It is well known to all of us that podcast is a system for distributing audio/video material by using the Internet and listening to it on a portable device or a computer. With the podcast, you may generate news that can be listened to hastily. Sometimes you just want to easily record your own podcast for uploading or record an existing podcast on iTunes with the best quality, yet you find that the task of recording a podcast can be extremely daunting. Later, you just follow your friend's advice and you just get a device to record your desired podcast, a microphone and a set of headphones to monitor/manage the recording. Yet the quality is not very desirable. Finally you have to find the solution over the internet, and the podcast recording software would yield significantly better results with the best quality. Of greater significance, is that you could find that the task of recording a podcast might be very simple rather than daunting. It simply requires that you follow the right steps in the right order.

Part 1: How to record a Podcast on iPhone for uploading to iTunes

For people with iPhone, podcast is one popular way to get news or stay in tune with current affairs and their favorite artists. iTunes could make podcasts to be accessible by everyone easily, so getting your podcast listed on iTunes would undoubtedly offer you more subscribers than ever before. As we all known that Apple includes a built-in digital voice recorder in the iPhone. Here we would like to detail the approach to make podcasts.

Step 1: Start Voice Memos app

Just tap the "Voice Memos" icon on the Home screen or in the Utilities folder, where it typically hangs out, pops up the microphone.

Launch Voice Memos

Step 2: Hold the Micophone close, but not be in close proximity

Hold the phone about four fingers' width away from the side of your mouth, preferably at a bit of an angle. If you want to start speaking and then you may need to push the red button and wait a few seconds. When you're finished, also wait a few seconds and tap "Done" button.

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Step 3: Save recordings on iPhone

Save it with a name you'll recognize and tap "Save" button. You could view your memo in the list of recordings.

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Step 4: Log in iTunes Podcast Connect

Have one active Apple ID to submit podcasts to the iTunes Store podcast directory and sign in to iTunes Podcast Connect directly. And then you may click the iTunes Connect Add podcast button at the top left of the interface. (If you do this on computer, you need firstly to transfer voice memos to computer with Leawo iTransfer. You could view how to transfer )

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Step 5: Submit Podcast RSS feed

There's the pop-up text box where you could enter your RSS feed and then click the "Validate" button easily. You could review your podcast information by the pop-up "Feed Preview" window to validate your podcast feed, and then click the "Submit" button if the information within the "Feed Preview" is correct.

Step 6: Just wait for approval patiently.

As soon as you successfully submit your podcast, it would be reviewed by the iTunes staff before being published. Generally, it would take up to 10 days, though most submissions are approved within 3 days and sometimes only a few hours. If your podcast is approved you would receive the email of the address from Apple, and open the message that would include your own unique iTunes subscribe URL. Just directly copy this URL and save it into the PowerPress settings > iTunes tab part in the "iTunes Subscribe URL" field.

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Part 2: How to record a Podcast on PC for uploading with Leawo Music Recorder

The steps on how to record a podcast on iPhone for uploading to iTunes seem a little trivial. Here we would go on learning more about instructions. By using the powerful Leawo Music Recorder, you may find that the whole recording process would be much easier.

Step 1: Download and open Leawo Music Recorder on your desktop.

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Step 2: Choose audio source

If you want to record a podcast on pc for uploading, you might need to click the "Audio Source" button in the lower-left corner of the interface and then choose "Record Computer Audio" in the pop-up Audio Source settings window. If you want to record podcast by yourself for uploading, then you may choose "Record Audio Input."

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Step 3: Choose your specified output recording settings

Next to the "Audio Source" tab is the "General" tab where you could also set the output directory to your computer and the audio setting like bit rate, and then you could save the output recordings as MP3 or WAV file under the "Format" tab.

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Step 4: Start to record

Just start to record by clicking the big red "Record" button. And the audio recording would be listed in the interface in the library.

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Step 5: Manually edit if necessary

The useful program could automatically download and add music tags like artist, album, title, album artwork and so on. Just select the "Edit Music Tags" option to edit music tags by right clicking the selected audio file.

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Part 3: How to record an existing Podcast on iTunes with Leawo Music Recorder

If you want to record an existing podcast to iTunes, you could also make use of Leawo music recorder to do the Podcast recording on your computer. It could not only record audio from built-in input, but also record computer audio streams.

Step 1: Choose audio source

Click the "Audio Source" button in the bottom left corner of the interface > choose "Record Computer Audio" in the pop-up Audio Source settings window.

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Step 2: Customize output podcast recording settings

Besides the "Audio Source" tab is the "General" tab where you could also choose the output folder, and then you could choose the output profile as MP3 or WAV file under the "Format" tab.

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Step 3: Begin to record and view the podcast recording listed in the interface

Click the "Record" button to start recording. And you could see the podcast recording in the library.

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Step 4: Add recorded existing podcast to iTunes

The powerful program could help you to apply recorded podcast to iTunes music library or your playlists in one click. And then you could easily enjoy them on iTunes.

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After recording, you could open the folder that saves your recordings and then upload to iTunes Podcast Store according to the method mentioned above.