Software for Podcasting

There are many podcast software programs available for use and more are being created everyday, many of which are even free. Because of the decentralized, acceptance of podcasting, a wide variety of programs are available; from large programs with a big footprint that do many different jobs, to tiny little software packages that do minimum jobs.

Most of the podcast softwares are designed for online, while some are for home user computers. Feed subscribers also have the opportunity of viewing podcast from their web browser with software packages that contain both feed reader like the home user software does, but also incorporate a way to view or listen to the podcasts online from inside the browser. List of podcast software can be found in podcast directories that maintain podcast feeds.

Another type of online podcast software is the feed creators. The PHP scripting is used in creating the RSS file and it informs the feed readers where to download the podcasts from. The scripting can either make a virtual copy or create a hard copy of the RSS file and write it to the server disk when the feed is updated.

If generated virtually, the RSS file doesn't really exist on the host's server, instead, the address of the PHP script is distributed as the address of the feed. When accessed, the script looks at the recent posts at the site, generates the file and sends the results to the feed subscriber.