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Table of Contents

READ ME FIRST 4 Updates................................................................................. 4 Basics ................................................................................... 4 What’s New in Versions 2.0 and 2.1 .......................................... 5

INTRODUCTION 7

PODCASTING QUICK START 9

PLAN YOUR PODCAST 10 Decide What You Want to Say .................................................10 Pick a Format ........................................................................10 Listen to Your Audience, Listen to Your Show.............................11 Learn Podcasting Terminology .................................................11

SET UP YOUR STUDIO 13 Choose a Microphone and Supporting Hardware.........................13 Audio Software You Need........................................................20 Set Up Audio.........................................................................27

RECORD YOUR PODCAST 29 Use Good Microphone Techniques ............................................29 Interview People Successfully ..................................................30 Use Audio Plug-ins to Sound Your Best .....................................32 Record with Audio Hijack Pro...................................................35 Record with GarageBand.........................................................47 Record with Sound Studio .......................................................53 Record with WireTap Studio ....................................................54 Record with Übercaster...........................................................58 Pull Audio from Multiple Sources with Soundflower .....................60

EDIT YOUR PODCAST 65 Edit with GarageBand.............................................................65 Edit with Fission ....................................................................76 Edit with WireTap Studio.........................................................77 Edit with Sound Studio ...........................................................81 Edit with Übercaster...............................................................83

TAG AND ADD CHAPTERS TO YOUR PODCAST 92 Add Tags to Identify Your Podcast ............................................92 Use Chapters to Create an Enhanced Podcast ............................99

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ENCODE YOUR PODCAST 103 Decide How to Work.............................................................103 Figure Out Encoding Settings.................................................105 Encode with GarageBand ......................................................106 Encode with WireTap Studio ..................................................106 Encode with Übercaster ........................................................106 Encode with iTunes ..............................................................107

PUBLISH AND PROMOTE YOUR PODCAST 109 Understand Bandwidth Costs .................................................109 Understand Syndication Formats............................................110 Tools to Publish Podcasts ......................................................111 Upload and Publish an Episode...............................................113 Promote Your Podcast ..........................................................114

LEARN MORE 116 The Take Control of Podcasting… Podcast ................................116 Web Resources....................................................................116

ABOUT THIS BOOK 117 About the Author .................................................................117 Author’s Acknowledgments ...................................................117 Shameless Plug ...................................................................118 About the Publisher..............................................................118 Production Credits................................................................118

COPYRIGHT AND FINE PRINT 119

FEATURED TITLES 120

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Read Me First Welcome to Take Control of Podcasting on the Mac, version 2.1, published in July 2009 by TidBITS Publishing Inc. This book was written by Andy J. Williams Affleck, and it was edited by Geoff Duncan.

This book gives you all the information you need to begin your first podcast quickly and without spending much (if any) money by sug-gesting which software and hardware to buy for better results and teaching you how to use it.

Copyright © 2008, 2009 Andy J. Williams Affleck. All rights reserved.

If you have the PDF version of this title, please note that if you want to share it with a friend, we ask that you do so as you would a physical book: “lend” it for a quick look, but ask your friend to buy a new copy to read it more carefully or to keep it for reference. You can click here to give your friend a discount coupon. Discounted classroom and Mac user group copies are also available.

UPDATES We may offer free minor updates to this book. To read any available new information, click the Check for Updates link on the cover or click here. On the resulting Web page, you can also sign up to be notified of major updates via email. If you own only the print version of the book or have some other version where the Check for Updates link doesn’t work, contact us at [email protected] to obtain the PDF.

BASICS In reading this book, you may get stuck if you don’t know certain fundamental facts about audio settings on your Mac or if you don’t understand Take Control syntax for things like working with menus or finding items in the Finder.


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Please note the following:

• Menus: Where I describe choosing a command from a menu in the menu bar, I use an abbreviated description. For example, the abbreviated description for the menu command that saves a file from GarageBand is “File > Save.”

• Finding an application’s preferences: I often refer to preferences in an application that you may want to adjust. Don’t confuse an application’s preferences with the system-wide settings found in System Preferences.

To access an application’s preferences, choose Application Name > Preferences. For example, in the program GarageBand, you would choose GarageBand > Preferences. Within some applications, all preference controls appear in a single window. In others, a bank of buttons is located across the top. In those cases, click a button to display a pane with that category of preferences. Instead of giving detailed directions each time, I may use an abbreviated notation such as “go to the Audio preference pane.”

WHAT’S NEW IN VERSIONS 2.0 AND 2.1 I updated this ebook to version 2.1 to add coverage of GarageBand 5, which was released in early 2009 in iLife ’09. GarageBand 5 is also known as GarageBand ’09. To read about GarageBand 5, see Choose Your Audio Software (p. 21), but changes relating to GarageBand are sprinkled throughout the book.

The second edition of this book (version 2.0) was published in mid-2008, and it included new advanced techniques and sample sounds. The most important changes were:

• I added coverage of two new programs: WireTap Studio and Übercaster. Both are powerful tools to consider adding to your podcasting toolbox. In particular, see:

◊ Record with WireTap Studio (p. 54)

◊ Record with Übercaster (p. 58)

◊ Edit with WireTap Studio (p. 77)

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• In version 2.0 of this book, I switched the GarageBand coverage from looking at GarageBand 3 to mostly focusing on GarageBand 4.

Still using an older version of GarageBand? To find directions specific to GarageBand 2, 3, or 4, you can download a previous version of this ebook—to do so, switch to the cover and click the Check for Updates button. If your button doesn’t work for whatever reason, contact us and request the PDF.

• I dropped coverage of Audacity. Though it is a powerful tool, I no longer recommend it for podcasting. Very few podcasters who I know still use it, due to its instability and confusing interface.

• I added a discussion of how to Use Audio Plug-ins to Sound Your Best (p. 32), where I describe these plug-ins and their different for-mats, and provide sound samples so you can listen to what they do.

• I added a subsection on how to Interview People Successfully (p. 30). It looks at ways that you can make guests on your show sound their best.

• I made many other smaller changes throughout the entire book, updating every section with new information.




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Introduction

I discovered podcasting before it had a name. In August 2004, Adam Curry, a former MTV VJ, began producing a daily show from his home in the Netherlands in which he talked about topics that interested him and he played music he felt like sharing.

Others had produced “audio blogs” before, most notably Dave Winer, who created subscription and update standards first for text and later for attachments—including audio—without which podcasting couldn’t exist. But it wasn’t until both Curry wrote some primitive software and Winer popularized it that summer that something gelled, making pod-casting a fad, a trend, and now a part of tens of thousands of Web sites.

When I heard Curry’s original show, I was immediately fascinated. I began producing my own show just a few months later. I started podcasting because I’ve always been something of a sucker for new technologies. My Web log has been continuously active since 1994, making it one of the oldest out there, and I had always dreamed of adding media beyond text and graphics. Podcasting opened that door for me. I wrote this book to open the door for you as well.

A podcast is a downloadable audio file. It could be as simple as a song that a podcaster wanted to share, or it might be a full-blown audio show edited together in the style of a radio program. Most pod-casts are free to listeners. Subscription and automatic downloading makes podcasting distinct from audio files linked from Web sites.

An individual podcast, also known as an episode, is typically retrieved using software, sometimes called a podcatcher, that automatically and regularly checks for newer episodes. A podcast file is usually in MP3 or AAC format, though other audio formats can be used as well. The publishing side of podcasting is syndication; the retrieval side is subscription. Most podcasts can also be downloaded manually.

Podcasting combines elements of several disparate technologies— audio recording and editing, content syndication, and Internet file transfers—into a single seamless process that retrieves audio from



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a Web site onto listeners’ computers and, usually, synchronizes it to an external digital audio player. One click on a subscription button can often initiate the whole process.

More Background Info You can read about the history of podcasting, as well as the basics of subscribing to and listening to podcasts, in a TidBITS article that I wrote called “Podcasting: The People’s Radio” (http://db.tidbits.com/article/7986). See also my follow-up article detailing Apple’s iTunes podcatching features (http://db.tidbits.com/article/8160).

Creating your own podcasts can be highly rewarding. I enjoy pulling together music, my writings, random thoughts, and interviews with people into a single show. Other people simulate the classic style of old-time radio theater.

Academic institutions such as Stanford University and the Harvard University Graduate School of Education are looking at how podcasts can supplement classroom teaching. Major companies use podcasting as a way to get their content out to a much wider audience.

Podcasts don’t need the professional veneer of a commercial radio broadcast. In fact, some podcasters feel it’s antithetical to the podcast-ing spirit to be overly professional. Just start recording. If your content is worthwhile, you’ll find an audience. You can always improve your production as you discover what works and what doesn’t.

What’s in a Name? You don’t need an iPod to listen to podcasts. If another media player were the cool toy everyone had to have, podcasting would be called sandiskcasting or zunecasting. (Okay, no it wouldn’t; Apple has a gift for names, but Apple didn’t coin podcast.)

Some people use the term audio blogging, which doesn’t encom-pass the variety of material found in podcasts, or netcast, which has neither the charm nor the specificity of podcast. There was rumbling at one point about Apple asserting legal rights to the term “pod” and some people worried that calling something a podcast would open them up to litigation. We’re several years into the podcasting phenomena and that hasn’t happened, so I don’t feel a need to re-title this book just yet.


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Podcasting Quick Start This book shows you how to plan, record, edit, encode, and publish a podcast. You can learn about these steps in any order, but I encourage beginners to read the material in sequence.

Plan your podcast:

• Understand the process; see Plan Your Podcast (p. 10).

• Brush up your vocabulary in Learn Podcasting Terminology (p. 11).

Record your podcast:

• Make sure you have the hardware and software that fits your needs and budget; see Set Up Your Studio (p. 13).

• Consult Use Good Microphone Techniques (p. 29) in order to avoid common mistakes.

• Find advice and procedures for how to Record Your Podcast (p. 29), and read steps for how to Record an Interview Using iChat (p. 52), Record VoIP in Audio Hijack Pro (p. 42), or Record VoIP in WireTap Studio (p. 56).

Edit and encode your podcast:

• Learn basic audio editing techniques in Edit Your Podcast (p. 65).

• Tag your podcast with metadata and add chapters for navigating an episode; see Tag and Add Chapters to Your Podcast (p. 92).

• Decide which encoding settings you want to use and encode your podcast for uploading; read Encode Your Podcast (p. 103).

Publish and promote your podcast:

• Understand Bandwidth Costs (p. 109) so you don’t go broke if you become popular.

• Upload and host your show; see Tools to Publish Podcasts (p. 111).

• Syndicate your show; consult Understand Syndication Formats (p. 110) and Promote Your Podcast (p. 114).



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Plan Your Podcast Proper planning produces podcast prosperity.

DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY Do you want to talk politics? Music? Cooking? Just have an audio version of your Web log? There’s no restriction for what a podcast should and should not be. Of course, if you cover all these topics and more, you may find it harder to find an audience than if you focus on a narrower range and cover it well.

Finding listeners is simpler if your podcast can be summarized in a sentence. More people will sample your show if it fits in a category in a podcast directory—like that found in the iTunes Store—than if it ends up lumped in a generic catch-all list. It’s unlikely that listeners will tune into your random thoughts unless the podcast is recommended or those random thoughts happen to fall in the listeners’ areas of interest.

PICK A FORMAT Decide how simple or complex you want your show to be. Do you want each show to start with the same opening (called the intro) and finish with the same closing (outro)? Do you want music to segue between topics much the same way NPR’s All Things Considered does? Will you be the only voice or will you have co-hosts in roundtable discussions? Will you interview people, either in-person or over the phone or Internet? Will you play a lot of music?

A fixed format will simplify producing your show and help your audience know what to expect. But a fixed format might also make a podcast less interesting for you to produce.



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Set Up Your Studio The format for your podcast determines the technical setup of your studio. Some people want to record while mobile. Most people pod-cast in front of a single computer with a single microphone and mix in sounds from other applications, such as iTunes, Skype, and iChat.

CHOOSE A MICROPHONE AND SUPPORTING HARDWARE The only truly essential tools for podcasting are a computer and a mic-rophone. A breakout box designed to provide external inputs of various kinds, including those used in more traditional audio, may be a helpful addition. Some podcasters find an external mixer useful for controlling multiple sound inputs as well. Let’s start with the mic, and then Decide on a Breakout Box or Mixer.

Pick a Mic For podcasting, two types of microphones are important:

• A directional mic, which records sound from one specific direction.

• An omnidirectional mic, which picks up sound in all directions.

Directional This kind of mic, sometimes called unidirectional, filters sound from all areas except for one primary direction. Directional mics are great for general speech because you can focus them on your voice and make many nearby sounds, including a computer fan, not as intrusive. But directional mics can be a liability: for example, in an interview, each speaker needs his or her own directional mic. Also, directional mics are generally more likely to distort wind noise, plosives, and sibilants.

Omnidirectional An omnidirectional mic works well for recording ambient sounds outdoors, such as when you create a “soundseeing” tour (see Take Your Show on the Road, ahead). It’s also good for an interview if you have only a single mic. However, omnidirectional mics pick up surprising amounts of sound from all around, including room noise, computer fans, traffic, and chair squeaks.



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Record Your Podcast Ultimately, recording a podcast is about capturing audio. You may record your voice, include a song, interview somebody over Skype or iChat, or play sound effects. No matter what the source of the sound, it has to be captured and recorded by software on your computer.

In this section, I start by discussing good microphone techniques and using audio plug-ins and effects, and then I walk you through several software programs that I recommend using for audio cap-ture: Audio Hijack Pro, GarageBand, WireTap Studio, Übercaster, and Sound Studio. I then pull the process together with tips on Soundflower, a shared audio space that makes these other tools work better with multiple audio streams.

USE GOOD MICROPHONE TECHNIQUES Before recording, let’s talk about a little physical reality: setting up and talking into a microphone. There’s an art to using a mic, but a few quick tips cover most of what you need to know:

• Keep the mic away from your mouth: Position the mic a few inches away and somewhat above or below your mouth so that you do not breath directly into it. This helps prevent plosives and sibilants.

• Angle the mic: If possible, point the microphone down toward your mouth from above to reduce plosives, nasal tones, and lip-smacking sounds.

• Set the appropriate input levels: Go to System Preferences > Sound and select the Input section and check the audio input levels. Begin speaking and adjust the slider until you are filling about 80 percent of the bars. Any louder and you risk your sound being distorted; any less and your input may be too quiet.



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Edit Your Podcast Once you’ve recorded all the pieces of your podcast, you may want to edit them, either to sequence pieces together or to remove any-thing accidental, such as excessive stumbling in your speech or other mistakes. (You could decide to not edit at all, too.)

EDIT WITH GARAGEBAND GarageBand provides great flexibility in mixing different tracks and modifying the properties of each track (including filters, equalizer settings, echo, and reverb). The program processes these changes on the fly as it plays back the audio, without altering the underlying audio data. You can also make permanent edits to remove gaps, speech stumbles, and other unwanted content, as well as cut, copy, and paste audio bits into other locations. (These instructions apply to GarageBand versions 2 through 5.)

Add Additional Audio To include additional audio in a GarageBand project, simply drag in any audio you plan to use. You can bring in any MP3, AIFF, or AAC file (except protected music purchased from the iTunes Store). You can also drag in music, sound effects, and more from within GarageBand. GarageBand has a large collection of fun (and cloying) sounds you can use to spice up a podcast. Each time you drag in a new file, GarageBand puts it in a new, unique track (Figure 27).

GarageBand 3 through 5 also offer an integrated Media Browser that provides access to your iTunes library (and iPhoto library!) without leaving GarageBand. Choose Control > Media Browser to open the Media Browser, or click the Media Browser button on the lower right of the timeline.



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Tag and Add Chapters to Your Podcast You’ve probably noticed that many (in fact, most) podcast files come with information to help listeners organize and manage episodes, and some sophisticated podcasts are even divided into sections, each with their own artwork and embedded Web links. I’ll show you how to add these details to your podcasts and explain the pros and cons of using chapters in enhanced podcasts.

ADD TAGS TO IDENTIFY YOUR PODCAST Tags (also referred to as ID3 tags) are bits of descriptive information—also known metadata—that you can add to your podcast. Tags help listeners sort podcasts and provide details about podcast content. You can add tags to your podcast with a variety of programs covered later in this section. Tags are supported by MP3 and AAC formats, and they are used by a wide variety of programs and media players.

Table 4, next page, rounds up tags that you should apply to your podcasts.



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Encode Your Podcast Your final, spiffed-up product is likely a large file in a raw audio format, such as AIFF, that needs to be encoded into MP3 or AAC format for online distribution. These formats compress the audio down to a reasonable size so that you can share the file on the Internet.

DECIDE HOW TO WORK Before you start encoding, you should determine what file format you want your podcast to end up in, what settings you want to apply as you encode the file into that format, and what software to use for encoding.

The latter decision is easy: as with tagging, you will probably want to encode with whichever program you are already using for your final mixdown. Virtually all of them enable you to save your podcast in your preferred format. If not, iTunes can do it for you.

Pick an Encoded Audio File Format Always record directly to AIFF, edit, and then encode to either MP3 or AAC (see Table 5, next page, for audio format details). Here’s why:

• Encoding to a compressed format requires a lot of processing power. Making your computer encode on the fly while you try to sequence audio from multiple sources may overpower it, and you risk having some of your audio drop out as the computer fails to keep up with all its tasks.

• I prefer to have a full- range, uncompressed master of my shows and then experiment with encoding options. If I have a show that is mostly talk, I encode it one way; if it has a lot of music in it, I encode it another way. Because it can be hard to know what will work best before you record the show, I suggest leaving encoding until the end so you can perfect your settings.

I recommend you stick to the MP3 format unless your audience all uses iTunes (and perhaps an iPod), in which case AAC may be a better option. (AAC is a subset of the MPEG4 standard, which is why we’ll see more devices handling it over time.) For example, I use AAC rather than MP3



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Publish and Promote Your Podcast Now that your show is ready for the public, you can make it avail-able and let people know about it. You need to put the MP3 or AAC file on a server, list the podcast on a Web site, reference the podcast in the RSS feed for the Web site, and advertise the show. However, before I cover all that, you need to understand the potential pitfalls of success.

UNDERSTAND BANDWIDTH COSTS Moving bits costs money. The site or service that hosts your podcasts pays money per megabyte, gigabyte, or terabyte per month (or by their peak bits per second) for pushing data out from their network. Most hosting companies pass that cost along to you in some way. Before you upload your show and get it out there, be aware of your hosting company’s policies toward bandwidth.

If your show were to become popular—with lots of listeners wanting to download episodes—you could find yourself on the losing end of one of the great contradictions of the Internet: the more popular you are, the more money it costs you.

For example, when I wrote an article for TidBITS about podcasting in February 2005 (http://db.tidbits.com/article/7986), I hosted a podcast to go with it featuring an interview with Dave Winer. Before this point, each episode of my podcast racked up a modest 300 downloads. At about 10 MB per episode, that was around 3 GB of traffic from my Web site. My provider includes 30 GB per month of bandwidth allowance as part of my recurring service fee. After that, I would be paying $5 per gigabyte.

When the article was published, I moved over 25 GB in just a few days. If the article had been any more popular, it could have cost me a great deal of money. Instead of my usual $30 per month, I could have been paying double, triple, or even more for that one month.




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THE TAKE CONTROL OF PODCASTING… PODCAST This book has a companion podcast that fleshes out examples and keeps listeners current with the world of podcasting by providing breaking news, software reviews, tips, interviews, and more. If you create a show, please share it with me and I’ll even play clips and promos from it on the podcast, if you like. The show is at http://tcopodcasting.podbus.com/.

WEB RESOURCES The Web page noted above has a tab that lists current resources of interest to podcasters. Among them are the following:

• Apple’s GarageBand site: http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/gettingstarted/

Apple offers a must-read primer on using GarageBand.

• Podcast411: http://www.podcast411.com/

Podcast411 is a podcast and a Web site that has included excellent tutorials, resources, and info for many years.

• Podcast Academy: http://podcastacademy.com/

The Podcast Academy offers podcast training on many topics.

• Podcasters’ pages: Many podcasters have pages that describe their hardware, software, and techniques—in other words, valuable information for helping you with your set-up. Samples include:

◊ The Murverse: http://murverse.com/about/about-mur/

◊ TWiT.TV with Leo Laporte & Friends, Podcasting Equipment: http://twit.tv/podcastequipment

◊ Hivelogic: Podcasting Equipment Guide: http://hivelogic.com/articles/view/podcasting-equipment-guide


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About This Book Thank you for purchasing this Take Control book. We hope you find it both useful and enjoyable to read. We welcome your comments at [email protected]. Keep reading in this section to learn more about the author, the Take Control series, and the publisher.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andy J. Williams Affleck (the Affleck part was stolen from his wife) has been using Macs since 1984 and has always been obsessed with any new medium that improves communication. At first it was mainframe-based chat systems (Dartmouth College’s XYZ for anyone who would remember that); and then email, instant messaging, newsletters; and finally the Web. He built Dartmouth College’s first Web site in 1993, put together the original Web site for the sitcom Friends, and started a virtual community that’s still around and kicking 13 years later.

He has a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Technology in Education, specifically online networks for teaching and learning. When he’s not figuring out new ways for people to communicate online, he’s a senior project manager and a project management officer (PMO), freelance Web and graphic designer, an accessible Web design expert (Section 508), and a Cub Scout Den Leader. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife and son.

AUTHOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to my wife for giving me the space to work on my crazy, noisy projects and for keeping me sane. This book is dedicated to my son, without whom my podcasts would be infinitely more boring.




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SHAMELESS PLUG The companion podcast to this book can be found at http://tcopodcasting.podbus.com/. In addition, my Web log, which I’ve worked on more or less consistently since 1994, can be found at http://AndyAffleck.com/.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER Publishers Adam and Tonya Engst have been creating Macintosh-related content since they started the online newsletter TidBITS, in 1990. In TidBITS, you can find the latest Macintosh news, plus read reviews, opinions, and more (http://www.tidbits.com/).

Adam and Tonya are known in the Mac world as writers, editors, and speakers. They are also parents to Tristan, who thinks ebooks about clipper ships and castles would be cool.

PRODUCTION CREDITS Take Control logo: Jeff Tolbert

Cover design: Jon Hersh

Editor: Geoff Duncan

Editor in Chief and picky question asker: Tonya Engst

Publisher and grep automation master: Adam Engst

Thanks to Amelia Habicht for her inspiring positive attitude! Thanks to Tristan for vacuuming.


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