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Please describe the easiest way to create a podcast of my minister's sermon and post online for members.?

I would like to:

Create a podcast of minister's sermon.

Preferably, minister could have a lapel microphone.

I am willing to spend ~$500-1000 for ipod, microphone, other equipment.

Speaker/Minister is not currently hooked into sound system or using a microphone.

Sound system and accessories should be easy to setup and store once a week.

Would be really cool if we had another microphone that could roam in a small room when people have questions to get those recorded as part of podcast.

Once podcast is created need an easy way to post those podcasts so that members can go download. If I could have a static url members access at the church web site that would link to a library of sermons (sorted by date and titles) that would be ideal.

I am moderately tech savvy. Examples, I have 3 ipods and use iTunes, I can setup my own router, I just setup my Slingbox last week, I generally like tinkering with technology and software products.

Thanks for your help!

YOU CAN DO IT FOR FREE!!!!!!!!!!

YES!!!The whole point of podcasting, I feel, is to beable to share with people, the things you have to say. Why be charged?! But one thing is true, the better you want something to be, the more you have to work at it.

Ok... forget all the crap about having to learn to encode this and that into that RSS feed mumbo jumbo... I have finally figured it out after several weeks of browsing the internet and having no clue what I was looking for. These online guides tell you what to do and they leave out so many little details, thus, leaving you feeling stupid and confused... At least, that was My experience.

I'm gonna walk you through as many steps as I can remember.

As for recording devices, I'm sure you can go to radio shack and get a small digital recorder, and follow the instructions on the box to transfer the file to your computer. Or, like many churches, have the sermon recorded to a cd through the mic at the pulpit as he is preaching. Then you can use the cd with the sermon.

First things first, have an idea. Tons of tutorials say that and it seems silly, but they really mean it. What's the point of finally figuring out how to use all that crap you downloaded and signed up for, if you are kind of like, "Ok... what do I do now?" at the end? So... have an idea of what you want to do. DONT USE ANYTHING COPYRIGHTED! Besides... this podcast is about YOU!

Sign up for either WORDPRESS or MYSPACE. They are free, so dont worry. I suggest Myspace because of the awesome ability to meet people, the totally editable homepage, and the very versatile and useful blog.
(BLOG- is just an online journal.)

Your blog is where youre going to host your podcast. What you type in the box as your diary entry will show up as your description for that episode of your podcast. The best thing about Myspace is that at the bottom of each blog you post, there is the option for "podcast enclosure". This little baby is a gem. But we'll get to that later.

Next thing you do is sign up for OURMEDIA. This is a free file hosting server. It is the place that youre going to use to host the actual Mp3 podcasts. It also allows you to get your stuff copyrighted. Sweet deal! Now, if your file that you have is larger than 10mb, you will find it VERY USEFUL to download their file uploading tool, OURMEDIA PUBLISHER. It makes the whole process very easy.

Now... FEEDBURNER is a really cool site because it lets you put your Podcast on a personal page that you can go to, to monitor how many subscribers you have, what kind of software they are using to subscribe to your little podcast, and it just makes a very easy address for you to use to share your podcast with your friends. I don't think you NEED to use it, but it does make it VERY handy.

As for the software that you use, I'm sure you might have tried Windows Sound Recorder that comes on your computer when you buy it... but I highly suggest you NOT USE IT. The quality will be bad and the format that the sound gets saved in is WAV... you need MP3.

So, I suggest AUDACITY. This is a super cool program. Get the older version, because the newer one is not finished yet and so there might be a couple problems with it. In Audacity, if there are some "uhm"s that you find undesireable, just click and drag over it on the little graph, edit and cut... Voila! It's like it never happened.

In saving your file, you'll need to get LAME. You can find this on the Audacity website under PLUGINS. just run and install it in the Audacity Plugins folder on your computer. This is so that when youre done making your file, you can Export as MP3 and it will let you do it with ease.

Now... Here's the whole deal step by step. I know it seems like its a bit of work, but it is SUPER EASY... There's just several steps to it, that's all. But best of all, its free!! Excuse me... I said FREE!!

1-record, edit, save file as Mp3 on your computer using Audacity and Lame.

2- use Ourmedia Publisher program to upload your mp3 to your account on Ourmedia.com It might take anywhere up to an hour to show up, but it works fine.

3- Write the title of the specific podcast episode in a blog entry on Myspace. In the big box, write a short description of what it is. There are other options; use em if you like.

4- Copy the URL(address) to your file on Ourmedia, and post it in "Podcast Enclosure" at the bottom of the Myspace Blog page. Then post the blog.
---At this point, you have a readily available podcast with your first episode.---

5- View your Myspace blog, Here you'll see the first post. You wont see any link to the audio that you posted, but I assure you, it is there. Now, click the RSS link and copy the URL that is in the address box on your browser. This is called your RSS FEED.

6- Go to your Feedburner account, and paste that url in the add feeds box. It might ask you to post Blog url, there you post the url to your blog. It should be something like http:// www. blog. myspace. com/YOUR SCREEN NAME

7- Follow the steps. Feed title is the name of the Podcast itself. Name the episode. Add an accompanying photo... You can add a photo on Ourmedia too.

8- In your Feedburner account, you can see all posts that you made to Myspace Blog, even if they dont have any audo files enclosed to them. This is handy. Also, for the blog posts that do have audio, there is a link that will take you to a page that plays it for you, so you dont have to open Itunes or any other RSS READERS. Super Handy.

9- You can submit your RSS feed to Itunes by clicking on the podcast button in Itunes, going to the podcast store thingy at the bottom and clicking on "submit podcast". This will add your podcast to their store, for people to see and subscribe to. NOTE: It might take up to several days before you get an e-mail from them saying that it has been added to the store. When they e-mail you, you will get a link to the exact Podcast you submitted, and then you can subscribe to it. itunes automatically downloads new episodes for you.

10- You can use other rss readers such as JUICE, if you choose. I love this one cause its really easy to use. Submit your podcast rss url through this program to get into other directories. Also, list your podcast in PODCAST.NET.

I'm also going to post all of the links to all of the tools that I have told you that you need in order to do this Free of Charge. I sure hope that I helped you. If you have any other questions, DO EMAIL ME!!!! or SKYPE ME!!

Best of Luck, Desiree Midkiff.

dr_desiree84@yahoo.com
SKYPE: torchsingerbynight

http://www.feeds.feedburner.com/torchsingerbynight

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