Podcasting

The Windows version of Podcasting Starter Kit has been live in the Tutorials section for ages, but for some reason I completely spaced adding the Mac OS X edition to the library. I just made a minor update to the Windows version as well, so both guides received an up-to-the-minute makeover. If you’ve already purchased [...]

One of the most complicated aspects of podcasting is getting great sounding recordings of people over phone lines or through a remote VoIP connection. Battling latency is a constant possibility with VoIP and landline services vary from house to house, to the point you may end up with some callers sounding great and others sounding [...]

Growing the audience of your podcast can be tricky. Simply posting audio files and providing an RSS feed won’t guarantee you hundreds or thousands of subscribers. Listing your podcast in all the known directories, like Yahoo! and iTunes is certainly a good start (Robin Good offers a great list of places to submit your podcast). [...]

The million and one options for creating and hosting podcasts generates more confusion than it should. In my mind, once you’ve got an audio file, the last thing you need to worry about is which tools to use in distribution. Windows servers vs. Linux servers. ASP pages or PHP pages to advertise your RSS feed. [...]

After you get the hang of all the audio recording stuff associated with podcasting, you still need to figure out how to publish your RSS feed. The safest way to avoid complications in publishing an RSS feed is to publish using online software like FeedBurner or a content management app like WordPress. Not everyone wants [...]

On a mailing list that Chris Pirillo runs, Vancouver blogger and conference organizer Darren Barefoot asked how to reduce the background noise he was getting when recording interviews with a setup that included nice unidirectional microphones and a compressor. Here’s my response:
I’m writing here as a musician, not someone who records talk-show-style podcasts (I do [...]

The addition of podcasting in iTunes is outstanding for those of us who publish podcasts. It’s also an improved experience for subscribing to podcasts. As a subscriber to several podcasts, I’m finding certain things about the iTunes user interface to be mildly frustrating. For instance, I want more control over downloading shows. I’d love to [...]

Apple did a great thing by adding podcasting support to iTunes. It makes it easier for those of us who don’t like to hack 10 different things together to subscribe and listen to our favorite audio programming. They also made podcast publishing confusing for those of us creating podcasts by adding some new tags to [...]

One of the key advantages of the new iTunes 4.9 with podcasting support over all other media player alternatives (including previous versions of iTunes) is the ability to offer direct subscription links that never expose the underlying RSS code for your podcast feed. When someone wants to subscribe to a podcast in iTunes, they simply [...]

If you’re an iPod owner or just prefer the iTunes interface to the myriad media player options, Apple is making it easier to subscribe to podcasts. Of course, one of the podcasts we hope will be at the top of your list is The Chris Pirillo Show. We continue to broadcast live every Thursday from [...]