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How to configure sidebar widget for my Podbean podcast site?

Posted by faq on 21st September 2009

You may configure the sidebar widget by following the steps hereafter:

1. Click "Layout"->"Sidebar Widget" tab in your Podbean dashboard.

2. Move the widget to the sidebar position as you like. Click the "configure button" of the widget (at the right side of the widget, looks like a small book).

configure sidebar widget 1

 

3. A window will be pop up. You can fill the related configuration fields of the widget. Such as, fill your Google adsense id in the "Google Adsense" widget.

fill google adsense id in the widget

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How to rate my podcast episode ?

Posted by faq on 17th September 2009

The rating only can be done on the single episode page — not on your Podbean podcast site home page. When you click the rating on the home page, it will lead you to the episode page to let you rate it.

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How to add a single “Subscribe with iTunes” button on Podcast sidebar?

Posted by faq on 11th May 2009

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.
Add Links

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.
add-links -2

Step 5: Click "Add Link" button.

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

 

 

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How to make my video appear in the embed player?

Posted by faq on 10th April 2009

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.

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How to set up Podbean Podcast own domain mapping in GoDaddy?

Posted by faq on 7th April 2009

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.

GoDaddy Domain Manager

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.

set up own domain for Podbean podcast site

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"

own domain podbean podcast how to

 

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.

podbean podcast own domain how to

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"

podbean own domain set up

 

 

 

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How to set author/artist/owner name in Podcast feed and iTunes?

Posted by faq on 2nd April 2009

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

add author name in iTunes

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How to log into Podbean dashboard ?

Posted by faq on 2nd April 2009

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

Log into Podbean dashboard

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How to move my podcast to Podbean ?

Posted by faq on 26th March 2009

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.

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Why my audio can not be played in online player, but play fine after download?

Posted by faq on 1st March 2009

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.

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How to use FileZilla upload files

Posted by faq on 19th February 2009

Step 1. After you launch FileZilla you should get such screen:

Filezilla

As you can see, the interface is not too complicated. On the left you can see your local folder tree (teal frame) and selected folder content (green frame).

To configure FileZilla to connect to your Podbean FTP account please click on the small computer icon on top left (red arrow).

 

Step 2. A Site Manager window will show up.

Click on New Site button and enter a name for the new connection settings, e.g. “Podbean FTP”. (It can be really anything, it’s just so that you know where it takes you to ).

FileZilla Site Manager

 

Step 3. Now you need to fill in the connection details (marked with red arrows).

Please get your FTP server name in your Podbean “Account” page, enter it into the host name field, such as, ftp3.podbean.com
Your Server Type is FTP. Logontype is Normal.

Username and password are the ones provided in your Podbean “Account” page. Please DO NOT Copy&Paste your FTP user name and password. The Copy&Paste might include extra empty space and cause FTP login failure. Please type your FTP user name and password into FileZilla.

If you’re not using your computer or you share your pc with other people and you don’t want them to be able to connect to your site you can select the option not to remember your password (underlined with blue).

Once you’re sure the settings are correct click Save and Exit button.

ftp host info

 

Step 4. Now After you returned to main program window click small arrow next to the computer icon top left to see drop-down menu. Pick your website from the list to connect.

FTP connect

 

Step 5. Connection established. Now find files you want to upload on your local machine (left-side folder tree and content).

Simply select the files and drag-and-drop them to the right of the screen (your ftp folder).

Or you can right click the file name and choose “upload” from the pop up menu.

FTP Upload

You will notice the transfer progress on the bottom of the screen. If all is OK, your FileZilla window will show the files you uploaded on the right.

Step 6. If the FTP connection broken before finishing the file uploading. Rather than uploading the whole file again, FileZilla allows you to resume uploading from last broken point. To resume the uploading, just try to upload the file again and choose the “Resume” option in the pop up window.

resume ftp

 

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