Steinberg WaveLab 6 Addendum Manual

Addendum: Podcast 

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Podcasting 

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Podcasting
Introduction
Podcasting is a method of distributing multimedia files 
over the Internet, e. g. for playback on mobile devices and 
personal computers. A Podcast can be downloaded auto-
matically, using software capable of reading RSS feeds. 
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a standard for dis-
tributing news and other information via the Internet.
An RSS news feed sends short messages on a certain 
topic (e. g. sports, music, etc.), made available from a web 
site. In order to read the...

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The Podcast window
A Podcast window including four episodes.
The Podcast window is divided into two panes. The lower 
pane shows an item list of the basic feed and all episodes 
included in the Podcast. 
The upper pane shows the information for the feed or an 
episode, depending on the item selected in the list below. 
This is where you will be adding files, Internet links or tex-
tual information to the Podcast feed and its episodes.
Adding, moving and deleting episodes
There are two ways...

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These settings are available for episodes:
Please note the following:
When using HTML files and publishing the Podcast, any 
picture files that may be referenced by the HTML file will 
automatically be uploaded without any intervention (for 
this to work, HTML files should be in unicode utf-8 or 
Windows Latin code 1252 format).
All fields support WaveLab Essentials Default text vari-
ables from the Options menu (more information on user 
variables can be found in the Operation Manual).
It...

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The following options are available:
Publishing the Podcast
When you are finished with adding files and information to 
your feed and episodes, you can directly publish the Pod-
cast to the Internet from within WaveLab Essential, using 
the built-in FTP client.
The requirement for this to work of course is, that you 
must have some webspace with an FTP account for it in 
order to upload data, so that you can make your Podcast 
available at a publicly accessible Internet address.
FTP site...

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Following upload functions are available:
ÖPlease note that when we say all items, we in fact 
mean all items which have their Enabled checkbox acti-
vated in the item list. If not enabled, these episodes are 
simply omitted from the Podcast.
ÖUploading happens in a separate background pro-
cess, so that you can continue working in WaveLab Es-
sential, in case uploading takes time.
Checking the Podcast
Selecting View XML source document... from the Pod-
cast window’s Publish menu launches...

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Podcasting
Einführung
Podcasting ist eine Methode für die Verteilung von Multi-
media-Dateien über das Internet, die z. B. für die Wieder-
gabe auf mobilen Geräten und PCs verwendet werden 
können. Ein Podcast kann mit Hilfe einer Software, die 
sog. «RSS-Feeds» lesen kann, automatisch heruntergela-
den werden. RSS ist eine Abkürzung für Really Simple 
Syndication und ist Standard für die Distribution von 
Nachrichten und anderen Informationen via Internet.
Ein RSS Nachrichten-Feed sendet dabei kurze...