Chris Alemany at Murky View has an easy step-by-step guide for podcasting using a Mac and a WordPress blog.
(Podcasting is a form of blogging that allows listeners to subscribe to an audio feed, usually in the form of downloadable MP3s. And now you know roughly as much about it as I do.)
Chris uses WordPress, but I gather the process is virtually identical with Moveable Type.
If you need a lot of handholding, and you don’t mind a slightly more convoluted process, check out this tutorial at Engadget. Also, if you aren’t running a WordPress or Moveable Type blog — for instance, if you’re on Blogger — the very last bit with the code for linking to the MP3 file should prove handy.
While we’re at it, Tod Maffin has a superb tutorial on the basics of producing a good-sounding podcast. (He also produces The Feed, a proposed radio show aimed at linking podcasters and radio listeners.)
Have you tried the code at Engadget’s guide? It goes something like
I’d be interested in knowing if that works.
Whooee! Thankee fer postin’ that, RobFeller. I jest posted me up another little song but I ain’t yet figgered out how t’ make a real podcast usin’ my blogger.com boogin’ tool an’ the blogspot.com boog hostin’. I can’t see how t’ wrap the mp3 inta enclosure tags. I tried jest writin’ the tags inta the html but the enclosure din’t show up in my rss xml.
I thought mebbe the podcastin’ was gonna catch on bigtime a few months ago but it don’t seem t’ be able t’ break through the fringe, so far. Mebbe its time ain’t come yet or elsewise mabbe it’s a flash in the ol’ pan.
Yores trooly,
JimBobby
Whooee! Thankee fer that, Robbie. I think what I tried was exactly that enclosure code. It just gets stripped out when the xml is created by the Blogger.com engine. I’ll give’r anuther try an’ letcha know how it works.
JB
I may have the answer: FeedBurner’s SmartCast feature. Run your feed through FeedBurner, and it’ll do the conversion.