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About Podcast Settings

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Last Updated: January 8, 2008 11:42 AM

In Quick Blogcast, you can establish general podcast settings to use when adding a new podcast entry instead of having to enter the information each time.

To Set Your General Podcast Settings

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. In the My Products section, click Quick Blogcast.
  3. In the Quick Blogcast Account list, click Manage Account next to the account you want to modify.
  4. From the Manage Blog menu, click Settings.
  5. Select the Podcasts tab.
  6. In the General Podcast Settings area, complete the following fields:
    Explicit
    Select Yes if your podcasts contain explicit content or No if they do not.
    Show Times Played
    Select Yes if you want your podcasts to display how many times they've been played or No if you do not.
    Language
    Select the language of your podcast
    iTunes® Category
    Select the category the podcast episode falls under.
    iTunes Subtitle (optional)
    Specify the subtitle for the name of your podcast episode. You enter the title when adding a podcast.
    iTunes Summary/Channel Description (optional)
    In this field, enter a summary of the podcast or additional comments you want to include about it.
    Channel Image(jpeg) (optional)
    To specify an image to use by default for your podcast episodes, click Browse, and then locate and open the file.
    Current Feed Image
    Select whether to delete the displayed image or use it as the default feed image.
  7. Click Apply or set your Default ID3 Settings.

To Set ID3 Tag Preferences

You can also set the default settings for ID3 tags, which lists information about the file. For more information on this topic, see Setting and Editing ID3 Tags and Preferences.

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. In the My Products section, click Quick Blogcast.
  3. In the Quick Blogcast Account list, click Manage Account next to the account you want to modify.
  4. From the Manage Blog menu, click Settings..
  5. Select the Podcasts tab.
  6. In the Default ID3 Settings area, enter your information in the following fields:
    Copyright
    In the field, specify the copyright information you want to use for each podcast episode.
    Podcaster
    In the field, specify the name of the person who created the podcast episode.
    Album Info
    In the field, specify information you want to include about the album.
    Composer
    In the field, specify the name of the composer.
  7. Click Apply.

The Podcast Statistics tab lists information about the number of podcast episodes you uploaded and their popularity ranking. For more information about Podcast Statistics, see About Podcast Statistics.