Podcasting

Podcasting is now going 'main stream' and major corporations are using this as a method to communicate with their employees, suppliers and most importantly customers. Read this article

A PodCast (taken from the Apple IPod) is no more than an audio file that can be downloaded to a MP3 device, or computer. You can also have a PodCast play inside a web page.

To satisfy both types of users you need to offer several methods. This is playing with Windows Media Player

 

This is an example of just linking the file to text or an image. This enables the user to listen or download the file. This is an .MP3 file.. There is a problem with this....watch.

 

This is an example playing with flash..this is the most common method

 

You will create your podcast using Audactiy and then convert it into a mp3 file. You need to install Audacity and Lame on your home computer. You can get these from the download page.

I have created a movie on how to setup the lame compression program to work with Audacity. Watch the movie then install Audacity and extract the lame zip file.

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Embedding your podcast

For your podcast to play inside your podcast webpage you need to make a few changes to the audio folder in your website and also to the podcast script that appears in your podcast webpage.

This movie will show you how to make the code changes.

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