What do you know about podcasting? Take the podcast game and test your knowledge.

Question: Are there any restrictions in terms of size of podcasts?

Answer: There is no maximum or minimum when it comes to podcast size. Of course, larger files can intimidate listeners with a slow connection. Podcasts can be successful at all levels, in general, Podcaster wise balance of file size and quality of the show.

Question: What are the ID3 tags?

Answer: ID3 tags of the metadata that describe the content of the audio file (usually relate to the ID3 tags of MP3 files). ID3 tags generally contain information on the audio file, too, as the title of the audio file, artist, album, or other relevant information. There are speculations that the podcasting directories and search engines use the information collected from the ID3 tags to classify, search, podcasts, and group in the future.

Question: Podcasts are increasingly in RSS 2.0 format?

Answer: No, while RSS 2.0, the first version of the care facilities, RSS version 1 also contains an enclosure day for podcasting. Although courses supported podcasting RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 is by far the most popular format for podcasting. It is not only because of RSS 2.0 was the first standard to support these facilities, but also because Apple iTunes uses RSS 2.0 for its podcasts.

Question: Perhaps podcasts on a group of listeners?

Answer: Yes, there is no provision in the RSS 2.0 specification for the protection of passwords or files with any website, documents, podcasts by a password, a sub-directory. You can use all the security mechanisms on the HTTP server for the protection of all the feed or the actual audio file.

Question: Is there a fee that podcasts?

Answer: Yes, while the model is not adopted, some publishers have experimented with the tax, the “free” podcasts. Instead of taxes on advertising in podcasts, advertisers, publishers have financial podcasts in the audience for podcast content. Typically the audio file is password protected and only for the participants are able to download or play the file. The model is similar to the cable shows HBO / Showtime, where a fee for content. It is likely that education and language teaching podcasts adopt this model.

Question: What file types are allowed in a podcast?

Answer: It depends really on what your definition of “A podcast is. First, the term podcast meaning that all feed contains an audio file attachment. The use of the concept of podcast, and now many in the fashion that all feed contains a file in the box to a Podcast. In other words, many people use the term podcast on an RSS feed from a video file or Power Point presentation, or other dwelling.

Technically, you can just type in any file in the chassis. If you are in a traditional audio podcast, for compatibility with most podcasters either MP3 or M4A. The advantage of using an MP3 or M4A file is that both formats are also supported by iTunes, which allow people from their podcasts with iTunes and tag in the iTunes Music Store.