Publish an audio or podcast title

Use an audio title for a podcast episode, the radio call of a game, a sermon or an interview that doesn’t need pictures. It lives in the same catalogue as your videos, behind the same access rules, but opens a listening screen built for audio instead of a video player.

Publish an audio title

1. 1
   Upload the audio

   Put the file in Studio → Library → Media Library. Files ending in .mp3, .m4a, .wav or .ogg open as audio.

2. 2
   Start a title

   Go to Studio → Content → On-Demand, click New video, and fill in Title, Category, Short description and Description as you would for a video.

3. 3
   Pick the audio file

   In the Stream card, click Pick video under Video file. The picker lists audio files as well as videos — choose yours.

4. 4
   Add cover art

   Pick a Poster. It becomes the disc and the blurred background of the listening screen, so it matters more here than on a video.

5. 5
   Set access and save

   Choose Free or Subscription in the Access card, check that Active is on, and click SAVE CHANGES.

What listeners get

• Your cover art on a disc that spins while the audio plays and stops where it is when paused, over a blurred copy of the same artwork.
• A Now playing or Paused label above the title.
• A progress bar they can click or drag to any point, with elapsed and total time.
• A play/pause button, 15-second skips and volume control.
• A speed menu with seven playback speeds.

Publishing a podcast series

Publish each podcast episode as its own audio title and give them all the same category. The category pill on your on-demand page gathers them, and each episode’s recommendation rail reaches for the others first.