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What Is An RSS
Feed?
RSS feeds are very important to the transferring of podcasts
and being able to upload them and have them updated regularly.
If you are not completely sure what a podcast is, it is a file
that can be distributed regularly. The files, clips, or
episodes are of music, videos, news, comedy shows, and
anything else people think of record and turn into a podcast.
Anyone receiving podcasts are subscribers and use a podcast
client to view and to also receive regular updates and feeds
of new podcasts that are being added every day.
If you’re not sure what a podcast client is, simply it is a
program that you can download free and it enable you to watch
your podcasts. A podcast client search through RSS feeds and
updates your podcasts episodes as it sees new ones available.
RSS feeds are readable by machines that search out coding and
have become an integral part of the podcasting world.
RSS feeds were originally developed to share blogs and new
blogs posts. RSS feeds distributed out blog posts to all the
subscribers of a particular blog. This worked so well that
over time people figured out that you can do the same thing
with media files, by just changing the coding. So, coding was
added to RSS feeds to recognize media files and search out
media files and download them to a subscribes computer.
Thus, leading now to the RSS feeds being used for podcasts.
People added new coding and developed the feeds for what are
now podcasts. There are a few reasons why podcasts have become
so popular.
Podcasting is very inexpensive and does not cost a lot of
start up money to create a podcast. Or if you are subscribing,
most are free to download. There are some that do require a
subscriber fee; however the fee is usually not costly at all.
You can share these podcasts so quickly. Because the podcast
client searches for the RSS feeds that are for podcasts,
subscribers always have the latest episodes available. And
creators can very quickly and efficiently distribute their
chosen medium with very little cost or time involved.
All types of video and audio can be turned into podcasts.
Which means anything and everything imaginable can be turned
into a podcast and distributed to people all over the world.
A big reason why podcasts have had so much success is because
of the RSS feeds. These feeds have enable media to be
distributed in a cost effective, quick, and non evasive way.
Subscribers do not have to go to a web site any longer and
search through files and find what they want and then download
it. Now subscribers only have to sign up for the feed and new
podcasts are sent to them so they can view them when it is
most convenient for them.
With so much popularity now with the podcasts, news
organizations such as CNN have turned to podcasts to
distribute their news to many people who typically would not
watch. Along with radio stations like NPR that also use
podcasts to create a larger fan base and draw in more
listeners. Without RSS feeds podcasts would never have made it
to where they are now. |