ITunes will automatically download the files or you can click to download some of my past shows. If you are still scratching your head in confusion I suggest you try iTunes and subscribe to this blog – look in the business and marketing category in iTunes and you should find The Yaro Podcast. This is what I would call true podcasting – automatic download of an audio file directly to a portable device. If you use iTunes and subscribe to this blog every time I release a new podcast audio show iTunes will download it for you automatically and if you have it synced to your iPod it will transfer it for you as well. One of the most common podcast subscribing tools is iTunes. mp3 file) podcast reading software will automatically download it or mark the podcast as including an enclosure, which is a method of signifying that a blog post contains some media content. Whenever I create a new entry to this blog that includes a podcast (distinguishable because it contains a link to an. You will find a podcast category in the tab at the top that leads to a listing of all the podcast shows I have created (more on creating podcasts later). This blog, the one you are reading now, has podcasts. Some podcast feed reading software such as iTunes are configured to download and transfer the podcast directly to your portable player automatically so you can plug it in and walk away a few minutes later with your latest podcasts downloaded and ready to digest. These files can then be listened to on your computer or you can transfer them to your portable player to listen to later. In fact often podcasts are distributed through a blog and provided your feed reading software handles podcasts you should be able to either instruct your reader to download new podcasts whenever they become available or manually choose which podcasts you want to download by clicking a link to the audio file. You subscribe to podcasts much like you subscribe to blogs. It’s all about having the files come to you through syndication instead of you going to the files through search. I had a knowledge gap because I still didn’t understand RSS and content syndication.Īfter playing with RSS feed readers (which you should know about if you followed my instructions and read my primer article about RSS before reading this article) I understood the difference between searching and downloading music files and subscribing to podcasts. When I first heard of podcasting I didn’t understand what made it different from simply searching and then downloading a music file and listening to it much like I had been doing for years with MP3 music tracks. It really doesn’t matter, as long as you have some way to play music on your computer you will be able to listen to podcasts. However you don’t have to listen to podcasts only on iPods you can use your computer with some music software such as Windows built-in Media Player or iTunes for mac (which has a podcast library), or your smartphone, or even in your car. The reason it became linked with the iPod in name was because people download the broadcasts (audio shows) to listen to on their iPods. Podcasting is a form of audio broadcasting on the Internet. There are other audio file types that are used for podcasting but in general as long as you have a music player on your computer you should be able to listen to a podcast file. Some of that definition is quite technical, but all you really need to know is that an MP3 is a popular audio file type for podcasts. In popular usage, MP3 also refers to files of sound or music recordings stored in the MP3 format on computers.Īhh, right. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount of data (10:1 compression is common) required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners. Wikipedia: MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. ![]() The most popular format of a podcast is MP3. Apple was lucky/smart enough that their brand was wrapped into a term for a new technology much like the Sony Walkman becoming the popular name for a portable radio/cassette player or inline skates being called “rollerblades”, which is brand name for a company that produced inline skates. The word “podcasting” is a portmanteau combining the words “broadcasting” and “iPod.” In case you have had your head in the sand recently or don’t keep up with popular technology an iPod is a portable music player produced by Apple Computers. RSS forms the distribution method for podcasts and you should have a basic understanding of RSS before you start to play with podcasts. ![]() This article is for people that have absolutely no idea what a podcast is, how they can use them and why they would want to bother at all.īefore you continue if you have no idea what RSS is I strongly suggest you read this article first – What is RSS and How Do I Use It?.
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