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What is Podcasting?

Wed, Aug 31, 2005; by Bill Coppinger.

Definitions of Podcasting on the Web:

• This is a term that derives its name from the iPod™ manufactured by Apple Incorporated. The iPod is an electronic gizmo that allows downloading files in .mp3 or AAC (Apple iTunes™ format). To date, the primary file download use has been for music for the iPod to be used as a mobile music player. The iPod is manufactured in various hard disk capacities that predict the download of other, larger-sized files, such as video, in the future. The name "podcast" is no longer specifically related to the iPod but to any software and hardware combination that permits the downloading.
  

• "Podcasting" is making audio files (most commonly in MP3 format) available online in a way that allows software to automatically download the files for listening at the user's convenience.

[Source: Google]

Podcasting

Podcasting is a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s). It became popular in late 2004, largely due to automatic downloading of audio onto portable players or personal computers.

• Listen to our Introductory podcast right here

• This is the 'RSS' feed to subscribe to our podcasts.

• If you want us to podcast your music, you can contact us at audiostuff@centralrangesllen.org.au

Apple iTunes is one source of 'Podcasts'

Podcasting is distinct from other types of online media delivery because of its subscription model, which uses a feed (such as RSS or Atom) to deliver an enclosed file. Podcasting enables independent producers to create self-published, syndicated "radio shows," and gives broadcast radio programs a new distribution method.

Listeners may subscribe to feeds using "podcatching" software (a type of aggregator), which periodically checks for and downloads new content automatically. Some podcatching software is also able to synchronise (copy) podcasts to portable music players. Any digital audio player or computer with audio-playing software can play podcasts. The same technique can deliver video files, and by 2005 some aggregators could play video as well as audio.

"Podcasting" is a portmanteau word that combines the words "broadcasting" and "iPod." The term can be misleading since neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod or any portable music player. For that reason, various writers have suggested reinterpreting the letters POD to create "backronyms" such as "Personal On-Demand."[1] The term "Radio Me" was coined by Peter Day of the BBC for the same reason. A little-used alternate is "blogcasting", although this usually only refers to recordings that are based on, or similar in format to, blogs.

[Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.]

Aggregators

If you would llike to scan, download and listen to some Podcasts, try some of the "PodCast Catchers" or aggregators.

Apple Itunes iPodder Lemon

PodSafe Music and finding other PodCasts.

If you are

1. really in to your own music and want a way to get it heard without record labels or distributors, or
2. you are looking for new, fresh, independent artists, from all genres, and want to try making your own podcast,

then PODSAFE MUSIC is for you!