Problems getting started

  • Resolved nmschaller

    (@nmschaller)


    1 month, 1 week ago

    Hi SSP team,

    Thank you for making this podcasting plugin available.

    I am not sure I understand how to use it without Castos, uploading audio files to wordpress.

    What I would like to do is provide author read blog articles, starting a blog post with the audio player, then comes the text. And additionally distribute the audio to podcast platforms for listening and discovery.

    As I am blogging in three languages from one wordpress installation, I have created 3 podcast shows in parallel to the 3 head blog categories (English, French, Italian), and activated in the settings to use your podcasting plugin for posts. I also found the language settings – very nice.

    Now, on a single post level in the Gutenberg editor, the three podcast categories appear in addition to the blog categories, and below the content I can upload an mp3 file. Does it suffice to upload an audiofile here to a post and click one of the podcast shows?

    And once one episode per show is live, will the podcast be distributed automatically to the selected platforms?

    What audio quality do you recommend for MP3 files to distribute. What is a good standard to start podcasting? MP3 at 160 kbps?

    Thank you for a clarification.

    Kind regards,

    Nicole

    p.s.: A feature request: please make a lower than 1.0 audio playback speed available. This may be useful for non-native speakers in an international context. Thank you

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  • Thread Starter nmschaller

    (@nmschaller)

    Hi SSP team,

    If I wanted the episode title and description that is distributed to podcast platforms to differ from the long-form blog article it is related to, could I use the episodes-section in the plugin to do that, and then pull the episode with the player block into the blog article?

    Thanks,

    Nicole

    Plugin Author Serhiy Zakharchenko

    (@zahardoc)

    Hi @nmschaller ,

    Is there any specific reason to use Seriously Simple Podcasting (SSP) for regular posts on your site? If not, I recommend using SSP episodes for your audio content and sticking to standard posts for your text-based blog content. In this case, you’ll need to uncheck all the boxes in Podcasting -> Settings -> General -> Podcast post types.

    For your multilingual podcasts, I suggest creating three separate podcast feeds for English, French, and Italian.

    Regarding audio quality, 160 kbps is indeed a good choice. For playback speed – our player currently supports playback speeds ranging from 0.4x to 2.0x.

    As for your question about differing episode titles and descriptions: if you use standard posts for your long-form blog articles and SSP episodes for your podcast audio, you can have separate titles and descriptions for each.

    I hope this helps!

    Best regards,
    Serhiy.

    Thread Starter nmschaller

    (@nmschaller)

    Thank you, @zahardoc , I’ll try that.

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