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What is Podcasting

Podcasting means distributing media files (typically, audio files) over the Internet using syndication.

How to podcast?

RSS format allows attaching multimedia files to an item in an RSS feed. A file is associated with an item in the feed. Unlike email attachments, podcasting feeds carry only URLs of files, the actual data is not embedded into the feed.

To attach a multimedia file to an item in the RSS Feed use the RSS enclosure XML element. Here is a sample of enclosure tag:

<item>
	<title>Radio Show Episode 1</title>
	<enclosure url="http://yourwebsite.com/podcasts/Episode1.mp3"
length="132212" type="audio/mp3" />
	<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>