Podcasting How To FAQ

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.

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

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you sell digital goods in Podbean eStore, after a user purchased your digital goods, he/she will receive an email with a download URL. This download URL will be expired in 48 hours.

If you want to enable additional downloads for an order after the download URL is expired,  you can do it easily in your Podbean dashboard by clicking “eStore” ->”Purchase Log” , then click the “Details” link of the related transaction.  You then can click the “Enable additional downloads” button to get a new download URL. This new download URL will be valid in next 48 hours.

If you want to embed your podcast into other blog sites, such as, wordpress.com, blogspot.com etc, you may need to get URLs of your uploaded audios and videos.

To get the URLs of your uploaded audios and videos, you can click “Upload” tab in your Podbean dashborad to get into Media Manager Page. On the media manager page, you can click a file name to get a pop up window which shows the URL of this file.