No matter how you podcast, it needs to be hosted somewhere. Good podcast hosting includes web hosting and media hosting that can grow with your podcast. I'll suggest your best options to consider. Web hosting for your website The most important hosting you need is for your website.
This is typically called “web hosting.” You need to have your own website for your podcast and own the domain so that no matter what service you use, your audience can always get your content from the same place. Bad: WordPress.com, Blogger, etc. Third-party services often provide a free or nearly free “turn-key” solution. This allows you to quickly create an account and have a website within minutes. But you lose a lot of power, features, and control with these services.
These aren't ideal podcast hosting options. Pros.
Easy setup. Limited flexibility. Free. Domain options available (small annual fee) Cons. Lack of total control. Can't install your own plugins. Difficult for podcasting.
Difficult to leave. Requires FeedBurner to add podcasting. No premium podcast options Better: LibSyn website Not all third-party hosts are bad. Not only offers great media hosting with stats, but they also provide a very capable and easy to use website service at no extra charge.
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However, I don't let that corrupt my perspective and I don't recommend only affiliates. I would have to say this was probably one of my favorite podcasts.
You covered everything someone needs to know not only about hosting podcasting, but also hosting a website–and explained it in an very simple, straightforward way. This should be the very FIRST podcast that anyone getting into this should listen to. It covers everything you need to know about hosting. And, Daniel, I did not know you had affiliate links to Bluehost. I would have used yours! Perhaps a suggestion – what about putting some kind of support widget on the front page at the right that lists out all your affiliate links (or by topic) with the title “Help support the show with these affiliate links”.
Then you have “Web hosting” then “Podcast hosting”, etc. If someone clicks on that, they are taken to those pages on your website. I think a modest widget would not be too direct, and it would have helped me find your affiliate link faster. As your site stands now, I couldn’t find this easily unless I go back to a podcast and re-listen to it.
(Or perhaps I’m missing something on your website?) By the way, I’m setting up my friend’s website. I would love to show a list of posts like you have on the front page of yours. Do you use some kind of plugin for that?
Tony from Cincy now living in Singapore! This is something we talked about in “.” In short, I think transcriptions are better than bullet-point lists. But transcriptions can also contain a lot of unnecessary “fluff” that wastes space and the readers’ time.
Transcribed conversations are also difficult to read, but interviews may be easier. I prefer to write my shownotes almost as a blog post before I record. This helps me clarify my thoughts. Then I only glance at my headlines or key sentences to keep me on track as I speak into my podcast. Podbean is actually having problems right now. ? I do not recommend Podbean.
You could maybe use them for just media hosting, but do not let them power your RSS feed or put you in iTunes. If you use Podbean as an all-in-one service, you forfeit ownership and control of your podcast. They lock you in and make it very difficult to leave, and it’s very expensive to leave and keep your iTunes subscribers (and lose others) if you let them run your RSS feed. Most of the “so many options” out there aren’t worth considering. My top recommendation is a self-hosted WordPress website on or and use LibSyn (with promo code “noodle”) for your media hosting.
Anything else will be painful in the long run. Hi Daniel What about hosting your podcast on Blog Talk Radio and using that RSS to submit to iTunes? I am guessing it is because BTR owns the RSS feed? But isn’t that the same as Libsyn ie don’t they own the feed eg yourname.libsyn.com?
I am new to podcasting (I’m a print journalist of 15 years) and seeking clarification on the pros and cons of hosting using Feedburner, Libsyn, Libsyn with Powerpress plugin, or Blubrry with Powerpress? I have a blog website (Optimize Press 2.0 hosted on Hostgator. I want the podcast on iTunes and to embed it into blog posts and be able to add text and pics to the posts. And if I want to leave the host, to be able to do so easily without iTunes stuffing up. What Fi you recommend? Thanks ? Katrina. The major difference between using BlogTalkRadio’s RSS feed or LibSyn’s is that LibSyn allows you to leave and take your subscribers with you.
BTR doesn’t offer such freedom. LibSyn also gives you more power over your RSS feed. BTR doesn’t give you nearly as much. The optimal setup, in my opinion, is to use LibSyn to host just your media files. Then you link to them with WordPress blog posts, using the PowerPress plugin, and send the podcast-only feed (usually /feed/podcast) to iTunes and other podcast directories. If you follow this, then you own the feed URL and can point that anywhere you want.
The only reason I would recommend FeedBurner now is if you can’t use self-hosted WordPress. — Sent from Mailbox for iPad. Podcasting question: I am looking to launch a few different podcasts but for sure one January 1st. It is my first. I have a background in video production so the actual production of the show or graphics is not a concern, but I am 100% new to the world of RSS. I am concerned about hosting with Libsyn since it locks me into a minimum $5/mo fee per show forever (or as long as I want my show on iTunes). For some of my show ideas, I do not for see them “taking off” and have considered having them on my hosting company either from the beginning or after a year or so.
My thought is that if I do 6 months of regular episodes and decide to pull the plug, I don’t want to have 3, 4, 5 shows at a minimum $5/mo because it will really start to add up down the road. Please explain this if I am wrong but here’s what I am tentatively planning: WordPress PowerPress plugin to “own” the RSS feed. Powerpress the RSS for SEO benefits Host on Libsyn so that I can handle the initial downloads that might spike NY shared server space on 1and1 hosting Host on Libsyn because they can submit to 3 iTunes categories (I don’t think Power press can do this?) Long term, I can move the audio over to my hosting company and iTunes won’t notice any difference right?
Using Libsyn for the RSS feed means I am locked into paying for their service forever right? This sounds like some stuff we should really get into with a consulting session.
But I’ll give you the basics here. In your case, I suggest that you use PowerPress’s RSS feed. When you do that, it doesn’t matter where you host your media, because you can change the download URLs without breaking your RSS feed. You would set your one to three iTunes categories inside PowerPress. LibSyn would host just your media. Use promo code “noodle” to try any plan for free for at least one full month. Yes, even if you don’t upload, you would have to pay $5/month for them to continue hosting.
If you decide to retire a show, you could copy your media to archive.org, MediaFire, or somewhere else, change the download URLs in PowerPress, and then cancel that show on LibSyn. Let me know if you’d like to setup a consulting session to help you with this in more detail.
Daniel, I don’t know if someone else has already passed this on to you, but Archive.org has fewer limitations than you seem to think. I have an account at the Internet Archive, and I am able to edit any item I have uploaded, replace files, upload multiple bandwidth versions of a file to allow the system to choose for the listener their best option, and I can request an item be deleted with a simple e-mail to I host a podcast that I produce there right now, having moved their archives (over 100 episodes) to the Archive earlier this year, and I’ve been very pleased with them. We don’t use WordPress, so the embed player (HTML5) has been very useful as well. Just thought I would let you know that you DO have control over your files uploaded to the Archive.
The simplest way to find all of them is to visit and click the “uploads” link on the far right. I’m having trouble with my feed and would love advice from anyone. I’ve got a WordPress website and am hosting my files on internet archive. When I create a post of a new episode, I link to the file saved on my Archive.org account. They play from my website just fine but I don’t think my feedburner is recognizing that I have any media to pull from my website. When I test my RSS feed in iTunes, I see all my information and photo displayed correctly but it’s not pulling any audio.
Any ideas where I’m going wrong? Thank in advanced! Hello, I came across your post listing the best podcast hosting sites and noticed that BlastPod by Podcast Blastoff was not included. Admittedly, it would have been hard for you to include as it was in production at the time of the writing.
Blastpod is not just another solution built on wordpress. It was built, from the ground up by podcasters, for podcasters. Every aspect of BlastPod was built with podcasters in mind. Every tool is built to make your podcast website something to be proud of. Well, we are live now and offering Easy Podcast Hosting, a Website Builder (no coding required) with themes and templates to match any brand, as well as a podcast management system that makes uploading a podcast to itunes, stitcher, and your own blastpod site as easy as updating your status and a wide range of tools, statistics and widgets to make your podcast website something you will be proud to display You can view the full range of features and give us your opinion and possibly include us in your next review.
You can find us. Thank you for your reply. While we do consider ourselves the best option out there, we are admittedly not the most established. We are working on setting up a demo account for people to review, and would be happy to give you access if you would like an in depth look at it. But we will continue working to be considered the best hosting solution for podcasters and look forward to more podcasting articles from you. Being new to the industry myself i find great value in your site, especially when it comes to the best equipment to use. Thank you for all that you do and have a good day.
Pingback:. Hello Daniel, thank you for a great episode. I came into podcasting late. I recently took out an account with Podbean. And eventhough I own my own domain, their domain is all over my files’ urls and sometimes my username plus podbean.com (e.g. User.podbean.com) appears on my files’ url feed instead of my own domain. They refuse to take it out and I when I contacted Libsyn to make enquries about whether they do that as well, they apparently do.
This was Libsyn’s response: “ you can use your domain in the url for your RSS feed and the web page we provide, but even with that our url’s would still be used for the media files linked to within the RSS feed. That’s just not the way it works. If you wanted to completely hide any mention of our url’s you’d need to manage your own RSS feed outside of our system.” What I what to know is is this perfectly normal? And if it is should I just continue to stay with Podbean since they are providing me unlimited storage and bandwidth as well as the capacity to have more than one site pages?
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When you’re first getting started with podcasting, one of the first challenges you might run into has to do with hosting your large files. Whether you’re producing an audio podcast or a video podcast, the media files can get large fairly quickly. Of course, you can always use your FTP client and upload the files to a folder on your webserver, and that may actually work for a while.
But in the long run, there are several reasons why hosting your podcast media files on your web server may not be the best solution:. Your web hosting account may have storage limits, which can result in high fees for overage when you store too many large files. Similarly, your web hosting account may have bandwidth limits that you may have never come close to exceeding in the past.
Even one popular episode of your podcast could cause you to hit and exceed these limits when your listeners or viewers download the file. Perhaps more importantly, your web hosting account isn’t usually built for serving large files.
When you have a number of subscribers that automatically download your new episodes when they’re released, you could quickly overload your web server with a number of users downloading large files all at once via iTunes or other “podcatcher” apps. This results in poor download performance for your subscribers, and could even temporarily bring down your website.
There are quite a few ways to solve the problem of where to host podcast files. One simple way is to host your media files at Amazon S3. Why Use Amazon S3 for Your Podcast Files? You’re probably familiar with the idea that Amazon has built a massive cloud infrastructure, known as Amazon Web Services (“AWS”), that it makes available to anyone who might need to use it. Services like Netflix, Dropbox, Pinterest and many others use AWS to host reliable, scalable web services, mobile apps, and media storage solutions. At the heart of AWS is a service called “Simple Storage Service” (S3). S3 was one of the early “cloud” technologies when it was launched in 2006, and it has remained a leading solution for situations that call for hosting numerous and/or large media files.
Not only is it reliable (with a 99.9% guaranteed uptime), but it’s ridiculously fast. When a user requests a file stored at Amazon S3, chances are they’ll be able to download it quite a bit faster than if the file had been stored on your web server. Even better: it’s very affordable. There are no monthly fees.
You simply pay for what you use. They don’t charge you for “inbound” transfer (meaning the bandwidth that you use when you upload files to S3). There’s a monthly charge for storage of your files that comes to about 3¢ per gigabyte in the US. For “outbound” transfer (when people download your files from S3), you’ll be charged about 9¢ per gigabyte.
But when you first set up a new account at AWS, you’ll qualify for the “free usage tier” for the first year, which gives you up to 5 GB of storage and up to 15GB of transfer (each month) absolutely free. This makes a great deal even that much more affordable—especially when you’re just getting started and you may not be earning as much from your podcast. Check out all the details on the. How to Quickly & Easily Upload Large Files to Amazon S3 While I’ve provided some written instructions for the entire process (below), you may also prefer to watch this video, where I walk you through the process step by step. The first step is to. (Note: if you already have an Amazon account, you can use the same email address and password. Just keep in mind that it may make sense to separate your business account from your personal one.).
Once you’re logged in,. It’ll be amid the myriad of available cloud services in the AWS package.
Next, you’ll need to create a “bucket.” This is Amazon lingo for “a place to store stuff.”. Amazon provides a web-based interface for uploading and managing your files. I’ve found that it’s a little easier to use a Firefox extension called, which works on Windows, Mac or Linux. Once you’ve got S3Fox installed, you’ll need some API credentials for your AWS account to allow it to have access. Think of these like a username & password, and keep them secure.
You can get them from the section of your AWS account. Once you’re in there, you’ll need to create an Access Key ID & Secret Access Key pair.
Copy & paste your Access Key ID & Secret Access Key pair into S3Fox by clicking “Manage Accounts” and then giving your account a name (only you will see this). You’ll see boxes for the 2 values, which you can paste right in. Once S3Fox has successfully accessed your S3 account, you’ll see the bucket show up on the right-hand side of your screen.
Click on the name of the bucket to get “inside” it. On the left-hand side, you can browse your computer for files, which can then be easily uploaded to the S3 bucket with just a couple of clicks. One More Thing: Make Your Files Publicly Available By default, Amazon assumes that your S3 bucket’s contents should be private. While it’s possible to change the permissions on your files one at a time after you’ve uploaded them, I recommend that you just set a policy on the entire bucket instead. This way, you’ll know that anything you put in that bucket will automatically be available for download by anyone.
(If you need to keep other files protected, just set up another bucket.) Here’s how to add the policy to your S3 bucket:. Visit your by clicking on S3 from the. You should see the names of all of your buckets listed. (If you only have one, then it’ll be a short list!) Click on the white space to the right of your bucket name. This will “select” it, which causes the line it is on to be “highlighted” in a light blue color. Click the “Properties” button on the upper right-hand side of your screen. The “Properties” panel will open on the right-hand side of your screen.
Expand the “Permissions” section and click “Add Bucket Policy”. Copy the policy below and paste it into the box that opens. NOTE: You’ll need to edit the policy so that the portion that reads is replaced with the name of your bucket. Click “Save” on the box, then “Save” in the “Properties” panel.
All your files will now be available publicly! If you run across a problem or a question, don’t hesitate to hit me up by leaving a comment below!
I’ll do my best to answer you! Hey Phil — thanks for the comment!
I’m glad you found the article useful. In fact, the setup your describing is precisely the one we use and recommend (except that we pay $5 for stats that are a bit more useful). It’s actually really simple to transition your setup from self-hosted files to S3. For each episode of your podcast, you’ll want to replace the existing URL that points to the file wherever you’ve been hosting it to the new URL at Amazon S3. You do this by locating the “Podcast Episode” panel below the WordPress editor and clicking the “Modify existing podcast episode” box shown here: You’ll then want to copy the new Amazon S3 URL for your file (if you’re not sure where to find this, see below for a tip) and paste it into the “Media URL” box and then click the “Verify URL” button. The PowerPress plugin will then check to make sure the file is there and will update the parameters related to the file (size, length, etc.).
Once that’s finished, you can just click “Update” on your post and then move on to the next one. From there on out, your RSS feed, the PowerPress player on your website (if you’re using it), and anything connected to your RSS feed will look for the new file location instead of the old one.
Since you have the PowerPress stats hooked up via the plugin, the stats will continue to work as they have been working. (The plugin actually redirects the clicks & downloads off of the Blubrry stats server on the way to your file, regardless of where your media file is actually hosted.) Incidentally, if you’re using the S3 Fox plugin for Firefox (as described in the post and video above), there’s a nifty little tool to easily get the Amazon S3 URL for any file: (Note that this will be the full URL to the file on Amazon’s system, and will ignore any CNAME you may have configured. You’ll want to edit the domain name in the URL if you have set up a custom CNAME for your S3 bucket.) Hope this answers your question! Best wishes for you & your podcast! Hi Mike, First: apologies for the slow response here! I’m not sure how we managed to miss this comment. The RSS feed requires a web script of some sort.
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We use and recommend, which is free and open source software that you can install on a web server. RSS feeds are built in to the WordPress software, but you can optionally use a free WordPress plugin like to provide you with additional control over various aspects of your podcast that will create a better user experience for your subscribers. The complete setup is beyond the scope of a comment here, but we’re considering building some additional content to cover all of this. If that’s of interest to you, please let me know! Hi Rob, Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment!
Amazon S3 is really just the storage and delivery mechanism for the media files themselves, whether audio or video. To charge for a podcast requires some additional tools. We use to power the podcasts we develop, but not to charge money for them. Charging would require the addition of some software to manage user access, authentication, payment, and so forth.
The creators of Blubrry PowerPress have written some material on the various tools that would need to be connected to make this work. Check out on their website for more. I hope this helps!
Contents. 1970s. 1976 – a point-to-point binary transfer protocol. February 1978 – 's becomes the first. BBS access is limited to phone lines until the early 1990s. 1979 – conceived by and at the and. Its primary purpose is to facilitate focused discussion threads within topical categories , but it also allows the transfer of files.
As of 2016 alt.binaries. newsgroups continue to serve files. 1980s Most file sharing in this era was done by modem over landline telephone, at speeds from 300 to 9600 bits per second. Many file systems in use only supported. Computer memory and speed was very limited, with 50 MHz CPUs only being accessible to consumers at the end of the decade. 1981 – – a binary protocol that can be used with or other systems to transfer binary data.
January 1984 – In, the finds that making individual copies of complete television shows for purposes of is. This case would create some interpretative challenges to courts in applying the case to more recent technologies available for use on home computers and over the Internet.
1984 –, an inter- protocol that was widely available prior to IP based, is founded. October 1985 – is standardized in, authored by Postel and Reynolds. FTP allows files to be efficiently uploaded and downloaded from a central server.
1985 – – a minor improvement to. 1986 – – another, which had superior long-distance (high latency) transmission. August 1988 – is created by Jarkko Oikarinen. 1990s FTP, IRC and Usenet were the main vehicles for file sharing in this decade. Data compression technologies for audio and video (like, AAC and MPEG) came into use towards the end of the 1990s.
Copper wire was common with fibre optic cable only becoming available late in the decade. 1990 - Michael Sandrof adds functionality to allowing users to share files. November 1990 – The is formally proposed by and. December 1991 – The chooses an audio codec developed by and his colleagues at with input from and to serve as the MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) ISO/IEC standard. This allows songs on CDs to be converted into small computer files. June 1992 - establishes the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions standards for sending audio and images by email, paving the way for the alt.binaries hierarchy on.
1992 – Software Publishers Association runs an anti-copyright infringement campaign. July 1994 - The released the encoding software as shareware, the first of its kind. September 1995 - The released, the first software mp3 player for Windows.
June 1996 - Mp3 warez group founded. Using connections inside record companies, they rip pre-release music CDs, and make the mp3's available for others to download. Developed a chat client for Windows that can do file transfers up to 2 GBs. 1997 – is founded by five Computer Science students. Early products provide file search and download using the protocol, as well as a multimedia web search engine released in 1998. Scour attracted early attention and support from media industry insiders before declaring bankruptcy in October 2000. April 1997 – audio player is released, including the ability to make playlists, leading to increased use of MP3 files.
May 1997 - launches with file transfer capabilities. August 1997 – is announced at MacWorld, and allows chat, forums, and file transfers. It becomes popular among users. September 1997 - 6.1 includes support for mp3 playback for the first time. November 1997 –. Is founded by and Greg Flores. Initially an FTP search engine, MP3.com becomes a hosting service for unsigned artists.
It serves 4 million audio file downloads per day at its peak and becomes the largest technology in July 1999. The release of My.MP3.com in January 2000, which allowed users to stream their own files, would prompt litigation. In May 2000, would be ruled in favor of the record labels. MP3.com would settle for $200 million and discontinue the service. January 1998 - is released providing easier to use CD-ripping software for creating mp3's on Windows. March 1998 – The, the first portable MP3 player, is launched. July 1998 - released allowing mp3 playback and CD-ripping on Macintosh computers.
In 2000, bought this program, and used it as the basis for. September 1998 – MP3 player is shipped. Its popularity leads the to file a temporary restraining order in October, without success. October 1998 – is unanimously passed by the US Senate.
DMCA provides a 'safe harbor' ensuring that Internet Service Providers cannot be sued for the activities of their users. November 1998 – is created.
Initially an FTP search engine, the Audiogalaxy Satellite P2P client would reach 1 million downloads in 2001. In May 2002, a suit by the RIAA would force Audiogalaxy to block sharing of illegal songs. In June 2002, Audiogalaxy would settle the suit for an undisclosed amount and make its services opt-in. In September 2002, Audiogalaxy would discontinue P2P services in favor of, a pay streaming service. December 1998 –, the first digital media news site, is launched. February 1999 - China's launches, a chat client with file transfer capability.
June 1999 – was created. Napster let users search across all users' shares. Napster provided a centralized server that indexed the files, and carried out the searches. Individual files, however, remain on the hosts' computers and were transferred directly from peer to peer. November 1999 - The network is created. November 1999 - is launched.
December 1999 - The first lawsuits were filed against Napster. 2000s In computer science terms, modern file sharing begins in the 2000s.
Several file sharing protocols and file formats were introduced, along with nearly a decade in protocol experimentation. Towards the end of the 2000s, BitTorrent became subject to a 'man in the middle' attack in TCP mode – and this has led most file sharing protocols to move to UDP towards the very end of the decade. Client and tracker software in this era was in development as much as the transmission protocols, so the file trading software was not always as reliable as it could have been. 2000. January – My.MP3.com is released by MP3.com. March – Scour Exchange is released as a P2P file exchange service to compete with Napster. In addition to audio files, it also supports sharing of other media as well as software.
March – becomes the first decentralized file sharing network with the release of a network client by and of. Like Napster, users could share large numbers of files at once, and search across the entire network for files. March – (formerly ) Gnutella client released. May – causes My.MP3.com to shut down. 3.0 becomes the first version to include file transfer capability.
June – (originally Slyway.com) launches. Its goal is to provide freedom of speech through a peer-to-peer network which focuses on protecting anonymity. Files are distributed across the computers of Freenet's users. Ian Clarke's paper would become the most-cited computer science paper of 2000. Freenet would become a in 2008. September – client and server software is released by Jed McCaleb, introducing into decentralized file sharing. October – Scour Exchange is shut down as Scour Inc.
Files for bankruptcy in the face of copyright infringement litigation. October – Napster is credited with driving Radiohead's album to the top of the Billboard charts.
December - Peer-to-peer file sharing client 1.8 beta is released, providing users with another way to connect to (later ) networks. 2001. February –. February – Napster peaks at 26.4 million users. March – and the proprietary protocol are released by, and Priit Kasesalu. The Kazaa Media Desktop client came bundled with. Legal action in the Netherlands would force an offshoring of the company, renamed.
In September 2003, the would file suit against private individuals allegedly sharing files via Kazaa. In September 2005, would be ruled against Sharman by the Federal Court of Australia. Sharman's non-compliance would prompt censorship of the program in Australia. In June 2006, the would cause Sharman to settle for $100 million and convert Kazaa to a legal-only file sharing program. April – is released by (later StreamCast), after licensing the protocol. MusicCity had previously operated servers.
Would become a popular FastTrack client, with 4.5 million users, until licensing disputes and a protocol switch in February 2002. In March 2003, the Morpheus client was re-released to operate on Gnutella, using Gnucleus servant as its core. In June 2005, a redesigned Morpheus client would be released.
In June 2006, would be decided against StreamCast. In June 2008, the Morpheus client would become no longer available for download.
April – client is released. July – Napster shuts down due to injunction. Many former Napster users move to OpenNap servers. July – Satellite client reaches 1 million downloads. July 1 – released. Users only upload one or a small number of files at a time, but all peers are forced to seed to other peers from the parts of a file they have received so far. There is usually no way to search for files built into the program itself, so search engine sites had to be established.
Downloads for popular files tend to be quite fast. August – eDonkey network index site founded. It would be taken down by police in March 2004. September - admitted that they had included digital rights management software on 's single, perhaps the first such scheme to be implemented.
October – client is released. By 2007, it would no longer be functional. October - released the first, which would eventually become the most popular portable mp3 player. October - 8 includes the ability to rip CDs to mp3 for the first time. November – is first publicly announced.
November – is created for the and would become the most popular client. 2002.
January – and RIAJ vs Yugen Kaisha Nippon MMO in Tokyo district court, causing File rogue(ファイルローグ) ordered to shut down on April 9. February – The Kazaa protocol switch shuts out Morpheus. May – is released and soon becomes the network's most popular client. May – takes steps to block illegal files due to RIAA lawsuit.
May 27 – service was founded by Christian Schmid. June – Audiogalaxy settles RIAA suit for undisclosed amount, its file sharing becomes limited. June – First release of.
June – released. July – introduced by the creators of implementing protocol. July – (소리바다) was closed on July 11 by District Court South Division. August – is founded by Jon Newton.
Releases OS X 10.2 including the client which includes file transfer capabilities. September – Audiogalaxy discontinues P2P services. October – file sharing program released.
October – torrent index goes online. November – protocol is announced. 2003. January – torrent index founded by Gary Fung. As of 2008, it serves over 40 million unique searches per month. March – The is published, advocating a business model for the recording industry based on file sharing.
April – torrent index founded. As of 2008, it is the second-largest public torrent tracker in the world. May – is released. It is the first Kazaa client for the Mac OS X platform. May – The is launched by Apple, selling music by individual tracks, with to prevent file sharing.
May 15 - First hearing before House Committee of Government Reform on inadvertent file sharing, Overexposed: The Threats to Privacy & Security on File Sharing Networks. Inadvertent File Sharing was a security concern detailed by researcher at describing how user interface issues contributed to users of inadvertently sharing personal and confidential information over p2p networks. June 17 - Second congressional hearing before Senate Judiciary Committee on inadvertent file sharing The Dark Side of a Bright Idea: Could Personal and National Security Risks Compromise the Potential of P2P File-Sharing Networks?. September – the begins filing lawsuits against individuals allegedly sharing files on. September – is registered. It would be shut down in March 2008, and in May 2008 it would be ordered to pay the $110 million in damages. November – source code is confiscated by the Police.
November 21 – (TPB) is founded by, and. It is based in Sweden.
It has remained active despite numerous legal actions and a police raid in May 2006. As of February 4, 2013, it is the 73rd most popular site on the Internet according to.
2003 – introduces the, which implements the protocol. 2004. January 17 - The initial version of the protocol is introduced for the network.
March 10 – ShareReactor shut down by Swiss Police. May 10 – Winny developer is arrested for suspected conspiracy to commit copyright violation.
June 1 – becomes with the release of v2.0 of the software. As of 2008, almost all of the major clients on its supported networks (, ) are open source. October 28 – The files an additional 750 lawsuits aimed at alleged copyright violations from file sharing. December 14 – Suprnova and many other torrent indexes closed after cease and desist orders.
December 14 – refuses to comply with cease and desist orders, quickly gains 680,000 users, and $40,000 in legal fund donations. Its legitimacy would later be questioned and it would be taken over by in February 2005. December 15 - US Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Workshop entitled Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Technology: Consumer Protection and Competition Issues 2005. January – torrent index goes online as a successor to Suprnova.
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Today we tackle the hype around soundcloud.com as a podcasting solution and compare it to some of the other top podcast media solutions that have been around. I apply my criteria, and see who makes it, and share my opinion on why some of them still make me nervous. Note: For the record you can get a free month at blubrry.com or Libsyn.com using the coupon code sopfree you will see that even though using those codes benefits me financially, those companies don't always finish on top. Here is a print version of this article with a few more screen shots. If you'd like to see more screen shots here is a. Podcast: Subscribe: The Opening Players Amazon S3 Podomatic.com Libsyn.com Blubrry.com Podbean.com Soundcloud.com My Criteria 1. Don't mess with my file. What I upload is what I want people to download.
Give me the ability to have an unlimited back catalog (unlimited storage) 3. Don't limit my audience size (unlimited bandwidth) 4. Don't control my feed, and make it easy to leave if I choose to do so. I need to be able to put in an iTunes redirect script. Give me support. Charge me for your service so you can stay in business 7. Give me stats so I can see what's working.
It would be nice if they were accurate. Honorable mention: If I use your RSS feed, I need to be able to insert a redirect if I decide to leave your service.
This kills the following: Amazon S3. No stats, and your start cheap, but get if I get popular. (my last bill was over $40). Podmatic – Limited bandwidth, limited storage, and no way to leave (you hijack my feed) – You change my file, and I have to ask to leave. – You mess with my ID3 tags, and there is no way to leave. That leaves: Soundcloud.com Libsyn.com Blubrry.com Podbean.com UPDATE: The file does not change when you download the file from soundcloud. HOWEVER, the file they put into the RSS feed has been renamed.
PLUS, if you are a podcaster you have to go to your RSS feed, look at the code (have fun with that) and dig out the mp3 file to put into the Powerpress player on your site (I know, why not just use their player). But in three years, the best solution you have is to dig through the feed? UPDATE 2: Soundcloud change the URL of all the files to some podcasters leaving all of their episodes non-playable. They also lost 29 million dollars last year.
UPDATE 3: After losing 29 million dollars the previous year, Soundcloud lost an additional $4 million the year after that. Pricing I tried to get the hosts to line up in a fashion that we could compare apples to apples. It's not easy. For the most part I chose the price point closest to $20.
Here is what I found. Soundcloud is the cheapest coming in at.0021 per meg (that's almost free) Podbean comes in at.03 per meg of storage (300 megs per month) Libsyn.com comes in at.05 per meg (400 megs per month) Blubrry.com comes in at.08 per meg (250 Megs per month) Note: If you want stats that provide details of where your downloads are coming from (countries) you need to have the $79 a month plan for 1.5 gigabytes of storage (which is overkill in 99% of the cases). With this in mind, I am taking podbean out of most of this discussion. For me, I typically recommend the Libsyn.com account for $20. You get more than enough space and the ability to get a smart phone app. You also get deluxe stats.
Soundcloud wins this one hands down. It's just cool. Does everything but play in a new window. Blubrry Powerpress plugin provides the ability to stream, play in new window, or download. Libsyn's player can do the same as the Powerpress player with some tweaking My choice: I use the blubrry powerpress plugin to put a player on my site (you can use this even if you're not using Blubrry for hosting). Why not Soundcloud?
Because soundcloud stats are not integrated with Libsyn or blubrry like Stitcher stats (hello Soundcloud if you're going to be in this space you better meet your neighbors). This means using soundcloud and another host will require you to check your stats in more than one place. At this point I'm getting negligible plays from the soundcloud website. My favorite player for putting in a sidebar is the one from the Blubrry network (free). Stats Blubrry and Libsyn stats are very simliar with a slight edge to Blubrry for being more user friendly. Libsyn actually gives you more information (cities).
Soundcloud can give you some of this information but not the platform (iphone, windows, etc) that Blubrry.com and Libsyn.com 1. Blubrry.com – great content, pretty, and easy to understand and exportable.
Blubrry.com offers free stats that show downloads and a few other items. Libsyn.com – very similar to blubrry.com (each shows some items the other does not) and exportable. If you're not using the $20 a month plan you get a download numbers only stats. Soundcloud – Basic stats with some geographic location. Podean.com – as mentioned earlier their stats are pitiful (download only, and can only be viewed one episode at a time) unless you ‘re using the $79/month. Unique Capabilities Soudcloud Soundcloud's player is one of the coolest things on the planet.
It makes your content easy to share, it works everywhere you can add a button to the player (for purchasing something, itunes, etc). The one thing it doesn't do is offer the ability to play in a new window.
Blubrry.com Blubrry's key is ease of publishing. Once your audio file is done, you can enter your show notes (blog post) and when you upload the file it will take the title of your post and add it to the mp3 file in the ID3 tags. It will also “tag” the other fields in your file. You do all of this from within the blubrry interface. Blubrry.com has a distribution on the following:. Roku TV Box. Boxee TV Box.
GoogleTV. Android. LookeeTV. Samsung SmartTV. And More! Get a free month at blubrry using the promocode sopfree Libsyn.com Libsyn has a quick publish feature where you can enter your ID3 tags, and upload the file using an FTP software to a specific folder.
The information from within your media file is then used to create an episode post on Libsyn.com This posting can then be replicated on your WordPress site, facebook page, tumblr.com, blogger.com, Linkedincom, If you have $20 a month plan or higher, you can get a smartphone app for your podcast for free. You can charge people for this, or you can spend a little money to get an Apple developer's license and give it away for free (you do need to pay an $10 a month to libsyn as they will provide the customer support for the app). Libsyn also offers the ability to sell your back catalog. Top podcasters Marc Maron, Adam Corolla and others use this tool which you can Libsyn stats have a cool feature that allow you to double click on a day and see what files were downloaded.
This is interesting as you will see your latest episodes and you will also see you back catalog being downloaded. Get a free month at Libsyn using the promocode sopfree Podbean For $79 a month, you can manage your mailing list through podbean (or you can use a tool like Awber designed to handle mailing lists). You can get a free month at podbean using the coupon code sopfree Frequently Asked Podcast Questions on Soundcloud Can I have more than one podcast on Soundcloud? I have all my old outdated (out if print if you will) shows on there as a test. There is only one RSS feed. If you are using your own website and rss feed you could use them as “just a media host.” What's the limitation of their free account? You can only upload a certain amount of files.
When I first played with them, I would have to delete a file to upload a new one. Fishy Things About Podbean and SoundCloud While Libsyn and Blubrry have representatives in all of the podcasting communities. They are at our conventions. We know them by name. Todd, Mike, Angelo, Rob, Elsie, Krystal. Podbean and Soundcloud have no presence that I've seen.
They have their websites and pretty much that's it. Pobean does not list their address on their website. If you want it its: 501 Silverside Road, Suite 105, Wilmington, DE, 19809, United States Phone: +1 514 969 1917 UPDATE: When you search for their address in Google it comes up a “virtual office.” HMMMMMM Why would you not list your address unless you don't want to be found? Soundcloud has been around since 2008 5 million official SoundCloud apps have been downloaded. In 20012 they celebrated 10 million sound creators. According to crunch base they've receive.
In 2014 they received. Yet their podcasting tools are in beta, and you have to request to be in it. Why is this still in beta after three years (it launched in )? Podcast: Subscribe: So is Soundcloud a legitimate podcast solution? They do pass all of my criteria, so with that I could say yes. For me, I am still a little nervous about a system that's been in development for THREE YEARS and has not come out of beta.
I think their interfaceS (remember they are in the middle up upgrading their interface) makes their system unfriendly, and their stats are not on par with the two companies I recommend which are Blubrry.com and Libsyn.com I am using them as an additional distribution point to see if I get any traction over there. In reality, like any other platform, you get out of it what you put into it. Thanks to Neil, “You were wrong Dave” Smith of for sharing his pain.
Check out the event if you're in the UK Join the School of Podcasting today and avoid the pains of podcasting, or take. Dave Of all the things you said, one bit had me scratching my head a little. The comments on not being able to play the Soundcloud audio in a new window. Tabbed browsing has been around for some years now. Don’t want to leave the page playing the audio, just open a new tab. As for everything else.
I totally agree. I went down the Archive.org then BuzzSprout route when setting up – I very quickly realised my error and moved over to Libsyn. For me using SoundCloud would be like asking a car electrician to rewire your house (having purchased a house where the previous owner did just that, I know what a disaster it can be).
Cheers Mark. I agree with you when it comes to SoundCloud.
They need to get their podcasting service out of beta and they need to get into the community, already. On a somewhat related note, I heard Tom Merritt say today during an interview on the Mac Power Users podcast that he hosts the audio files for his new daily tech news show on archive.org.
Kinda surprised by that, especially considering the highly successful Patreon campaign he’s had for that podcast. His explanation for this was something like, “Everything ends up on archive.org eventually anyway, so I may as well just put the files there first.” I hope all of the dedicated fans who chipped in to help his campaign appreciate the slow download speeds. And I wonder if Merritt is donating any of those funds to archive.org to help with their bandwidth costs. Thanks Dave, My thought was to keep blubrry for my regular episodes, and use Soundcloud for short bits. I am thinking/hoping I can do something on Soundcloud without even using the RSS feed.
After all, if I were to put a song up using Soundcloud I wouldn’t need to do it using an RSSright? I suppose using it this way would mean that my “shorts” would not go to iTunes, etc., but I might just be able to publish them via social media. Thanks again Davelove the show and I love that you are a fellow Clevelander!
West Side m/. Hi, Dave coming across this post, and thought I’d ask a few questions that are on my mind. 1 If somebody has their own wordpress website and uses Powerpress or Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin, why would I need media hosting at libsyn, Blubrry or soundcloud?
I already have an itunes compliant RSS feed then 2 Getting my feed into iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn and Instacast looks easy enough just need to add my RSS feed details. What about getting my feed into soundcloud? Would I manually upload my episodes to get them listed? 3 What’s the best way to get my RSS feed broadly listed in RELEVANT podcast platforms/directories? Libsyn and Blubrry offer unlimited bandwidth on MEDIA.
HOstgator, Dreamhost, etc all say unlimited bandwidth, but it is a total crap shoot if they ask you to leave when you get popular. Soundcloud is not a directory. If you want your stuff on SOundcloud you upload it one file at a time (have fun with that) and in my travels, they represent 3% of my audience. To get into directories, get some sort of short keys system and submit it to them.
I would say iTUnes, Stitcher, Tunin. The rest are up for grabs.
Then make great content that makes your audience talk about it. Hi Dave, you’ve helped me out before and very much appreciated!
I was just pondering this question as well and for what I need Libsyn is crazy expensive! I do 2, 2 hour live talk shows per week on relationships and sexual issues. I currently use spreaker, though moving over to krykey.com Though wanted to be able to have listeners listen live (which will be through keykey.com (run a total station at 320K 24/7 for $30 per month) add phone app and that’s another $10 per month cheap and great quality. Any ways, I was just asking this question so listeners downloading my recorded shows, etc.soundcloud seems like to best way to go and cost effective. Though am leery of the difficulty as you said for RSS feeds, etc I’ll just be using it as a media storage outlet wit htheir tracking too and their player is cool as you noted! Thank you again everyone! Thanks for you follow up! Saint seiya scan ita download free.
I have been with spreaker since last June/July, they are good quality, though their customer service is poor and slow. Sound quality is good and I do have my own app through spreaker ($100 per year each for Android and Apple apps) Though spreaker has a very nice app as well. The sound quality with the 320k is incredible, though as you said is that needed?
Perhaps not, though nice. I do a 2 hr live show, twice a week with spreaker using SAM Broadcasting, works great, though it’s $50 per month, not $20 as you stated for what I need.
Libsyn would be like $80 per month at least for the hours I need, unless I misread something because the storage limitations of 1500mb, 800 at $50 per month was not enough with 4 hrs per week, 4 or 5 weeks. The Krykey is 24/7 for only $30.
I did read your insights into soundcloud as well Thanks so much! Hey All, a good friend of mine and I are gearing up to start a podcast and Dave’s show and SPI have been great for info. Thanks Dave for what you’ve put out here (“I feel like I know you man!”) Paying the website host is pretty darn cheap and one time (for the year) and the microphone is reasonable – so that’s fine. Up front costs really seem to exist with the site, microphone and media hosting with the latter being the (I think?) most costly. As such, $20 a month isn’t much, but I’m not sure we’re prepared for a monthly cost at this point.
I don’t disagree with the ‘get what you pay for’ thing. If there’s a reasonably sound free option at the get-go.I think that’s the route we want to take. I haven’t really heard anything DEFINITIVE here regarding SoundCloud.
What I understand is: Their software is in betaBUT they’ve been around a long timethen again so has the beta Getting your direct link isn’t easy.BUT someone has posted a workaround that appears to work fine. There’s a limit to the number of files / episodes you can have up there requiring you to remove the old before you can load new ones. – How big of a barrier is this?
What’s the limit? Can anyone say.’don’t do it’ or ‘considering the info posted, you’re ok to start with this’? I appreciate any feedback. Hello, I came across your post listing the best podcast hosting sites and noticed that BlastPod by Podcast Blastoff was not included. Admittedly, it would have been hard for you to include as it was in production at the time of the writing. Blastpod is not just another solution built on wordpress.
It was built, from the ground up by podcasters, for podcasters. Every aspect of BlastPod was built with podcasters in mind. Every tool is built to make your podcast website something to be proud of. Well, we are live now and offering Easy Podcast Hosting, a Website Builder (no coding required) with themes and templates to match any brand, as well as a podcast management system that makes uploading a podcast to itunes, stitcher, and your own blastpod site as easy as updating your status and a wide range of tools, statistics and widgets to make your podcast website something you will be proud to display.
We would be greatful if you would like to view the full range of features and give us your opinion and possibly include us in your next review. You can find us. Hello, thank you for all of your information. I am just beginning to get into the podcast world and came across the blubrry plugin, which i have set up and am quite happy with. Question: the player. I have included the clammr player with the blubrry plugin, and it is the one i am happiest with as of right now. However, i cannot get an image or description to show up with it, just the player itself.
I tagged the image for the sample file, via itunes, but it does not show on the site. Also, unfortunately, the clammr player does not show up in the playlist,as i was informed it would not. It is a pity, makes for a bit of a work around for those who might go to the playlist to listen to podcasts but will not be able to share clips directly from the playlist.
I really like the soundcloud player, and yet, the clammr feature i have is not available on soundcloud and i think it is a really good feature. So, is there anyway to spice up the clammr player with description and image? Also,maybe this is only an issue because i have not uploaded a podcast to itunes yet. Is that what would allow the image and description to display on my site?
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