Looking to set up podcast on our website.

[HCLC Media Crew]

Hey all,
We have been recording sermons for awhile, but have not posted them online yet. I am developing a podcast page and have fooled around a bit with podcast generator. I am looking for a program that can be integrated with our website and itunes in place of podcast generator. you can only edit and customize podcast generator if you can read and write html. and i can't. if anyone has any tips or programs that they use on their site please share. thanks in advance.

God Bless,
Nick + Holy Cross Lutheran Church Media Crew

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

Check out www.libsyn.com. Easy and cheap!

[brochris]

Does your church use some kind of content management system for your website? If so, what? It may have a good plugin that will do podcasting for free.

[sempei13]

Tell me if this works. Get a free dropbox.com account. Put your mp3's in the public folder. Right click on them and select "Copy public link" and put that link in your RSS. I just copied the link from an old Tech, No Babel show. You should be able to download it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7974570/TNB050703.mp3 That should be bandwidth and storage for up to 2 gigs for free.

Paul

[HCLC Media Crew]

looking for something that's easy and free. also i forgot to mention that we use frontpage for our website. I was thinking of maybe just using some kind of flash mp3 player and embeding one for each week on our page, any thoughts?

[brochris]

You could do that, but it wouldn't really be a podcast at that point. It would simply be embedded mp3 files that a person can listen to if they visit your website. A podcast does that and steps it up a notch: it has an rss feed (code) associated with it so that content is delivered to those who subscribe to it.

I've never used it, but it looks like this podcast generator might be the kind of thing you're looking for. It's not dependent on a content management system, so you could use it with your current frontpage setup. I think the only requirement for this podcast generator is that PHP be installed on your server (which also is free).

But if you're just trying to make your sermons available online via your website, what you described would would just fine.