Making A Podcast

Distributing your media files, maybe some shows that you have created or music videos that you have put together has become even easier now that you can turn these into podcasts and upload them so people from all over can view them and download them. These are the steps you will need to take to create the podcasts and everything you will need to have them in place.

You will need a domain name; this will be associated to your host site. Locating a domain is simple; doing a search online will yield many results. There will be a fee associated with a domain service; typically it is not a lot though. Few common domain name services are GoDaddy.com, Dotster.com, and NetworkSolutions.com. There are many others out there to choose from if these are not what you are looking for. You choose a name and if it is not already in use, they then enter this name into the intranet system for you and make sure it is distributed.

Now that you have a domain name you will need to have a host to upload your podcasts to and store your files on. The domain name will be associated with this host site. Any host that you pick will need to have a very large amount of disk space and bandwidth. The podcasts that you create will be large media files, both audio and video and you need a lot of room since there will be a lot of people downloading these and taking up memory. Once you have the host created they will give you some different address names. You will take these names and put them into your domain name account. This is how the domain name and host are associated and connected together.  Now your site can be found online by anyone and found say when a search is done through a search engine.

Next, install a piece of coding called dircast.php that will maintain the podcasts. Doing a simple search online will result in finding the coding you need. You will need to download this coding to your computer and then you will need to edit some of the coding to match your domain name. After that you will then just upload it to your site with the changes you have made. When you upload it, you will create a directory for it.

Once it is upload, it will create an RSS file and this RSS file will tell subscribers when you have new podcasts.

Lastly, start uploading your podcasts to the same directory as the dircaster.php location. After you upload these files, fill in information such as author, date, type, etc. Make sure you fill in as much information as possible so that your podcasts are easily searched out by users. Your video and audio files are ready for anyone to view now.
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