Managing your Podcast

Owned by Jonathan Warner (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Mar 14, 2019
3 min read

EzyStream allows you to publish a Podcast through to services to like Apple's Podcast platform from your existing media library. This is a powerful tool as one upload of your media can be published to your app, website (or website iframe), and to your podcast, all with one action.

Important Differences between Podcasts and your Main Media Library

It's important to understand the differences in how your Media Library is managed, and how Podcasts can be managed separately.

Your Media Library allows you to add several types of media, in a Series/Episode structure. However, your podcast is essentially a single series, with only episodes. Therefore the management of how that list of episodes is managed differs from what you see in your Media Library.

While your Media Library is managed by accessing Manage Menu > Media, your Podcast is managed by accessing Manage Menu > Podcast.

Ensure your Podcast is setup

Setup your podcast to publish to an external service. You can learn how to do that here.

Adding Audio Episodes to your Podcast

There are two ways you can add media to your podcast:

Option One: Add episodes to your Podcast from existing episodes currently stored in your Media Library.

EzyStream offers you the ability to create a separate list of episodes to show in your podcast, rather than just publishing all media in your library.

This allows you the option to:

  • Change the name and synopsis of each episode within the Podcast display.
    (Your episode may be called 'Week One' within a series 'Relationships' in your Media Library, but because you can't see the name of the series within your Podcast, you may choose to rename this to 'Relationships: Week One' for your Podcast episode only.)
  • Manage the order of your podcast list of episodes by controlling the publish date.

If your media already exists in your media library, and you wish to add it to your podcast:

  1. Login to the EzyStream Dashboard,
  2. Browse to the Manage Menu, and select Podcasts (If this option does not exist, please check your account subscription, or contact EzyStream Help),
  3. Click (plus) Episode,
  4. In the first field, 'Media to Use', start to type the name of your episode. This searches the episodes already available in your media library.
  5. Click the episode you wish to use, and the details of that episode will populate the rest of the form.
  6. Edit the rest of the form with any changes you wish to make specific to your Podcast. Changes made here will not effect your media library information, and will only show within your Podcast feed.
  7. Click Submit.

Note: Episodes will be ordered by 'Publish Date' within you feed.

Option Two: Add to Podcast during your initial upload to your Media Library

If you are uploading your media for the first time to your media library, you can avoid having to add the episode to your Podcast list as a second step.

  1. Browse to your Media Library (Manage Menu > Media)
  2. Click (plus) Media and upload your media as normal.
  3. When entering the Episode Information, click 'Add to Podcast'.
  4. When you Submit your episode, your Title and Synopsis is automatically copied to your Podcast list.

Editing Audio Episodes to your Podcast

If you wish to edit an episode within your Podcast, you must do this in your Podcast list. Changes to your Media Library will not automatically flow through to your Podcast.

  1. Browse to your Podcast list (Manage > Podcasts)
  2. Browse down the list of episodes in your Podcast and click 'Edit' on the episode you wish to change
  3. Change the details of your podcast episode.
  4. Click Submit.

Note: Changes made to your Podcast, in the Podcast section will not flow through to your Media Library.




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