I had been looking for ways to add extra pizazz to my blogs and sites, and have only just got into audio and podcasts. Podcasts seem to rank well in SEO. I started by reading a couple of my articles to create a soundfile (using Audacity shareware) and LAME shareware as the format converter to.mp3. It was all easy to set up. The results were passable, and I quickly learned how to edit/splice the sound files using Audacity (after getting tired of umpteen re-takes).
Then I looked more closely at WordPress and discovered that I couldn’t just load and go. I dug around and came across a number of articles referring to WordPress plugins such as Cool Player and Anarchy Media Player. I didn’t feel like setting up yet another plug in, with the attendant danger of the software becoming unsupported and so on (lorelle’s WordPress blog was very informative).
So, I got to thinking. I’d just posted a podcast on Podbean and wondered whether I could make use of that. And I did, though it only appears to work on WordPress blogs which are not hosted by WordPress themselves.
