Thanks a lot, Karen, for this lovely 😍 post, it's really 👌 ❤ so handy. I saved this post to follow step-by-step for adding voiceover and podcasts for my newsletter .Much needed and appreciated 🙏.
Thanks for this! I have been quite erratic in doing voiceovers, but I started going back to do older newsletters recently and I was trying to work out how to put it into the podcast tab. So frustrating we can't do it without creating new posts! Thanks for doing the heavy lifting on researching this, though!
You're very welcome, Katie! Happy to know writing it up has been useful to someone :) AFAIK, attaching audio to the old posts WILL still get it into your podcast RSS feed file. So if you have external podcasts synched (Apple, Spotify, ...), it will get there, within a day or so. It just won't show on the Podcast tab. (Not sure how many people actually use that?)
I just started podcasting in August, so a lot of this has been new to me, too. Just this month I picked up a tool that I'm going to use to clean up the noise on my first audio tracks ... now that I have a condenser mic and know the sound can be so much better, it's kind of embarrassing how noisy my first recordings were ;)
I learned this week that Spotify statistics for posts synched from Substack can be viewed in Spotify. You just need to create a Spotify account that uses the same email address as you list in your newsletter Settings for RSS feed email address, then 'claim' the podcast.
If you already have a Spotify account under a different email address, you'll need to update the RSS feed email in your Settings to match, and wait for the .RSS file to be refreshed to show the new email address. (Or you can change the email address on your Spotify account.)
Then contact Spotify support to 'claim' the podcast as yours. The bot routed me quickly to human chat, where they were very responsive and helpful.
Thanks a lot, Karen, for this lovely 😍 post, it's really 👌 ❤ so handy. I saved this post to follow step-by-step for adding voiceover and podcasts for my newsletter .Much needed and appreciated 🙏.
This is a very detailed article on adding audios and podcasting. I have to re-visit it and take notes. thank you.
Thanks for this! I have been quite erratic in doing voiceovers, but I started going back to do older newsletters recently and I was trying to work out how to put it into the podcast tab. So frustrating we can't do it without creating new posts! Thanks for doing the heavy lifting on researching this, though!
You're very welcome, Katie! Happy to know writing it up has been useful to someone :) AFAIK, attaching audio to the old posts WILL still get it into your podcast RSS feed file. So if you have external podcasts synched (Apple, Spotify, ...), it will get there, within a day or so. It just won't show on the Podcast tab. (Not sure how many people actually use that?)
I just started podcasting in August, so a lot of this has been new to me, too. Just this month I picked up a tool that I'm going to use to clean up the noise on my first audio tracks ... now that I have a condenser mic and know the sound can be so much better, it's kind of embarrassing how noisy my first recordings were ;)
Have you tried adobe’s podcast tool? It’s amazing. It works miracles on audio files. I think it can be used for free too.
I learned this week that Spotify statistics for posts synched from Substack can be viewed in Spotify. You just need to create a Spotify account that uses the same email address as you list in your newsletter Settings for RSS feed email address, then 'claim' the podcast.
If you already have a Spotify account under a different email address, you'll need to update the RSS feed email in your Settings to match, and wait for the .RSS file to be refreshed to show the new email address. (Or you can change the email address on your Spotify account.)
Then contact Spotify support to 'claim' the podcast as yours. The bot routed me quickly to human chat, where they were very responsive and helpful.
I haven’t dove this deep into it yet.
There’s value in creating different but intersectional content for podcasts that is separate from audio read to them.