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Posted by woscar on Apr-22-2009 16:19:

Setting up a Podcast

Hey guys, I'm looking for advice on what is the best way to set up a Podcast for free. I've been looking into several popular solutions like Libsyn and Podomatic but they both charge for bandwidth and hosting which I really don't need since I'll be hosting the files on another server.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Posted by chris harrington on Apr-22-2009 17:11:

i have used mypodcast.com before its ok but not amazing. but like u said its free which is a plus

Posted by woscar on Apr-22-2009 17:26:

Thanks man, does it let you host your files in an external server instead of using theirs?

Posted by woscar on Apr-22-2009 18:28:

Ben, where the hell are you?

Posted by Ivand on Apr-22-2009 18:39:

podomatic

Posted by woscar on Apr-22-2009 19:08:

quote:
Originally posted by Ivand
podomatic

Yeah, I looked into that one but it only has 800MB of storage and a monthly bandwidth of 5GB. I'm kind of expecting a lot of traffic so I don't think that would be the best solution.

But thanks for replying

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Apr-22-2009 19:41:

Just find one of those cheap over sold hosting places and then write the podcast xml file yourself.

Podcast = XML playlist + mp3 file... its not rocket science.

Posted by woscar on Apr-22-2009 20:45:

quote:
Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Just find one of those cheap over sold hosting places and then write the podcast xml file yourself.

Podcast = XML playlist + mp3 file... its not rocket science.

I know, but it's really not THAT simple to write the xml file.

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Apr-22-2009 22:23:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson...cs.html#example

Posted by woscar on Apr-23-2009 05:02:

Thanks man, I had already seen that one but it's kind of a pain in the ass because you have to update it manually every time you add a new file. There are sites that take care of this automatically...all you have to do is upload the file and not worry about anything else. The only thing I need is a site that lets me use my own server and bandwidth.

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Apr-23-2009 05:19:

quote:
Originally posted by woscar
Thanks man, I had already seen that one but it's kind of a pain in the ass because you have to update it manually every time you add a new file. There are sites that take care of this automatically...all you have to do is upload the file and not worry about anything else. The only thing I need is a site that lets me use my own server and bandwidth.

Look for some sort of script you can deploy yourself then on your own server, or an application that can run on your computer to generate the file for upload.

I Googled "Podcast generator" and got this: http://podcastgen.sourceforge.net/

Posted by woscar on Apr-23-2009 15:25:

Awesome find mate, will definitely look into that

Posted by chris harrington on Apr-23-2009 18:30:

quote:
Originally posted by woscar
Thanks man, does it let you host your files in an external server instead of using theirs?

unfortunately no

Posted by woscar on Apr-24-2009 15:39:

quote:
Originally posted by chris harrington
unfortunately no

Yeah, that's what I thought...

Posted by jdat on Apr-24-2009 18:20:

If you ain't willing to do the effort for the technical stuff I wonder what efforts you'll go through for the content

Posted by woscar on Apr-24-2009 18:22:

quote:
Originally posted by jdat
If you ain't willing to do the effort for the technical stuff I wonder what efforts you'll go through for the content

Yeah, great logic