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About podcasts

A podcast is an audio or video program that can be downloaded over the Internet. A podcast file can be:

  • An audio file that contains a song or a series of songs, a spoken interview, and so on. It can also contain artwork.

  • A video file.

The longer the audio and video are, the larger the file size is. Your podcast can be any length as long as you have enough storage space where you website is published.

iWeb has a Podcast template you can use to showcase your podcasts on your website. You first create the podcast in GarageBand (or another application), and then add it as a new entry (an episode) to your podcast in iWeb. You can also add podcasts to your blog. When visitors go to your website, they can download individual podcast episodes.

Your website visitors can also subscribe to your podcasts from your website. When visitors subscribe to a podcast, the latest episode is downloaded to iTunes on their computer the next time iTunes checks for new episodes.

You can also submit podcasts you create to the iTunes Store so that anyone who visits the store can download and subscribe to your podcast without visiting your website.

Although you can add media files to any webpage, they become podcasts—with download and subscribe features—only when you add them to a Podcast template. You can add only one podcast per template.

Important:Before posting anything to your website, make sure you own the copyright and other rights to what you or others are posting, or that you obtained all necessary permissions.


Related Topics

Adding a podcast created in GarageBand

Adding a podcast without using GarageBand

Submitting a podcast to the iTunes Store

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