Help for Podcasters, radio and streaming

Publish podcasts, radio and streams with Exponential: audio and video, feeds, embeds, show notes, scheduling and rights.

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Podcasters, radio and streaming: start here Where podcasters, radio producers and streamers start. What an Exponential site does for a show - media hos...
What Exponential does for a show A map of what an Exponential site can do for a podcast, a radio program or a video channel - media hosting,...
What is not built in The honest list of what an Exponential site does not do for a podcast or a stream - no transcoding, no live...
How a show maps to content How a podcast, a radio program or a video series becomes content in Exponential - the show as a folder, sea...
The media field and the file field The two field types that hold audio and video in Exponential - the media datatype (ezmedia) with its player...
The podcast feed explained What the Apple Podcasts export of Exponential writes, element by element - the channel from the export's po...

Choosing a class for episodes

Which content class to use for podcast and video episodes - the Video class, the Audio and NG Video classes of media site installations, the File class, or a class of your own - with the fields each one has and what…
Building an episode class

A suggested content class for podcast or video episodes, built only from datatypes Exponential ships - title, show notes, audio or video, artwork, guests, release date, transcript, license - with the settings that make…
Setting up the show structure

Step by step - create the folders for a show, its seasons and its guests in the content tree, describe the show on its folder, decide where the audio files live, and check that the structure matches the feed you will…
Working with your administrator

What a show needs from the site's administrator, and the exact settings behind each request - feed permissions, audio formats, upload class mapping, download behavior, scheduling cronjobs, upload limits and embed…
Uploading audio

How to put an episode's audio on the site - prepare the file, upload it in the episode's edit form or on the upload page, choose the player options, and check the file type and size that the podcast feed will announce.
Uploading video

How to put a video episode on the site - when to upload the file and when to host it on a video service, the Video class and its Html5 Video player, MP4 and WebM, sizes and the checks after publishing.

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