A live show reaches the people listening at that moment. A podcast reaches everyone else. On Wrencast, you no longer have to choose between them: your live shows can be recorded and turned into podcast episodes automatically.
How it works
- Create a show in Podcasts, if you haven't already. Give it a title, artwork and a category; it gets a feed you can submit to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other podcast apps.
- Switch on Record my live shows, and choose the show recordings go into.
- Go live as you normally would — from your browser, the Mac app or your broadcasting software.
When you finish, the recording becomes an episode of your show within about ten minutes, titled with the presenter's name and the date.
Review first, or publish straight away
By default, each recorded episode waits for you to review it. It sits in your show marked Waiting for review, where you can listen, change the title and description, and press Publish now. Nothing reaches podcast apps until you do.
If you'd rather not, switch on Publish as soon as the show ends, and each episode goes out on its own.
Skip the false starts
Sound checks and shows that end after a minute shouldn't become episodes. Recordings shorter than a length you choose — ten minutes, unless you change it — are kept out of your feed.
A few things to know
- Turning recording on restarts your station's audio, so listeners hear a few seconds of silence. It can't be changed while someone is live.
- Recordings are MP3s at 128 kbps, the format every podcast app plays.
- Once a recording has become an episode, the raw recording is removed, so recordings don't fill your storage.
- Recording needs a plan with both live broadcasting and podcasts.
Make the episodes worth subscribing to
A three-hour show with music you don't have the rights to podcast won't work as an episode. Talk shows, interviews and specialist shows with commentary work best. If your show is mostly music, check your licences cover on-demand listening — many radio licences don't.
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