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Create your own podcast

Step 4:

Podcast-recording software


Technophobes can rely on programs such as iPodcast Creator to facilitate the podcasting process

Technophobes can rely on programs such as iPodcast Creator to facilitate the podcasting process.

You can use a program as simple as Windows' Sound Recorder to capture your podcast, but something a bit more sophisticated would be better.

One popular podcast tool is Audacity, an open-source audio editor and recorder. It's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and it includes a number of useful features and plug-ins.

If you want something even more podcast-friendly, check out Industrial Audio Software's aptly named iPodcast Producer. This start-to-finish solution lets you record and edit podcasts, create Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, and upload the finished product via a built-in FTP client. It's priced at $249.95, but at press time the company was set to unveil a more consumer-oriented version, iPodcast Creator, for $89.95.

Tip
If you decide to use Audacity, download and install the LAME MP3 encoder so that you can save your recordings as MP3 files, the preferred format for podcasts.



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