Quick Start Guide

PODCAST QUICK-START GUIDE
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Welcome to the BEHRINGER PODCAST quick-start guide
Thank you for choosing one of our podcast-capable products. This top-notch
bundle of hardware and software lets you creatively produce professional
sounding podcasts for the Internet. Move up to the next step in the evolution of
broadcasting, and free yourself and others from the limitations of conventional
mass communication.
Podcasting Basics
Before you get started, it is important to understand some of the terminology and
uses surrounding the emerging  eld of podcasting.
Podcasting is a term derived from the combination of the words “iPod” and
“broadcasting,” and is de ned as the distribution of audio or video  les, such as
radio programs or music clips, over the Internet. This is accomplished by using one
of two syndication techniques that allow users to access media on such portable
media devices as the iPod and laptop computers.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom are Web content syndication formats
written in XML that provide either podcast content or summaries that link to
content and additional  le information.
Podcast is a feed of audio or video  les placed on the Internet for public access.
Anyone can subscribe to the feed and download the media  les. This allows
you to collect programs from a wide range of sources for listening or viewing
media content, either online or o ine with your computer or an appropriate
portabledevice.
Podcatcher refers to a software application that enables the download of podcasts.
It typically runs in the background, managing feeds that you add manually and
downloads each at a speci ed interval.
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