" privilege never once heard about podcasting the ability create your online radio show and distributed to anyone in the world -- on this -- of lawyers say the basics of podcasting. From free to post production and we are just sit down with Leo Laporte from this week in tech and talk about his advanced set up again -- I'm Kevin Rose welcome -- system."

" It was important to remember about podcasting is it to be as advancers basic is you want to make it in advance me like multiple Mike's multiple guest. But what they -- that a little bit let's start up with the basics right so for the basic podcast there's two components that need. Number one need at PC or -- or Mac and then the second component that you need is you microphone. And it now it's synching unlike videos audio is far less taxing two years to your PC or Mac whatever. And the initial investment can be much much lower yeah that's actually one that very common mistakes that the first time podcast is make as a blot my brand new. -- lot of fans America generous lot of heat lot of -- a lot of that I edit outside ambient noise picked up on the microphone so even if you have a decent machine already can probably just use that right now but microphones are completely different story. I'd you can spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars on a microphone. But you can also go very cheaper outspent thirty dollars we suggest using -- Logitech desktop -- who works really well. Now for the road where like is it works really well because it's US be. And it's is driver such as plug and play -- you ready to go that's that's like cheap solution exactly net. That went thinks they're really remembers that microphones are your best investment tears to your podcast so. We really suggest spending at least fifty dollars get. Something like the sure microphone. It said S and fifty it's really nice fifty bucks it's worth the investment. Get it because a podcast is really gonna benefit from that triggers a look at Mikey -- it is a little bit. A better sound card most motherboard so that integrated audio we heard some problems with some noise little -- kissing on some of the cheaper integrated sound cards so -- here's what from creative obviously very popular -- the audio G is just an external version the XPG and there's a few of the cards or at least two in the show and it's right it especially like I said if -- road warrior -- podcasting -- laptop. You can get PC card solution created makes one and -- to NS works really well and it's not that. Not that expensive either let's go for if you're going to conventions and things like that he does have that better sound card write your laptop -- it. Another thing that's it's really important to the podcast that actually essential to the podcast is headphones headphones are. You -- you. You really need headphones number one. Because you want to hear every single little nuance that's going on during shows so you need something with a really good because you response. And basically also want to get something that goes over your ears so it's kinda cancels out the outside new -- and if you like iPod like ear buds are gonna deathly -- it that it could not."

" So those are gonna -- you like what as a as a -- both like thirty dollars that is very -- just get something like this and with a decent frequency response threats and the next thing -- you have to think about a little -- little bit later on is it for -- like multiple -- have multiple Mike Hsu -- want something like this -- which is -- basic -- and this gives -- multiple -- in the back here's a -- Here's all the different X or imports. And -- to bring up the different sales or bring them down depending on what you're doing if you have sound effects he won a role in our we have a telephone call it you want to bring on the conversation and convert it. It actually is really nice to control the parallels to get more controlled via the audio in your podcast indeed so that's it for hardware let's move on a software. So now already recorder podcasts in his lots of great professional applications out -- they can do with -- when that we use for this week in tech indignation. Is Adobe audition. Now the problem with that is it's a little bit pricey it's 299 dollars -- does -- if a lot of my especially for the home hobbyists. So that but there is a free thirty day trial so if you're instant possibly spending that much money are you want to get professional application. That's a little more robust I recommend Dell in the free trial on trying Ozzie who worked for you can't that you want to free solution it's open source runs on windows Mac clinics like DOS and everything else is important and much everything. I've that would be audacity is a great application. Very easy to use. Mystical -- a right now. So here's your -- as you can -- very very basic controls -- right -- play record pause stop forward back. I you'll notice right off the bat that using this application everything is way you'd expected to be is very very small lot learning curve -- So let's go to some of the preferences that you're gonna need to set going to file and then preferences. And the first thing you wanna go to is the audio Ohio tab. This a reset the sound -- to be playing back and also recording from. Obviously this is gonna vary depending on which are currently have installed a machine but the most important thing here is under the recording settings is the channels. The default here is to -- a cent to one which is -- because obviously we're just recording one channel audio no need to record the two channel stereo. The next thing here is the quality -- move onto that. Default sample rate is 44 point one hurts. That's fine want to -- Digisette right there -- to bump this up to 43000. Hertz and that the problem was is once I actually keep up the file I uploaded it in and went to -- which is very public podcasting directory and -- flash player just -- really screwed up with the -- is playing fast and is playing slow so keep it a standard 44 point one it's the most compatible while those on the industry -- it yet it's developed -- and flash based players -- is also very important. Default simple -- we're gonna -- are here to sixteen bit -- need for some overkill there. And -- everything else you could mislead the same. Now for the file formats tab order want to do here is the on compressed export format. What we want to set is the waves -- this is wave. Microsoft sixteen bit PC and this is important because we want obviously record isn't impressed -- do we want to keep the source files intact we don't want -- could do any compression at this point -- so this is what we're gonna set it to. In the end the last setting is for the MP3 export okay now this is the bit rate you don't want to export your MP3 S and uses the lame open source engine which is a great. Including engine. But you don't want to do a 128. Kill bits that's too high that's what you would normally do for something like you know obviously -- are obvious CDC Alpert music CDs. But you can drop this down to 64 and I've even seen some down to a 56 kill bits for us standard podcast. But important to remember here -- is this is all of personal taste is well because you know on Diggnation podcast who puts them some nice music -- we'd like to bump up a little bit higher we go to 112 -- good listener just a little bit better quality. But I play with it. -- changed its indifference is because when you do the export you're gonna obviously with different. -- is gonna very in the different file sizes as well so if you create a large file it might -- in -- cost you more money more people love the way as a people downloaded Jessica transfer more by its information so for this example here we'll go ahead choose 64 it kill bits per second bit rate and then choose okay."

" It's not lets you have that the basic familiarity of audacity now it's time to -- your recording levels. Although likes the sound cards. Even locations -- it's all gonna sound different so. You really want to take get a trial and error approach it ahead of time so let's take a look at the -- again you'll see. It's it's measured indeed beard or or decimals. And what -- do is take a few minutes of talking to the microphone and you'll see it yet you see you start to fluctuate everything and you notice like. When you start getting into like that the negative -- you to zeroed GB ranges. If you're gonna distorts going to say it's gonna sound really really bad so so they keep in mind as the good reference is. Between like negative twelve to negative six -- that was a lot of podcasts -- never wants all you come across when we here's my. Popping and crackling when they hit their peaks right and so that's definitely I mean they're probably not in the right range exactly. I'm one area things -- want to do is export that MP3 and put it on my candidate and the playback device like an MP3 player or in her car whenever it's. Really important do you actually get a real world. Listening environment of what it's actually gonna sound like bands do this we're recording an album this is it's the same idea -- open and a card and see your house sands and different -- Also it something really important that you do is take get ten to 22 silence. Sample thank you what to do that later on we're gonna do that's or reduce reduce noise that's more in the post production techniques. But the most important thing. That's every podcaster has to do this. Is have a backup device. Problem is if you have PC especially windows based its gonna crash at some point and at the most in opportune time. So it's really important have MP3 player or you know it -- professional digital recorder yet -- that because you can have an extra line you're going to another device or you can just use -- later exact go to an MP3 quarter loop so I think we cover pretty much other pre production and recording so let's talk about some post production techniques."

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" So now it's time to fine tune your podcast with an audio editor we're gonna stick with audacity it's working well forests. Now there's three basic steps to post production our number one reducing noise never see you normalizing. And number three ultimately is being -- process now is there's three things you can use quite. Quite a bit it's not the first thing reducing noise we to do record ten to 152. Little sample of silence that's right and you're actually gonna use that right now we'll show you how."

" Look the first thing you wanna do is choose a portion of year -- silence here will choose ten to fifteen seconds of it here like this and then go into effect. And then into noise removal. -- what's is like no as a rule there is gonna take you to. Little button here you see horses get noise profile click that button it's actually gonna use that ten to fifteen seconds. Silence as the profile for your noise removal so the second step is to go into here and you're effect in the noise removal again. And then select portions where you want to remove the noise and then you can use a slider bar to increase or decrease. The noise exactly right so the next thing -- is normalizing and normalizing is pretty much a technique we bring all your audio levels up to the same level and if you have buy music from an outside source or sound effects there'd normally going to be obviously at a different level the -- you recorded your own personal voice that right so something's -- have to either come up or go down. So we're gonna do here is that go into the application. In first select the low audio that you want to amplify because you want it gets somewhat of a consistent level across the board so. We'll -- the little audio right here we want to amplify. In the choose effects. Simplify. Now I guess they are set to default amplification but you can adjust this to how you want it's in the end I go ahead in the apply that there. And then select the entire audio clip. And then she is a fact normalize and that all quiet all across the snow is the whole thing is completely -- bridal kind of bring all levels. In sync with each other so it doesn't sound out of whack your and the last thing here is encoding now I've blaming cutter is not bundle with the application that you can download it and install it and I as a plug and lame you could of course is open source MP3 ink toner. We sure that we should you earlier how to select a bit rates from the drop down their seniority have a selected. Very easy to export now are you have to do is going to the file and then export is indeed three you'll -- right out as an MP3 file right now -- a lot of people also use iTunes as -- encode -- it's a different encoding engine also very easy to use all you have to do is go to file. Preferences and then mp3 cutter. And then you can choose. The bit -- you want to encode that. And then only have to do is go down to the WAV file and then right click on it -- choose convert to MP3. It'll just take a minute or so convert that MP3 over and then you'll be good to go with the final output it to be three."

" I'll excellence that's that the basics you're gonna need. -- post production. I'll stick out in advance set up. Kevin that would over its -- this week in tech podcast let's check it out."

" Can you. Behind the scenes at twit this week in tech with those Leo Laporte. Leo this afternoon most complicated tip I'd ever seen in my entire life now is that this is this is just kind -- in a bad way this is actually we just completed their last. Time -- we're gonna do it here in little mini twit off of my gear off. We're in the -- of an old bed and breakfast Victorian building. And I do -- my radio show from here and that's how we started with twit right. We have a lot of equipment we first started doing effect to -- the radio show all I really need is -- really had to begin with is this headset Mike this is a good one president of 500 bucks for -- synthesizer. HMD 25 these though he had dissembled the end by yourself -- did sorry about it and sorry commitment radio stations buy these the engineers typically lasts connections on themselves up. That's what we got unfortunately so for a professional environment you really think that this makes the difference do you have. How -- that much money no you don't and the reason that I use this is because like I use this for radio professional radio show and I don't have to -- the rumor not to worry dot external noise. This is what sportscasters used to when you're talking Roy into the microphones -- your close might. So in you know you have to have headphones anyway and your close like like this it really is better we're actually gonna use these and we do that promotes. My book five more from so we're and you have one graphic has one and so we're gonna have. I'll get to that later when we start doing that we're gonna have these but the radio show I."

" Use this and then I use this this is and I asked the end. Codec they call this this effort from tell us what this -- it's amazing on you really need is that. 164 -- there honesty and my only when -- both channels. And this compresses my audio into AAC. Sends it down the line Los Angeles where they have the same box in the other and decompress it right it does it fast enough they can do live talk radio -- for -- But -- a direct point to point -- interference -- so yes not a lot of bandwidth but it's not about them with its about the equality and civil -- all right so for the radio show he's a headset Mike. This in and I use this compact flash recorder which actually do recommend for pocket that you certainly one of these well yeah for this thing in the show and this is the Miller rants PMD this is a 67 -- 660 which will less expensive. Whole idea is this is -- work. We can get three hours of on compressed WAV wanna bring good quality or if you do MP3. Many hours have Torres thirty hours and it doesn't need three in real time which is nice if that's the whole idea I mean that's why it's so expensive. The other thing is unlike if you you know you could record onto and I river a lot of people do. It'll give you MP3 but on the error for instance you can't adjust the level as you're recording so this is a professional device you can change the levels it has a variety of inputs. Very nice because it has excel Nazi's I like it -- within empowers means you could use good quality mics. Recording into this so this is a few package why do interviews and feel or use this is also -- some -- ipso I think from podcast it's actually this is a smart thing to have I -- this is all I had."

" We started doing twit then I had to patch to you to do twit we you know you guys are on Skype right initially so I would have Skype up on the PC than Mac and Howard. Then this is -- complicated this effort has a mixer small not very fancy mixer so I was able to. Record the Skype and my voice I would actually be what at first it was and this is really stupid and really think about I would be wearing this. Headset for recording and I'm wearing this headset for Skype. As well and I have two microphones on it was crazy -- would hold of them I don't for the questions. Finally I don't was you were somebody -- figured out -- wait a minute you can just use one microphone. And have the output of this patched into the computer oh dole. And so then this feeds the my microphone feeds both the recorder and the computer gadget the -- a recording Skype you can do in software but really. That the key is having him exercise that you could take the output of the computer. And the up with a microphone mix them together and record them. And that's gonna give you the best result is and how much is an excellent round I mean well you get a cheap RadioShack mixer for under a hundred dollars -- not expensive. This is the most expensive the microphone is probably the most expensive thing you'll be buying. If you buy compact flash recorder that's that these are four -- microphones for 500 dollars. -- probably get away with it 200 on microphone but a lot of people are trying to use an. -- remember podcast quality. The standards are well -- it really depends on what you want to be doing -- you can absolutely record right into an -- river there are probably several thousand podcast made that point. You can take a step -- spend forty bucks on this as it electronics DSP its I recommend getting US BI not complete digital again and I -- julianna. And and that makes a big difference I mean there's a conversion in here from your analog voice rightist did you military is the computer. I think these give you good result and I think these -- a good enough to do podcasts and -- pretty close to professional quality we. What happens don't wanna podcasters and I'm guilty of this. Is he can't get into it it's like any hobby you start spending money on upgrading -- right -- podcasters have better sounds and that's much better sense of ups and I do and I'm doing a radio show. For millions of people in a in a major market. So that people were kind gone nuts in a way they don't have to speaking of which. Whether things that we bought. That that really has both helped and hurt me is this this is a great -- this is a real -- yes this is a mixer that pros would use in the field as -- say whether things and this scares me because as someone does know how to work something should scare you it scares me and -- the radio thirty years. That all of these are very complex but it's the idea is simple. That you have a variety of inputs and its -- frame inputs coming in here. And they're controlled each one left and right is controlled by this these are so these are individual stereo pots -- other. Sixteen channels total left and then I can get more channels out of it quite separate and left in the right. And so you mix them like this so -- that does that and it goes into some you know recorder or. Some of the device to record you know we -- and doing great here's a few minutes ago in I was always had Mozilla reminds when they go through -- coming in here okay this is the this is the Skype because. Patrick and Robert and Steve Gibson were on Skype so this is this guy. Coming into here now this is it where you get tricky with sports and why mixing a good -- does make a big difference. For instance he needs to hear you guys right on the Skype. It's but I can't feed him back his own audio -- of -- feedback right so what I'm doing his keys being Fed not by the mix -- if I tell them that he would get feedback when he's being Fed by what's called an offset this for -- buses on these. These are the -- these things at the art style of styles and levels is each of my local need him. Hawks one which I'm on here -- want to turn up for everybody but him got children I -- what's called mix minus which is the mix minus him gadget -- you voice feedback so he's only getting the local people that you get us there is not getting Skype found otherwise -- the best -- when you have a caller questions you put that on another line that's another line and then he can and again I'll feed that. Over hawks won him -- that everybody can hear it in here through the headphones. And and and that's it that's exactly the key on that and that's why you get a little complicated this also has equalizer is on the channels. Actually -- this is a Mackey on its Mac is very well known for its equalizer is a good equalizer is good Mike preempt. This is a nice little board. The real key on this board in particular is -- who -- can you can overdrive and -- very easily so. I runs in general things were lower. Now here's the secret sauce that really makes this -- super cool to normally an analog output of report -- in fact that's exactly what's going. Through this wire into this recorder -- still user corner. That's a backup though CAPTCHA for a compact flash for back just in case you have just here pay some horrible happens and has many times I've got a second recording. But this is also a digital mixer and that's what makes six hours -- on the back here he's a firewire card and I'll show you this. It's pretty cool -- here well it ought to Sharia you have to get a close up later but. There's a firewire card coming here's a firewire cable and that plugs into. The PC over here until what this firewire cable sending me he's every track individually sixteen tracks coming out as well as a mixed."

" And then I'm using a multi track recorder in this case I'm using Adobe audition. Which allows me to record each track individually so we did a -- channel recording today so these are if I go back here. These are the individual tracks and see there's Leo. There's Kevin there's Prager and their Skype these are the individual tracks. Now there I can play -- is a mix or can go into individual tracks and edit them. The nice thing is separating these tracks out as you is you can see that some of these real low. I can go through each of them do noise reduction -- up -- costs or something like that come out and out that's not and I could process it and that Nellie if as a progression time. But just like recording a record having the individual was a separate track is. Is the way you get a better quality production I still have that's the -- down if anything goes wrong and you pull out their power right turn here and friend sometimes when you get that twist. Yeah you'll know what I'm in using a multi tracked because -- take me -- yeah because it. -- there's a real sound problem on here. I can take me awhile to clean and -- what about the more he comes in over the phone I guess now that's normally you use a phone interface of people buying again or interface -- a radio stations use as we've very expensive. I discovered. The feature of this."

" I -- DN codec that I didn't know. If you could and I don't know if it's even intentional but if you call it's it's a tester I asked him -- memorized in life is a phone lines well. If you call in on the IS TN number that this number is. It will put you through on this and I can put this through the mixer boxes or so that's how we're hearing tomorrow can actually isn't very good phone interface. Most people this is an expensive five to 7000 dollars -- this."

" This is always hitting radio shows in Los Angeles. But there are -- faces you can buy that could be very expensive proposition a good phone interface where we put calls on the radio calls on the screen savers. That's it was going it was again your phone interface and that interfaces into a mixer the screen savers. Essentially you know ray -- or him mark is our sound guys we're working on boards bigger -- this but the same idea you know because there isn't it so there is a smaller version there's -- home with you sure this was not that expensive this without the wire. Wi-Fi -- Firewire he's about a hundred bucks is not horribly expensive then you're not gonna get that digital connection with this and there -- digital -- for about thirteen hundred dollars you can get this that's -- horrible -- In fact really that big expense for us because there's eight of us is. It's three grant for these microphones -- get me 500 dollar microphones. But. So and so the -- we got eight microphones and got incidental cables we've got this we've got a separate PC and I did buy a high end PC a record this. -- you know it's it's a raptor hard drive very fast 10000 RPM harder. And Athlon FX 64 because. This recording this is recording sixteen tracks is working very very -- So you know it could've tried it on a laptop. In theory you can record is on a laptop but I don't want to the -- sort of a little shuttle wrestler can carry it you know I'm got that this is actually kind of -- show has a carrying case. Even that even the monitor has some. Kind of had a carrying channel carrying -- so when you come to the twit live broadcast you'll see of lugging all this stuff and we actually got it settles a lot better than outlook there are multiple huge National Journal I was it was going to be that are the G five and I really didn't want to bring that. So they give you could put ads to cough drop here yeah now this is what pros use and I got effort for radio show. In fact I'm thinking of getting them for the live broadcast. All this does is is an intermittent switches the silent intermittent switch so what I'm talking if I want to cough I press this and amused me. Makes no noise no click. It's expensive it's fifty dollars and that's why because it's very it's a silent switch to -- go I'm back on the air so it's all radio stations have a what's called a cost but. So that you can cough and the release it without any sound. I'll probably get more of these for the broadcast -- that if you you don't want to have a couple one or whatever they have other they have the opposite to where you pressed talk. And that may actually be a better solution because. I have a feeling that. There are times when you were just you know most the time you want to sound the president talked. We'll see if we need -- I don't -- This is one other thing that I bought that you also you don't really need but it's really great we use Adobe audition is they're soft right. Trent -- suffer Q base life these are all multi track recording solutions but they're midi focused. Adobe audition was based on the old. Radio show radio station editing program cooler approach every radio station country's cool edit pro I used it a very proficient -- it. Adobe bought it and it is a."

" Multi track recorder so it can record to sixteen tracks as a lot of nice features built in compression. Noise reduction -- of -- that attracts your instinct sequence -- visit is -- it's about yes it currency after these 300 dollars not cheap as it's I think it's. If you do a lot editing as I have no harm was always podcast site I -- time work when it. -- Written so it's very easy to do that. And and now I can playback as we -- so I mean this is this is it transport and makes it very easy. To edit but it's also really mostly designed for the in the recording environments and can easily start -- literally it's just connected by USB but it also as a foot pedal which is -- and -- So that's pretty much did you also are good pair of headphones. For editing and I owe you for these. From nine average -- Adobe. Arrange these for me this is these are pioneer headphones they they do dolby headphone which you know get -- states. You couldn't -- we we got faster and have now and I haven't yet what sizes -- wireless and and that's really handy because I can. I can move all around -- editing or talking and working when you guys. So I'm gonna do that -- fact sometimes a listen to the podcast well. Germany announced its its. It's infrared so awful to have folks are -- they don't signal and I can I can do this in the podcast. And doing some other work for us taking show notes there's this is really nice not to have wires and you must know what time wearing these they're very comfortable I don't it's funny because they don't take your business around it almost in her stare at it but. I really like this very cool."

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" Okay -- Leo has that you get an amazing set it's a little it's a little advanced for the average home user you hardcore but it it works for him right so okay we've we've essentially -- hadn't produced. Your podcast number need to get it online so we're -- you get pressing you have to do is you have to upload your MP3."

" File to your server okay so we're assuming you have like a blog or some type of web hosting -- service out there and upload gated online. But most importantly check with here service provider -- offering you that the space of find out how much how many gigabytes of transfer to give you per month -- that is if you go over this. If your podcast becomes popular on the iTunes music store is very easy to go over this allotted bandwidth you get charged with overs p.'s movie hundreds even thousands of dollars per month you can really get straight out -- can really it's good to be careful with that. So once you've done that I -- up with a file and we're even some examples with blogs because blogs is pretty much -- most common ways two to publish a podcast. Most of the new blogs are like the type pads but the word press is of the world. They support podcasting by default okay so all you have to do is create a new blog entry so I'll show you what we did here initially. When we first got Diggnation going this is Diggnation dot type pad I common was our initial set up we -- first launching the service and you can notice here you see all the different audio and video injuries that we had blog entries that we had prior podcasts so. The last what you see here is episode number nine audio. So you can see here at the subject line was actually the episode number so in the subject when creating new blog post a direct an episode numbers euros or nine audio -- description that was description the podcast and then put a direct link -- issue -- in an eight H -- wink. To the actual file on the server okay and essentially now that this that type pad houses built in has built in functionality that's all that you have to do because what's gonna happen behind. Behind the scenes is once you link to this file and post that blog post to the blog. It'll see that in -- it will all the of the -- appropriate enclosures so there's podcast friendly okay so what happens now is you have to find out what you're URL is that you want to give you what your feed your alias you want to give it of the world to subscribe to your podcasts -- that well. Typically on a lot is blogs applications they happen in the right hand navigation you'll see there are a little RSS button. That's that is the feed that you want to actually I'd give out to people."

" But awaited finding is -- we -- have on the page here seeking go under view and then page source. And then -- the top and Firefox yet isn't Firefox red top of the screen here you'll see the RSS feed we're go ahead it's RSS stock X. ML or legal heading copy in -- stats and now we have. The raw RSS feed. That has all those enclosures so what an enclosure is basically is is just a bit -- code. That wraps around. That MP3 file with a little tag. That lets different applications out there -- they used -- submitted a new new podcasts -- as a gets updated programs like ipodder -- will look at that feed looking for a new entry when it -- a new -- with that new enclosure you'll start downloading it right to your computer okay so that's automatically being done -- word press all of these new blogging services if your blog provider doesn't support today is a good chance it will be supported in the near -- yeah that's really -- on like -- once iTunes launch there podcasts manage it really changed everything -- did. -- So what we're gonna do is sign up for a feedburner account it's completely free. You put in that you are all that you just I copied and pasted in in -- Add that as a new a feed into feedburner because that's gonna take that an initial source Steve you've had in the reform added to give you a brand new feed. So we can see here under the tab optimize once you've set that up you can go into the these smart cast out here on the left hand side. And this smart kansas' for podcasting and iTunes. Settings is gonna set up front so right so this is gonna give you that new feed that you need -- tunes in for everybody else -- So we can see -- says create podcasting closures from links to any audio or video files as saying that any time you post a piece of audio link to your blog or any time you post a video -- so we do video versions of Diggnation as well. As a big cast so anytime it sees that within your blog is going to wrap that with that special enclosure that's need to try to see this area of course you -- audio and video links. Or you can separate them out into audio or just video if you want to separate feeds. So we're gonna choose our include iTunes podcasting elements because we want to make this an iTunes compatible feed. And you're gonna select the category. That -- content falls and you can see that iTunes has several different categories you can choose from -- whether it's like business comedy is educational. Just choose ours here is technology listless where the technology. Select that and that's gonna give us a subsidy categories there were issues computer systems to general computing podcast. Yeah underneath that is just ask for the podcast image location so if you've ever been on. And on iTunes podcast directory. You'll see there under the Diggnation podcast we have our album artwork. Okay in the way that we got that up there is iTunes doesn't ask for any that from you when you're submitting it it's actually all done through your feet. So you can see here is a location to your server aware that a JPEG Israel resides in your server so go ahead and take some time look at the the form adding that is requires far as the pixel dimensions for that -- you wanna create. I create are working you do in Photoshop terror wherever you want up what is your server and give it the URL right here because that's was gonna go actually display on the iTunes music store and good good artwork too is. Also makes a difference for podcast to people just. You know fighting through iTunes and -- click on -- are done actually before because when you go to the director you don't really see a whole lot of information about what the podcast is exactly so if you have like catchy album artwork -- really sets you apart from this that it takes some time we're creating that. I the next thing here's the podcast description. This is the description is gonna show via iTunes music store as well so it takes some time here I explain exactly what your podcast is what you're into you what you gonna be talking about. I and the next thing is the key words so this is important when they're doing searches with in the iTunes podcast directory for certain keywords of their just one who I'd learn about needing. I would never created need her podcast with somebody did you put those keywords in here and and search for them as well. And and the author -- email address you can put in here and it'll have that information as far as a word emu U within feed. And then you put copyright information the bottom and in the podcast automation to put your name and there's a podcast out there because kind of cool when you're looking to -- different iTunes that -- actually see your name is the author and it's well. And then now once that's what once that's all done until all this information you click on activate it once you do that is gonna create that new feed for you give you the URL. Then you have the feedburner you're else a year are example for our RFD burning for Diggnation. It's feeds that feedburner dot com slash Diggnation and that's that URL that finally you -- that's been re format it from your original type pad post. Into the special magical like iTunes into C that you need served for their proprietary system. So now you go into iTunes and this is the actual podcast directory so on the latest version of iTunes the easiest way to get there is to click on the under source click on podcasts. And then click on down here in the core the podcast rectory. It takes into the directory and then right in the dead set -- say publish a podcast. You click on that button it's gonna ask you. Very simply just for a RSS feed of your new podcast and copy and paste that feedburner feed your -- there. Choose that the next by the submitted to the site. You'll have to have a dot Mac account which is are not a dummy account but you have to have an account within. The iTunes music store to -- if you count. -- it's very easy to create new account it's it's free. I submit that -- it'll take probably about 24 hours predicted index actually added. It's so it's searchable within the iTunes. The directory our podcast rectory. But once it's done that you'll see here are from your album artwork up there. Everything will be properly displayed and you'll start being range and has people start to -- your podcast to increase the ranking get more Dallas it's a lot of fun it's just that easy but fever is really the key to properly form adding it. Correctly at least right now for the iTunes music store."

" Excellent well we've that we've showed you had to produce and ultimately upload your podcasts were actually really -- and I did a podcast that you create so hangovers. System dot org and dad post an arm and -- forums and let us know where we really like to see and and listen to the tab new tab podcast that are out there definitely. -- York I'm Kevin Rose is telling time."

" privilege never once heard about podcasting the ability create your online radio show and distributed to anyone in the world -- on this -- of lawyers say the basics of podcasting. From free to post production and we are just sit down with Leo Laporte from this week in tech and talk about his advanced set up again -- I'm Kevin Rose welcome -- system."

" It was important to remember about podcasting is it to be as advancers basic is you want to make it in advance me like multiple Mike's multiple guest. But what they -- that a little bit let's start up with the basics right so for the basic podcast there's two components that need. Number one need at PC or -- or Mac and then the second component that you need is you microphone. And it now it's synching unlike videos audio is far less taxing two years to your PC or Mac whatever. And the initial investment can be much much lower yeah that's actually one that very common mistakes that the first time podcast is make as a blot my brand new. -- lot of fans America generous lot of heat lot of -- a lot of that I edit outside ambient noise picked up on the microphone so even if you have a decent machine already can probably just use that right now but microphones are completely different story. I'd you can spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars on a microphone. But you can also go very cheaper outspent thirty dollars we suggest using -- Logitech desktop -- who works really well. Now for the road where like is it works really well because it's US be. And it's is driver such as plug and play -- you ready to go that's that's like cheap solution exactly net. That went thinks they're really remembers that microphones are your best investment tears to your podcast so. We really suggest spending at least fifty dollars get. Something like the sure microphone. It said S and fifty it's really nice fifty bucks it's worth the investment. Get it because a podcast is really gonna benefit from that triggers a look at Mikey -- it is a little bit. A better sound card most motherboard so that integrated audio we heard some problems with some noise little -- kissing on some of the cheaper integrated sound cards so -- here's what from creative obviously very popular -- the audio G is just an external version the XPG and there's a few of the cards or at least two in the show and it's right it especially like I said if -- road warrior -- podcasting -- laptop. You can get PC card solution created makes one and -- to NS works really well and it's not that. Not that expensive either let's go for if you're going to conventions and things like that he does have that better sound card write your laptop -- it. Another thing that's it's really important to the podcast that actually essential to the podcast is headphones headphones are. You -- you. You really need headphones number one. Because you want to hear every single little nuance that's going on during shows so you need something with a really good because you response. And basically also want to get something that goes over your ears so it's kinda cancels out the outside new -- and if you like iPod like ear buds are gonna deathly -- it that it could not."

" So those are gonna -- you like what as a as a -- both like thirty dollars that is very -- just get something like this and with a decent frequency response threats and the next thing -- you have to think about a little -- little bit later on is it for -- like multiple -- have multiple Mike Hsu -- want something like this -- which is -- basic -- and this gives -- multiple -- in the back here's a -- Here's all the different X or imports. And -- to bring up the different sales or bring them down depending on what you're doing if you have sound effects he won a role in our we have a telephone call it you want to bring on the conversation and convert it. It actually is really nice to control the parallels to get more controlled via the audio in your podcast indeed so that's it for hardware let's move on a software. So now already recorder podcasts in his lots of great professional applications out -- they can do with -- when that we use for this week in tech indignation. Is Adobe audition. Now the problem with that is it's a little bit pricey it's 299 dollars -- does -- if a lot of my especially for the home hobbyists. So that but there is a free thirty day trial so if you're instant possibly spending that much money are you want to get professional application. That's a little more robust I recommend Dell in the free trial on trying Ozzie who worked for you can't that you want to free solution it's open source runs on windows Mac clinics like DOS and everything else is important and much everything. I've that would be audacity is a great application. Very easy to use. Mystical -- a right now. So here's your -- as you can -- very very basic controls -- right -- play record pause stop forward back. I you'll notice right off the bat that using this application everything is way you'd expected to be is very very small lot learning curve -- So let's go to some of the preferences that you're gonna need to set going to file and then preferences. And the first thing you wanna go to is the audio Ohio tab. This a reset the sound -- to be playing back and also recording from. Obviously this is gonna vary depending on which are currently have installed a machine but the most important thing here is under the recording settings is the channels. The default here is to -- a cent to one which is -- because obviously we're just recording one channel audio no need to record the two channel stereo. The next thing here is the quality -- move onto that. Default sample rate is 44 point one hurts. That's fine want to -- Digisette right there -- to bump this up to 43000. Hertz and that the problem was is once I actually keep up the file I uploaded it in and went to -- which is very public podcasting directory and -- flash player just -- really screwed up with the -- is playing fast and is playing slow so keep it a standard 44 point one it's the most compatible while those on the industry -- it yet it's developed -- and flash based players -- is also very important. Default simple -- we're gonna -- are here to sixteen bit -- need for some overkill there. And -- everything else you could mislead the same. Now for the file formats tab order want to do here is the on compressed export format. What we want to set is the waves -- this is wave. Microsoft sixteen bit PC and this is important because we want obviously record isn't impressed -- do we want to keep the source files intact we don't want -- could do any compression at this point -- so this is what we're gonna set it to. In the end the last setting is for the MP3 export okay now this is the bit rate you don't want to export your MP3 S and uses the lame open source engine which is a great. Including engine. But you don't want to do a 128. Kill bits that's too high that's what you would normally do for something like you know obviously -- are obvious CDC Alpert music CDs. But you can drop this down to 64 and I've even seen some down to a 56 kill bits for us standard podcast. But important to remember here -- is this is all of personal taste is well because you know on Diggnation podcast who puts them some nice music -- we'd like to bump up a little bit higher we go to 112 -- good listener just a little bit better quality. But I play with it. -- changed its indifference is because when you do the export you're gonna obviously with different. -- is gonna very in the different file sizes as well so if you create a large file it might -- in -- cost you more money more people love the way as a people downloaded Jessica transfer more by its information so for this example here we'll go ahead choose 64 it kill bits per second bit rate and then choose okay."

" It's not lets you have that the basic familiarity of audacity now it's time to -- your recording levels. Although likes the sound cards. Even locations -- it's all gonna sound different so. You really want to take get a trial and error approach it ahead of time so let's take a look at the -- again you'll see. It's it's measured indeed beard or or decimals. And what -- do is take a few minutes of talking to the microphone and you'll see it yet you see you start to fluctuate everything and you notice like. When you start getting into like that the negative -- you to zeroed GB ranges. If you're gonna distorts going to say it's gonna sound really really bad so so they keep in mind as the good reference is. Between like negative twelve to negative six -- that was a lot of podcasts -- never wants all you come across when we here's my. Popping and crackling when they hit their peaks right and so that's definitely I mean they're probably not in the right range exactly. I'm one area things -- want to do is export that MP3 and put it on my candidate and the playback device like an MP3 player or in her car whenever it's. Really important do you actually get a real world. Listening environment of what it's actually gonna sound like bands do this we're recording an album this is it's the same idea -- open and a card and see your house sands and different -- Also it something really important that you do is take get ten to 22 silence. Sample thank you what to do that later on we're gonna do that's or reduce reduce noise that's more in the post production techniques. But the most important thing. That's every podcaster has to do this. Is have a backup device. Problem is if you have PC especially windows based its gonna crash at some point and at the most in opportune time. So it's really important have MP3 player or you know it -- professional digital recorder yet -- that because you can have an extra line you're going to another device or you can just use -- later exact go to an MP3 quarter loop so I think we cover pretty much other pre production and recording so let's talk about some post production techniques."

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" So now it's time to fine tune your podcast with an audio editor we're gonna stick with audacity it's working well forests. Now there's three basic steps to post production our number one reducing noise never see you normalizing. And number three ultimately is being -- process now is there's three things you can use quite. Quite a bit it's not the first thing reducing noise we to do record ten to 152. Little sample of silence that's right and you're actually gonna use that right now we'll show you how."

" Look the first thing you wanna do is choose a portion of year -- silence here will choose ten to fifteen seconds of it here like this and then go into effect. And then into noise removal. -- what's is like no as a rule there is gonna take you to. Little button here you see horses get noise profile click that button it's actually gonna use that ten to fifteen seconds. Silence as the profile for your noise removal so the second step is to go into here and you're effect in the noise removal again. And then select portions where you want to remove the noise and then you can use a slider bar to increase or decrease. The noise exactly right so the next thing -- is normalizing and normalizing is pretty much a technique we bring all your audio levels up to the same level and if you have buy music from an outside source or sound effects there'd normally going to be obviously at a different level the -- you recorded your own personal voice that right so something's -- have to either come up or go down. So we're gonna do here is that go into the application. In first select the low audio that you want to amplify because you want it gets somewhat of a consistent level across the board so. We'll -- the little audio right here we want to amplify. In the choose effects. Simplify. Now I guess they are set to default amplification but you can adjust this to how you want it's in the end I go ahead in the apply that there. And then select the entire audio clip. And then she is a fact normalize and that all quiet all across the snow is the whole thing is completely -- bridal kind of bring all levels. In sync with each other so it doesn't sound out of whack your and the last thing here is encoding now I've blaming cutter is not bundle with the application that you can download it and install it and I as a plug and lame you could of course is open source MP3 ink toner. We sure that we should you earlier how to select a bit rates from the drop down their seniority have a selected. Very easy to export now are you have to do is going to the file and then export is indeed three you'll -- right out as an MP3 file right now -- a lot of people also use iTunes as -- encode -- it's a different encoding engine also very easy to use all you have to do is go to file. Preferences and then mp3 cutter. And then you can choose. The bit -- you want to encode that. And then only have to do is go down to the WAV file and then right click on it -- choose convert to MP3. It'll just take a minute or so convert that MP3 over and then you'll be good to go with the final output it to be three."

" I'll excellence that's that the basics you're gonna need. -- post production. I'll stick out in advance set up. Kevin that would over its -- this week in tech podcast let's check it out."

" Can you. Behind the scenes at twit this week in tech with those Leo Laporte. Leo this afternoon most complicated tip I'd ever seen in my entire life now is that this is this is just kind -- in a bad way this is actually we just completed their last. Time -- we're gonna do it here in little mini twit off of my gear off. We're in the -- of an old bed and breakfast Victorian building. And I do -- my radio show from here and that's how we started with twit right. We have a lot of equipment we first started doing effect to -- the radio show all I really need is -- really had to begin with is this headset Mike this is a good one president of 500 bucks for -- synthesizer. HMD 25 these though he had dissembled the end by yourself -- did sorry about it and sorry commitment radio stations buy these the engineers typically lasts connections on themselves up. That's what we got unfortunately so for a professional environment you really think that this makes the difference do you have. How -- that much money no you don't and the reason that I use this is because like I use this for radio professional radio show and I don't have to -- the rumor not to worry dot external noise. This is what sportscasters used to when you're talking Roy into the microphones -- your close might. So in you know you have to have headphones anyway and your close like like this it really is better we're actually gonna use these and we do that promotes. My book five more from so we're and you have one graphic has one and so we're gonna have. I'll get to that later when we start doing that we're gonna have these but the radio show I."

" Use this and then I use this this is and I asked the end. Codec they call this this effort from tell us what this -- it's amazing on you really need is that. 164 -- there honesty and my only when -- both channels. And this compresses my audio into AAC. Sends it down the line Los Angeles where they have the same box in the other and decompress it right it does it fast enough they can do live talk radio -- for -- But -- a direct point to point -- interference -- so yes not a lot of bandwidth but it's not about them with its about the equality and civil -- all right so for the radio show he's a headset Mike. This in and I use this compact flash recorder which actually do recommend for pocket that you certainly one of these well yeah for this thing in the show and this is the Miller rants PMD this is a 67 -- 660 which will less expensive. Whole idea is this is -- work. We can get three hours of on compressed WAV wanna bring good quality or if you do MP3. Many hours have Torres thirty hours and it doesn't need three in real time which is nice if that's the whole idea I mean that's why it's so expensive. The other thing is unlike if you you know you could record onto and I river a lot of people do. It'll give you MP3 but on the error for instance you can't adjust the level as you're recording so this is a professional device you can change the levels it has a variety of inputs. Very nice because it has excel Nazi's I like it -- within empowers means you could use good quality mics. Recording into this so this is a few package why do interviews and feel or use this is also -- some -- ipso I think from podcast it's actually this is a smart thing to have I -- this is all I had."

" We started doing twit then I had to patch to you to do twit we you know you guys are on Skype right initially so I would have Skype up on the PC than Mac and Howard. Then this is -- complicated this effort has a mixer small not very fancy mixer so I was able to. Record the Skype and my voice I would actually be what at first it was and this is really stupid and really think about I would be wearing this. Headset for recording and I'm wearing this headset for Skype. As well and I have two microphones on it was crazy -- would hold of them I don't for the questions. Finally I don't was you were somebody -- figured out -- wait a minute you can just use one microphone. And have the output of this patched into the computer oh dole. And so then this feeds the my microphone feeds both the recorder and the computer gadget the -- a recording Skype you can do in software but really. That the key is having him exercise that you could take the output of the computer. And the up with a microphone mix them together and record them. And that's gonna give you the best result is and how much is an excellent round I mean well you get a cheap RadioShack mixer for under a hundred dollars -- not expensive. This is the most expensive the microphone is probably the most expensive thing you'll be buying. If you buy compact flash recorder that's that these are four -- microphones for 500 dollars. -- probably get away with it 200 on microphone but a lot of people are trying to use an. -- remember podcast quality. The standards are well -- it really depends on what you want to be doing -- you can absolutely record right into an -- river there are probably several thousand podcast made that point. You can take a step -- spend forty bucks on this as it electronics DSP its I recommend getting US BI not complete digital again and I -- julianna. And and that makes a big difference I mean there's a conversion in here from your analog voice rightist did you military is the computer. I think these give you good result and I think these -- a good enough to do podcasts and -- pretty close to professional quality we. What happens don't wanna podcasters and I'm guilty of this. Is he can't get into it it's like any hobby you start spending money on upgrading -- right -- podcasters have better sounds and that's much better sense of ups and I do and I'm doing a radio show. For millions of people in a in a major market. So that people were kind gone nuts in a way they don't have to speaking of which. Whether things that we bought. That that really has both helped and hurt me is this this is a great -- this is a real -- yes this is a mixer that pros would use in the field as -- say whether things and this scares me because as someone does know how to work something should scare you it scares me and -- the radio thirty years. That all of these are very complex but it's the idea is simple. That you have a variety of inputs and its -- frame inputs coming in here. And they're controlled each one left and right is controlled by this these are so these are individual stereo pots -- other. Sixteen channels total left and then I can get more channels out of it quite separate and left in the right. And so you mix them like this so -- that does that and it goes into some you know recorder or. Some of the device to record you know we -- and doing great here's a few minutes ago in I was always had Mozilla reminds when they go through -- coming in here okay this is the this is the Skype because. Patrick and Robert and Steve Gibson were on Skype so this is this guy. Coming into here now this is it where you get tricky with sports and why mixing a good -- does make a big difference. For instance he needs to hear you guys right on the Skype. It's but I can't feed him back his own audio -- of -- feedback right so what I'm doing his keys being Fed not by the mix -- if I tell them that he would get feedback when he's being Fed by what's called an offset this for -- buses on these. These are the -- these things at the art style of styles and levels is each of my local need him. Hawks one which I'm on here -- want to turn up for everybody but him got children I -- what's called mix minus which is the mix minus him gadget -- you voice feedback so he's only getting the local people that you get us there is not getting Skype found otherwise -- the best -- when you have a caller questions you put that on another line that's another line and then he can and again I'll feed that. Over hawks won him -- that everybody can hear it in here through the headphones. And and and that's it that's exactly the key on that and that's why you get a little complicated this also has equalizer is on the channels. Actually -- this is a Mackey on its Mac is very well known for its equalizer is a good equalizer is good Mike preempt. This is a nice little board. The real key on this board in particular is -- who -- can you can overdrive and -- very easily so. I runs in general things were lower. Now here's the secret sauce that really makes this -- super cool to normally an analog output of report -- in fact that's exactly what's going. Through this wire into this recorder -- still user corner. That's a backup though CAPTCHA for a compact flash for back just in case you have just here pay some horrible happens and has many times I've got a second recording. But this is also a digital mixer and that's what makes six hours -- on the back here he's a firewire card and I'll show you this. It's pretty cool -- here well it ought to Sharia you have to get a close up later but. There's a firewire card coming here's a firewire cable and that plugs into. The PC over here until what this firewire cable sending me he's every track individually sixteen tracks coming out as well as a mixed."

" And then I'm using a multi track recorder in this case I'm using Adobe audition. Which allows me to record each track individually so we did a -- channel recording today so these are if I go back here. These are the individual tracks and see there's Leo. There's Kevin there's Prager and their Skype these are the individual tracks. Now there I can play -- is a mix or can go into individual tracks and edit them. The nice thing is separating these tracks out as you is you can see that some of these real low. I can go through each of them do noise reduction -- up -- costs or something like that come out and out that's not and I could process it and that Nellie if as a progression time. But just like recording a record having the individual was a separate track is. Is the way you get a better quality production I still have that's the -- down if anything goes wrong and you pull out their power right turn here and friend sometimes when you get that twist. Yeah you'll know what I'm in using a multi tracked because -- take me -- yeah because it. -- there's a real sound problem on here. I can take me awhile to clean and -- what about the more he comes in over the phone I guess now that's normally you use a phone interface of people buying again or interface -- a radio stations use as we've very expensive. I discovered. The feature of this."

" I -- DN codec that I didn't know. If you could and I don't know if it's even intentional but if you call it's it's a tester I asked him -- memorized in life is a phone lines well. If you call in on the IS TN number that this number is. It will put you through on this and I can put this through the mixer boxes or so that's how we're hearing tomorrow can actually isn't very good phone interface. Most people this is an expensive five to 7000 dollars -- this."

" This is always hitting radio shows in Los Angeles. But there are -- faces you can buy that could be very expensive proposition a good phone interface where we put calls on the radio calls on the screen savers. That's it was going it was again your phone interface and that interfaces into a mixer the screen savers. Essentially you know ray -- or him mark is our sound guys we're working on boards bigger -- this but the same idea you know because there isn't it so there is a smaller version there's -- home with you sure this was not that expensive this without the wire. Wi-Fi -- Firewire he's about a hundred bucks is not horribly expensive then you're not gonna get that digital connection with this and there -- digital -- for about thirteen hundred dollars you can get this that's -- horrible -- In fact really that big expense for us because there's eight of us is. It's three grant for these microphones -- get me 500 dollar microphones. But. So and so the -- we got eight microphones and got incidental cables we've got this we've got a separate PC and I did buy a high end PC a record this. -- you know it's it's a raptor hard drive very fast 10000 RPM harder. And Athlon FX 64 because. This recording this is recording sixteen tracks is working very very -- So you know it could've tried it on a laptop. In theory you can record is on a laptop but I don't want to the -- sort of a little shuttle wrestler can carry it you know I'm got that this is actually kind of -- show has a carrying case. Even that even the monitor has some. Kind of had a carrying channel carrying -- so when you come to the twit live broadcast you'll see of lugging all this stuff and we actually got it settles a lot better than outlook there are multiple huge National Journal I was it was going to be that are the G five and I really didn't want to bring that. So they give you could put ads to cough drop here yeah now this is what pros use and I got effort for radio show. In fact I'm thinking of getting them for the live broadcast. All this does is is an intermittent switches the silent intermittent switch so what I'm talking if I want to cough I press this and amused me. Makes no noise no click. It's expensive it's fifty dollars and that's why because it's very it's a silent switch to -- go I'm back on the air so it's all radio stations have a what's called a cost but. So that you can cough and the release it without any sound. I'll probably get more of these for the broadcast -- that if you you don't want to have a couple one or whatever they have other they have the opposite to where you pressed talk. And that may actually be a better solution because. I have a feeling that. There are times when you were just you know most the time you want to sound the president talked. We'll see if we need -- I don't -- This is one other thing that I bought that you also you don't really need but it's really great we use Adobe audition is they're soft right. Trent -- suffer Q base life these are all multi track recording solutions but they're midi focused. Adobe audition was based on the old. Radio show radio station editing program cooler approach every radio station country's cool edit pro I used it a very proficient -- it. Adobe bought it and it is a."

" Multi track recorder so it can record to sixteen tracks as a lot of nice features built in compression. Noise reduction -- of -- that attracts your instinct sequence -- visit is -- it's about yes it currency after these 300 dollars not cheap as it's I think it's. If you do a lot editing as I have no harm was always podcast site I -- time work when it. -- Written so it's very easy to do that. And and now I can playback as we -- so I mean this is this is it transport and makes it very easy. To edit but it's also really mostly designed for the in the recording environments and can easily start -- literally it's just connected by USB but it also as a foot pedal which is -- and -- So that's pretty much did you also are good pair of headphones. For editing and I owe you for these. From nine average -- Adobe. Arrange these for me this is these are pioneer headphones they they do dolby headphone which you know get -- states. You couldn't -- we we got faster and have now and I haven't yet what sizes -- wireless and and that's really handy because I can. I can move all around -- editing or talking and working when you guys. So I'm gonna do that -- fact sometimes a listen to the podcast well. Germany announced its its. It's infrared so awful to have folks are -- they don't signal and I can I can do this in the podcast. And doing some other work for us taking show notes there's this is really nice not to have wires and you must know what time wearing these they're very comfortable I don't it's funny because they don't take your business around it almost in her stare at it but. I really like this very cool."

" It's set up that sit behind the scenes -- twit this week in tech twit dot TV the number one podcast. In the world okay. Why are they -- thank you."

" Okay -- Leo has that you get an amazing set it's a little it's a little advanced for the average home user you hardcore but it it works for him right so okay we've we've essentially -- hadn't produced. Your podcast number need to get it online so we're -- you get pressing you have to do is you have to upload your MP3."

" File to your server okay so we're assuming you have like a blog or some type of web hosting -- service out there and upload gated online. But most importantly check with here service provider -- offering you that the space of find out how much how many gigabytes of transfer to give you per month -- that is if you go over this. If your podcast becomes popular on the iTunes music store is very easy to go over this allotted bandwidth you get charged with overs p.'s movie hundreds even thousands of dollars per month you can really get straight out -- can really it's good to be careful with that. So once you've done that I -- up with a file and we're even some examples with blogs because blogs is pretty much -- most common ways two to publish a podcast. Most of the new blogs are like the type pads but the word press is of the world. They support podcasting by default okay so all you have to do is create a new blog entry so I'll show you what we did here initially. When we first got Diggnation going this is Diggnation dot type pad I common was our initial set up we -- first launching the service and you can notice here you see all the different audio and video injuries that we had blog entries that we had prior podcasts so. The last what you see here is episode number nine audio. So you can see here at the subject line was actually the episode number so in the subject when creating new blog post a direct an episode numbers euros or nine audio -- description that was description the podcast and then put a direct link -- issue -- in an eight H -- wink. To the actual file on the server okay and essentially now that this that type pad houses built in has built in functionality that's all that you have to do because what's gonna happen behind. Behind the scenes is once you link to this file and post that blog post to the blog. It'll see that in -- it will all the of the -- appropriate enclosures so there's podcast friendly okay so what happens now is you have to find out what you're URL is that you want to give you what your feed your alias you want to give it of the world to subscribe to your podcasts -- that well. Typically on a lot is blogs applications they happen in the right hand navigation you'll see there are a little RSS button. That's that is the feed that you want to actually I'd give out to people."

" But awaited finding is -- we -- have on the page here seeking go under view and then page source. And then -- the top and Firefox yet isn't Firefox red top of the screen here you'll see the RSS feed we're go ahead it's RSS stock X. ML or legal heading copy in -- stats and now we have. The raw RSS feed. That has all those enclosures so what an enclosure is basically is is just a bit -- code. That wraps around. That MP3 file with a little tag. That lets different applications out there -- they used -- submitted a new new podcasts -- as a gets updated programs like ipodder -- will look at that feed looking for a new entry when it -- a new -- with that new enclosure you'll start downloading it right to your computer okay so that's automatically being done -- word press all of these new blogging services if your blog provider doesn't support today is a good chance it will be supported in the near -- yeah that's really -- on like -- once iTunes launch there podcasts manage it really changed everything -- did. -- So what we're gonna do is sign up for a feedburner account it's completely free. You put in that you are all that you just I copied and pasted in in -- Add that as a new a feed into feedburner because that's gonna take that an initial source Steve you've had in the reform added to give you a brand new feed. So we can see here under the tab optimize once you've set that up you can go into the these smart cast out here on the left hand side. And this smart kansas' for podcasting and iTunes. Settings is gonna set up front so right so this is gonna give you that new feed that you need -- tunes in for everybody else -- So we can see -- says create podcasting closures from links to any audio or video files as saying that any time you post a piece of audio link to your blog or any time you post a video -- so we do video versions of Diggnation as well. As a big cast so anytime it sees that within your blog is going to wrap that with that special enclosure that's need to try to see this area of course you -- audio and video links. Or you can separate them out into audio or just video if you want to separate feeds. So we're gonna choose our include iTunes podcasting elements because we want to make this an iTunes compatible feed. And you're gonna select the category. That -- content falls and you can see that iTunes has several different categories you can choose from -- whether it's like business comedy is educational. Just choose ours here is technology listless where the technology. Select that and that's gonna give us a subsidy categories there were issues computer systems to general computing podcast. Yeah underneath that is just ask for the podcast image location so if you've ever been on. And on iTunes podcast directory. You'll see there under the Diggnation podcast we have our album artwork. Okay in the way that we got that up there is iTunes doesn't ask for any that from you when you're submitting it it's actually all done through your feet. So you can see here is a location to your server aware that a JPEG Israel resides in your server so go ahead and take some time look at the the form adding that is requires far as the pixel dimensions for that -- you wanna create. I create are working you do in Photoshop terror wherever you want up what is your server and give it the URL right here because that's was gonna go actually display on the iTunes music store and good good artwork too is. Also makes a difference for podcast to people just. You know fighting through iTunes and -- click on -- are done actually before because when you go to the director you don't really see a whole lot of information about what the podcast is exactly so if you have like catchy album artwork -- really sets you apart from this that it takes some time we're creating that. I the next thing here's the podcast description. This is the description is gonna show via iTunes music store as well so it takes some time here I explain exactly what your podcast is what you're into you what you gonna be talking about. I and the next thing is the key words so this is important when they're doing searches with in the iTunes podcast directory for certain keywords of their just one who I'd learn about needing. I would never created need her podcast with somebody did you put those keywords in here and and search for them as well. And and the author -- email address you can put in here and it'll have that information as far as a word emu U within feed. And then you put copyright information the bottom and in the podcast automation to put your name and there's a podcast out there because kind of cool when you're looking to -- different iTunes that -- actually see your name is the author and it's well. And then now once that's what once that's all done until all this information you click on activate it once you do that is gonna create that new feed for you give you the URL. Then you have the feedburner you're else a year are example for our RFD burning for Diggnation. It's feeds that feedburner dot com slash Diggnation and that's that URL that finally you -- that's been re format it from your original type pad post. Into the special magical like iTunes into C that you need served for their proprietary system. So now you go into iTunes and this is the actual podcast directory so on the latest version of iTunes the easiest way to get there is to click on the under source click on podcasts. And then click on down here in the core the podcast rectory. It takes into the directory and then right in the dead set -- say publish a podcast. You click on that button it's gonna ask you. Very simply just for a RSS feed of your new podcast and copy and paste that feedburner feed your -- there. Choose that the next by the submitted to the site. You'll have to have a dot Mac account which is are not a dummy account but you have to have an account within. The iTunes music store to -- if you count. -- it's very easy to create new account it's it's free. I submit that -- it'll take probably about 24 hours predicted index actually added. It's so it's searchable within the iTunes. The directory our podcast rectory. But once it's done that you'll see here are from your album artwork up there. Everything will be properly displayed and you'll start being range and has people start to -- your podcast to increase the ranking get more Dallas it's a lot of fun it's just that easy but fever is really the key to properly form adding it. Correctly at least right now for the iTunes music store."

" Excellent well we've that we've showed you had to produce and ultimately upload your podcasts were actually really -- and I did a podcast that you create so hangovers. System dot org and dad post an arm and -- forums and let us know where we really like to see and and listen to the tab new tab podcast that are out there definitely. -- York I'm Kevin Rose is telling time."