Podcasting How To FAQ

Podbean podcast directory is a Social Subscribing Podcast directory. Tags of a podcast are added by subscribers. If there is no subscribers to your podcast in Podbean directory. Your podcast will show no tag in Podbean directory listing. Nevertheless, in Podcast detail page, podcast owner’s tags will be shown.

You can add a image-link to your sidebar as the "Subscribe with iTunes" button.

Step 1: Log into your Podbean dashboard.

Step 2: If you want to show the "Subscribe with iTunes" link with a image, you may upload an image first. For example, we upload an image called "subscribe-with-itunes.gif" in demo account.

Step 3: Click "Layout"->"Sidebar Links" tab in your Podbean dashboard, then click "Create Link" button.

Step 4: In "Create Link" page, fill the URI with "itpc://myusername.podbean.com/feed/" . Please replace "myusername" with your actual Podbean user name. Fill link name, short description, such as, "Subscribe with iTunes" . Select the image from the drop down menu.

Step 5: Click "Add Link" button.

If you check your site again, you will see a single "Subscribe with iTunes" button on your sidebar.

Please make sure your video is encoded in one of Podbean Player supported video formats. Currently following video formats are supported in the Podbean player: flv, and H.264 based mp4, m4v, mov, avi . Please notice, flv format is not supported by iTunes. If you want to make your video appeared in both iTunes and the Podbean player, please encode it with H.264 based mp4 or m4v format.

If you registered your domain in godaddy.com, you can set up own domain mapping following the steps hereafter:

Step 1. Log into your GoDaddy account, click "Domains" to show your domains. Then click the domain name that you want to set the own domain mapping. You will see a "Domain Manager" page as hereafter. Then click the "Total DNS control and MX record" link.

Step 2. If you want to set up domain mapping, such as, use http://www.mydomain.com for your Podbean podcast site. In "CNAMES(Aliases)" section, you click the "Edit" button at the right side of the "www" record line.

Step 3. Edit the "CNAME" record to map "www" to your podbean site, e.g. http://username.podbean.com. Set "alias name" as "www", host name as "username.podbean.com"

If you want to set a domain map, such as, http://podcast.mydomain.com map to your Podbean podcast site, you then need to add a CNAME record by clicking "Add new CNAME record" button.

In the "create new CNAME" page, enter the subdomain that you want to use. Such as, if you want to use http://podcast.mydomain.com map to your Podbean podcast site http://username.podbean.com , set "alias name" as "podcast", host name as "username.podbean.com"

First log into your Podbean dashboard, then click the "Settings" tab and "Feed/iTunes" subtab. Fill the author name in the "Author/Owner" feild.

The quickest way to log into your Podbean account dashboard is to click the “Publish a podcast” tab on Podbean.com home page.

You can follow the steps hereafter to move your podcast to Podbean:
Step 1.  Select a Podbean plan that fit for you need and sign up a Podbean account. 
Step 2.  Import your current podcast posts into your Podbean account. See our FAQ about how to import at here.
Step 3.  Upload your audios and videos into your Podbean account and edit the imported posts to link to the respective audios and videos.
Step 4.  Make announcement in your current podcast site and new episodes about your podcast migration.  If possible, keep this announcement for a month so,  this probably will get most of current active users informed.  Please notice that your new Podbean podcast feed url is http://yourusername.podbean.com/feed/ .
Step 5. If your current podcast hosting service support "new feed" tag and 302 http redirection.  Please check our FAQ about how to move feed in iTunes at here.

The online Flash player only supports mp3 format audio files. More over, the Flash player is sensitive to the sample rate. Please encode your audio with sample rate at at 11.025 22.05 or 44.1 kHz.

Steps to add Paypal Donation Button to your sidebar:

Step 1. Activate the "Paypal Donate Widget" in "Widget Management" by clicking "Settings"->"Widget" tabs in your Podbean dashboard . Then click the "Activate" link at the right side of the Paypal Donate Widget line.

Step 2. Getting into "Sidebar Arrangement" page by clicking "Layout"->"Sidebar Widget" tabs. Then, drag and drop the Paypal Donate Widget to your prefered sidebar position.

Step 3. Add your Paypal acccount email address to the widget by clicking the "window button" at the right side of the widget. You will get a pop up window in which you can fill your Paypal email address.

Step 4. Finally, DO NOT FORGET to click the "Save Changes" button at the right bottom of the page to save all your hard work.

To set your web site URL in your Podcast feed and iTunes, you can click “Settings”->”Feed/iTuens”. Then fill your web site URL in “Link URL in RSS2″ field.