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Upload your first episode

Supported formats, size limits, and what happens after you hit publish.

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Episodes belong to a show, so create a show first if you have not already.

Supported audio

FormatExtensionNotes
MP3.mp3Recommended — universal app support
AAC / M4A.m4aFully supported

The maximum file size is 2 GB. Audio is stored and served exactly as uploaded — there is no transcoding step, so your bitrate and loudness are preserved.

Aim for 96–128 kbps mono for talk shows. It is indistinguishable from higher bitrates for spoken word and downloads noticeably faster on a phone.

Episode fields

  • Title — shown in podcast apps and on the episode page
  • Description — supports basic formatting; this becomes the show notes
  • Audio file — the upload itself
  • Publish timing — now, or a specific future date and time

Episode statuses

Every episode is in exactly one of three states:

StatusMeaning
draftSaved, not in your feed, not publicly reachable
scheduledWill publish automatically at the set time
publishedLive in your feed and on your public page

What happens on publish

  1. The episode appears on your public show page
  2. It is added to your RSS feed
  3. Podcast apps pick it up on their next poll — usually within an hour

Deleting episodes

Episodes are never hard-deleted. Deleting removes an episode from your feed and public pages while preserving the record, so links that already exist in the world do not turn into broken URLs.

Removing a published episode from your feed does not remove it from listeners’ devices. Anyone who already downloaded it keeps their copy.