If you are fairly knowledgeable with posting podcasts would you drop me a line? I can’t seem to get some issues worked out.
Thanks
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Did you get sorted out? If not, drop me a line, and I’ll help if I can.
If anybody’s interested, a really easy to get podcasting is …
1. Get yourself an account on http://www.box.net to hold your MP3s. It’s really cheap, bandwidth is not limited (vital for podcasting!), and it has a feature we can use for podcasts - it will generate your feed automagically.
2. Create a folder on box.net for your MP3s and get the feed URL for sharing the folder. This feed is already a simple podcast - it contains the vital enclosure tag and can be subscribed to from any newsreader / podcast program / or iTunes via “Subscribe to podcast” in iTune’s “Advanced” menu. However, it doesn’t contain the optional iTunes metadata which is needed if you want to publish your Podcast in the iTunes Music Store - and the easiest way to add that is with Feedburner …
3. Get yourself an account on http://www.feedburner.com It’s free!
4. Create a new feedburner feed using the feed URL of your box.net folder. Check the box for podcasting and Feedburner will add all the tags to the feed that flavour the feed for iTunes. Feedburner allows you to define the iTunes metadata.
5. If you want to submit your podcast to iTunes, then open iTunes, click Podcasts in the sidebar, click Podcasts Directory at the bottom of the window. This will take you to a page in the iTunes Music Store. At the bottom-left of the page you’ll see a panel “For Podcasters”. Click “submit a podcast” and give it your Feedburner feed URL.
ta da!
If you’re coding the feed yourself rather than using box.net and feedburner, then take a look at this http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html
My greatest issues have been with getting my audio file correct. I have managed to set up my podcast in itunes but it says the file is 1:01 for length. for the life of me I can’t get that fixed.
Hmm. That’s weird.
I’ve found that sampling rate (not the bit encoding rate) can upset some players, especially Adobe’s Flash player which assumes a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz.
Did you test the file in iTunes first, i.e. without delivering it via Podcast? This will tell you if its a file encoding issue or something to do with your Podcast XML. (Though it sounds like an encoding issue.)
Did you encode it using iTunes or using another encoder?
Try making sure your audio is sampled at 44.1 kHz and try encoding it using iTunes as a constant bit rate MP3. I find that 32 kbps is adequate if it’s just voice. You could also try AAC, but then you’re pretty much insisting that your subscribers use iTunes.
Hope something in here helps you track it down.