
I may give this a shot. To be honest, I overlooked this plugin on my first pass. I think this may be the most suitable solution.
PodCasting: I tried this plugin. It created the white page of PHP death on WordPress version 2.3.3. Supposedly it works for that, but I had to diagnose the error at the server log level. I finally gave up and deleted the plugin folder. The plugin can do some of what PodPress claims to accomplish. It was created during the Google Summer of Code 2007.
Plugin Tune Out
The PodPress solution would have been perfect, but I overlooked it. After fiddling with the Podcasting plugin to no avail, I decided to turn on FeedBurner’s SmartCast feature. This basically allows you to syndicate different forms of media. You have a few options when you configure SmartCast, including creating enclosures for audio, video, or image files, linking in a podcast image file, and entering title, and keywords. This all helps integrating your podcast with iTunes and other services.
So after I activated the SmartCast feature, I created a post, made a link to the podcast, and published. When I tested my feed in Google Reader, the media enclosure worked fine. I had a podcast with the media right there in the feed. Now I only needed people to listen to it. But that part I left up to all of you.
I didn’t wholly understand what a podcast brought to a blog and to an audience. It develops the richness of communication and opens up a whole new level of interaction with site visitors. If you’re thinking of doing a podcast, I encourage you to make the leap. I enjoyed making my first podcast, and hope to continue the practice in the future.
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Alright Jason, am I being dumb or overlooking something obvious here? I dont see your podcast…Did you publish it for the world to see? I looked both here on the site, and in my google reader.
Hey Jason, thanks for the nice explanation. I found it very helpful because I’ve always considered doing a podcast. Now I just need to pick up a quality mic for the comp. Thanks again for the instructions
Thanks, Andrew. I’m looking forward to listening to your first podcast. I hope this helped!
Are you thinking about creating a seperate rss feed for your podcasts? For my podcasts I do the same thing, however I have started writing my own podcast application as I would like to fully take advantage of the many tags.
But looking at that wp plugin I may just write it as a learning experience and use that
When is numero 2 out?
Hey, Tim, I posted it about a week ago today. You can click the Boombox Podcast Category on the sidebar to find it.
(for some reason your comment was caught in the spam tubes…sorry about that!)
Simon, I thought about it, but decided against at this point. I’m still deciding that fact. You going to help me make an intro to the podcast? I need some exploding rifts!
Numero two may be out this evening, depending on my frustration level. I’m shooting for tonight.
^^ cool, I will be waiting for it. You could make a podcast per week, something like Darren with him video posts…
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