I must admit , when I first heard about the podcast creation toolCast Easy ( ) , I was disbelieving . Cast Easy ’s Web web site does n’t put up much entropy beyond its slogan , “ Podcast Publishing Reborn . ” And after all , how many more audio applications do we want ? I ’m enough felicitous with my current podcasting Seth - up , recording and editing inDigidesign ’s Pro Tools . So why would I needanotherprogram , even if , like Cast Easy , it cost only $ 20 ?
Then again , I missed the main part of Cast Easy ’s motto : publishing . Because that ’s exactly what the program does quite well .
Cast Easy publishes podcasts with great repose . It takes the drudgery of podcast creation — putting in ID3 tag in iTunes , manually uploading a podcast to a vane server , and making sure the XML files are configured properly — out of the equating . Currently , to push a Macworld Podcast live , I have to perform these tasks foreveryepisode . Using Cast Easy , however , all I have to do is set up the info once ; Cast Easy remember it for future podcasts , streamline the entire summons .
Cast Easy has also done quite a job to make the interface as Mac - friendly as possible . Even from the opening screen , it evokes GarageBand with its minor icon and adjacent right - aligned text . And just like iWeb , Cast Easy allows you to incorporate individual episodes inside of slap-up podcasts , just like item-by-item page inside whole Web web site .
Cast Easy is very easy to use and very self - explanatory . Click through from the main screen to start a new podcast and fill out the Podcast Info and all the other domain . This information will be deliver for your podcast as a whole ; each single episode can be given the appropriate episode - specific information , with the recur information generated automatically .
After clicking through in the Add Episode cover , you ’ll regain that Cast Easy corroborate audio , video , and PDF ( who has a PDF podcast ? ) podcasts . So for all of you podcasters out there who are exploring different culture medium , you’re able to keep the publication prospect right in one place .
Probably the in force feature of speech of Cast Easy is its power to save server data . From the File menu , prefer Preferences . Then under the Servers tab , tick the positive sign at the bottom . Cast Easy supports many unlike types of waiter , include .Mac , FTP , SFTP , WebDAV , or even to a folder for offline publication . Once the server entropy is set up and your podcast information and episode are also localise up properly , you just have to click Publish Podcasts in the principal screen — off they go to the iTunes Music Store or wherever else you have them set to print .
I was so impressed with Cast Easy that I may start using it as part of my workflow for bring about the Macworld Podcast . Having to retype ID3 tags over and over again is not my idea of a good clock time .
