How to audio podcast
Podcasting is gaining a lot of popularity due to many reasons. People can create sort of radio programs to share with the world; they don’t need to own a radio program to get their voice to the world. They can record tutorials and let their subscribers download them at their own convenience. Its easy too, all you have to do is follow this step-by-step procedure to get yourself done. Podcasting is frequently undertaken by people these days. Podcasts are coming in various uses these days.
First of all you need to create an audio that you want to podcast. You can record and edit this audio with any software you have available. Audacity is software available for free and it’s gaining day by day increasing popularity. Most people are accepting it as their audio recording and editing tool, you can do that too.
When you are done recording the audio, you need to first convert it into mp3 format, if it isn’t already. You can use any software to do this job for you. If you are recording just a voice, you may use a 56K bit rate or if you have music in your file you may choose to use a bit rate between 64K and 128K, depending on the quality you desire.
When your mp3 is ready, upload it to a web server. If you have a website, then you own a web server automatically. You can upload this mp3 on your website through ftp, or if you have alternate uploading method. Note down the URL of your mp3 and the file size in bytes.
Now you need to create an RSS feed for your podcast. You may create your own in notepad if you know a little XML and make the extension of file as “.rss”. Its better if you use software which can create the RSS feed for you, in that way you won’t have to learn XML.
When you are done with your RSS feed, upload it on your website. Note down the URL because that URL will be what people will need in order to download your audio podcast.
Before publishing it, try testing it. If this audio podcast is working, its time for you to publish it on to blogs for letting people know about it. That’s all the basics you need to know. Now you can podcast your own audio and let the world hear you.
