ePodcast Creator Reviewer's Comments
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With this program you can have it all – an audio recorder and editor, an RSS feed creator and an FTP client. ePodcast Creator easily takes our “TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award” for podcasting software.
Industrial Audio Software offers three products ePodcast Producer, ePodcast Creator and ePodcast Express. ePodcast Producer offers advanced tools, ePodcast Express simply helps with publishing. We evaluated ePodcast Creator that offers basic editing tools as well as publishing tools.
ePodcast Creator offers some of the best publishing tools available, including tag and feed creation and HTML and XML file generation. It can record in wav or mp3 format; can convert formats and supports iTunes tags and feeds. In addition, this software can record from almost anything and offers an extensive list of filtering tools.
This is a great program, but falls short of the top two products because it is a bit harder to use than Podcast Station and Propaganda.
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Recording/ Importing:
ePodcast can record from almost any source, including from a CD, line in, sound card or an aux supply. It can import wma, mp3 and wav files, so it is extremely compatible in terms of audio formats. However, it cannot pull sound from a video file or record VoIP interactions without an upgrade to the Producer program.
Editing:
This podcast software has more filters than any other program we reviewed, so if you are looking to clean up some audio or restore an old recording this is the best software for the job. It has notch, pop and plick removers and a record cleaner as well as a low pass filter and a noise reducer. Of course it can also trim or add silences.
ePodcast displays a waveform view and a VU meter and has a equalizer, a mixer and a track splitter. It includes basic effects, like amplify, bass boost, chorus, echo, fades, flange, normalize, pan and reverse.
If you need more advanced editing tools, like automatic gain controls, scrub settings, or more effects, consider Podcast Station, our #1 choice.
Publishing:
ePodcast Creator includes the best publishing tools available in podcast software, it has every tool you need to publish your podcasts onto your site, including an ftp program. With this program you can add tags (iTunes and ID3), descriptions and links. It can publish in wma, mp3 and wav format, can generate xml and html files and you can adjust the bitrate. With these abilities you should be able to easily publish, no matter what player or host you use.
Ease of Use:
Industrial Audio has made efforts to make this program as easy to use as possible and experienced podcasters should have no problem figuring out this program. However, we feel that inexperienced podcasters may be a bit confused about what different features do and it may require a bit of experimentation to become fluent in the program.
Help/Support:
If you need help with this program you can access embedded help through the program. Online Industrial Audio posts FAQs, tutorials and hosts a forum or you can contact them by email.
Summary:
ePodcast Creator is the best program for publishing and cleaning bad recordings; however, if you need advanced podcast production tools you may want to try Podcast Station or if you need time line/ story board editing try Propaganda.
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