Episodes and Posts 2009-11-30 09:04 GMT

This page explains how to create podcast episodes or simple blog posts.

Add new episode / post

New episode can be added from administartion menu's New link. Add following information:

• Title - shows in listings.
• Description - (or content)
• Attachments - upload files or use some you have already uploaded. (See section "File types" below.)
• Image - Add image file show with the description. The image (jpg, png, gif) should already be square, otherwise it will be twisted. Troubadour will change it in 150x150 pixel size.
• Link - Links to other related resource in the internet, eg. home page of the event.
• Keywords - Keywords describing the content. If same serie has several episodes, it's good idea to combine them by a keyword, eg. by a name of the event.
• Organization - Given by default from your user profile, but can be changed when needed.
• Publish - Leave empty if you want to edit before publishing. If you are converting this to a presentation, don't publish yet, but after you're finished the presentation.

File types

Following file types have embedded player within web browser. Use exactly these file extension for these types:

• mp3 - mp3 audio file
• mp4 - H.264/MPEG-4 format video file
• flv - Flash video

If you want preview image for video files, upload png file which is named so that the original video file name is added .png extension. Eg. video.mp4 => video.mp4.png You don't need to attach the file to this episode, but you can just upload it as an orphan file.

Troubadour creates HTML 5 based embedded player for Ogg file formats, but they will be visible only for users of Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome browsers. Use following extensions:

• oga, ogg - Ogg Vorbis audio file
• ogv - Ogg Theora video file
• ogx - Ogg application

Also other file formats can be uploaded, eg. lecture slides, for which is recommended to use PDF file format.

Editing post

By Edit link in the administration navigation, you access a list of all epsidoes, and actions available for them.

• Edit - Edit episode or post.
• Conver to presentation - Create multimedia presentation.
• Delete - Remove episode or post.

Unpublished post can be previewed by clicking it's name in this list (colored grey). It is useful to leave unpublished especially during creating presentation.