Chris: Thanks, this has been very helpful. Sorry for being a pain in the rear. Chuck Chuck Ayers Tulsa, Ok. USA Email: c.r.ayers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Voice Mail: 1 918 260 4729 Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~chuckayers/blogprince/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhead5@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:13 PM Subject: Re: Won't authenticate > Hi Chuck > > This is incorrect. > What you are going to need to do, is locate the rss feed of your blog. RSS > refers to really simple syndication, which is what makes a poddcast and a > blog work together hand in hand. > You will know it's the right kind of link when you see a link that ends in > a .rss, or .xml extention. Go to your blog provider's help section and you > can find this address. You then need to go to feedburner, and paste this > rss, or .xml link into the box on feedburner's page, and then feedburner > will then look to see if it can find any audio content on your blog, and it > will then turn any audio content you post to your blog as a > podcast. Feedburner will give you an address to use for your podcast. This > address is different than the one than you pasted in, yeah i know this is > starting to get confusing, stay with me here buddy!!! > But the link you give your podcast subscribers would look something like > http://feeds.feedburner.com/chuck > or whatever you'd like to call your podcast. You would do all this, so > that when you create a blog entry and then post a link to an audio file to > it, remember this is just a regular old link to the file, nothing special > about this, but when you post any audio to your blog, Feedburner will do a > check and it'll say oh! Chuck's got new stuff, I'm gonna podcast it! then > your podcast subscribers would get new stuff without having to download it > manually. > > I would say the bitrate of your file is a bit low for a podcast though. > Most portable audio players have trouble with audio content with a lower > bitrate like 20 k at 11025 hertz mono, so for best results, I would do a > file at 64k, 44.1 khz mono. Yes the files might be bigger in size, but > you'll be able to make sure that all your listeners will be able to take > the files you produce with them anywhere they go on any player they have. > I hope all this is helpful. If you have any questions, or if what I said > isn't making much sense, just write back and I'm sure others can help you > along. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > At 07:22 PM 12/2/2005, you wrote: > >List: > >After pasting a url feed in to Feed Burner, it wont authenticate or accept > >the feed url. Is there either a time limit or bit rate limit or what. > >Below is my url feed. Does it look right. I got it off the media player > >property register. > >Feed is: > ><http://home.earthlink.net/~blindsite/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/g oodnight.mp3>http://home.earthlink.net/~blindsite/sitebuildercontent/sitebui lderfiles/goodnight.mp3 > >The program is 10:42 minutes. 20 bps, 11025 hz. > >What do I do now? Help! > >Signed: Not Authenticated in Oklahoma. > > > > > >Chuck Ayers > >Tulsa, Ok. USA > >Email: > ><mailto:c.r.ayers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>c.r.ayers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Voice Mail: 1 918 260 4729 > >Website: > ><http://home.earthlink.net/~chuckayers/blogprince/>http://home.earthlink.ne t/~chuckayers/blogprince/ > > >