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RSS Podcasting - It Is Really Simple, as Its' Name Suggests
Rss is a family of web distribution formats to create a feed .It is simply the subscriptions to your program. Channels are created by using pod casting. Without an Rss feed you will be forcing your listeners to visit your website .By using RSS feed you can easily monitor your listeners. Once a listener has subscribed to your feed, your programs will come to them automatically. Read more.This article covers
What is RSS?
How Does RSS Work?
Popularity of Free RSS Feeds
One of the requirements for producing a podcast, RSS tags, is, for many new podcasters the least understood aspect of creating and publishing their own audio programs for Internet distribution. In every article on "how to podcast" RSS feeds are mentioned, but what exactly is RSS?
RSS is a family of web distribution formats. Written in XML, RSS files make it possible to create a feed. Podcast RSS files are, to put it simply, a person's subscription to your program. The RSS file provide summaries of web content linked to full versions and in the case of a podcast RSS database, a means for an aggregator or podcast "catcher" to automatically detect and download new programs on a given site. Basically, by using RSS podcasting "channels" are created.
Without an RSS feed listeners to your podcast will be forced to visit your website on a regular basis and to individually download new programs as you add them to your directory.
With an RSS feed, this process of monitoring and downloading becomes painlessly automatic. Once a listener has subscribed to your feed, your programs will come to them automatically.
How Does RSS Work?
Really an RSS feed is nothing more than a text file that has the extension .rss. The file itself can be named anything the author likes. An RSS feed must include specific XML tags. (For a podcast RSS tags will include such specifics as length of recording and file size.) There are multiple tutorials online for individuals to learn how to write their own RSS feeds in a simple text editor like the Windows Notepad. It is also not uncommon to locate a working RSS feed, copy it to a text file, and simply modify if for your specific use - syndicating your own podcast, for example.
There are also software packages available to help you to author your feed and to update it each time you add a new episode to your podcast.
If you will be recording multiple episodes, daily or weekly, software to manage your feed may be easier in the long run that writing the RSS file by hand.
Any time you put an RSS file in place you should validate your code to make sure the file is functioning appropriately. There are numerous free RSS feeds validator sites online including rss.scripting.com and validator.w3.org.
