I've been slowly working my way towards starting a podcast. I know my theme and I have ideas for the first couple episodes, but I'm looking for more in-depth guides through the technical parts of the process. I can research and find open source audio editors, I have access to a good mic setup, and I can write a script, record it, and edit it. My concern is more of the release side. I'm aware that the podcast ecosystem runs via RSS, but I'm looking for a sort of walkthrough of this last leg of the process. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

Most people use a podhosting service like Podbean, iTunes, or Spotify. Sadly, that’s where you need to go for most normies to find you.

That said, there is an open source self-hosting option that ties in with the fediverse called castopod which is really easy to use and looks nice. Iirc they can also tie into other platforms (don’t quote me on that), but I never really needed to when I was hosting mine.

Don't you think the market is kinda saturated?

A podcast is basically a blog with RSS feed where all the entries are audio files. So in theory you could do it that way it's probably be a bit of a job to set up, then serving the files would take a fair bit of bandwidth (if it gets even moderately popular), encoding to something like OPUS format might help if playback support in podcast players is widespread (MP3, AAC or OGG Vorbis might be a better fallback.

The audio editor I would choose is Audacity it's been the gold standard for a free audio recorder/editor for years.

Careful with hosted podcasting services terms and conditions they can be restrictive with what you can do with your podcast later.

It's actually pretty easy if you can get a website running with WordPress (lots of easy options out there).

All you need to do once you have that element sorted you can link spotify, iTunes, etc.to.your site (you just need a login) and you're away.

Over covid my wife and I podcasted for our own pleasure (and the mild amusement of our mates) and all I needed was some managed hosting and an internet connection to get it running.

Why do you care? If OP wants to podcast why shouldn't they?

Thank you. Aside from your point @ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk which I agree with, money isn't what motivates me to do things, and I like to write and would like to share my thoughts, ideas, and analysis.

@Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml

Thank you!

Why do you care about what I think?

Have fun 👍

It just seemed an unnessecary remark to make, and I've been put off doing things because of comments like that enough that I felt a counter would have been a nice thing to see.

If there's one thing the world doesn't need it's another up and coming podcaster.

I'd rather that than some miserable cunt telling people not to do things they enjoy.

Thanks for your input!