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Justin Valiquette emailed us an excellent question which I will share with everyone.

I have an existing Podcast that is registered with iTunes already. To create this podcast, I used the difficult method of creating a blog, and a feedburner account to create the .xml feed. I want to begin using Podcast Maker from now on. Also, I just purchased new hosting space that I want to transfer all our existing podcasts to, and put all the new ones on.

How can I create new podcasts using Podcast Maker that will register under the same podcast title on iTunes so people don’t have to re-subscribe.

Thanks,
Justin

The nice thing about FeedBurner is that it acts as a layer between your real feed and your listeners. So even if your real feed moves, all you have to do is point FeedBurner to the new feed and your listeners won’t even know that the switch happened. There are two parts to this move. Publishing your new feed, and reconfiguring FeedBurner.

Part 1 - Publishing Your New Feed

To publish the new feed, open up Podcast Maker and choose File then Import Podcast Feed in the menus.

Put in your current feed URL in the dialog that pops up.

After you hit the Import button you will see a new document with your podcast. Now, if you don’t need to move all your existing media files from its current location, all you have to do at this point is hit the Publish button and upload your feed to the new server. Move on to Part 2 if this is you.

If you also want to move all of your media files to the new server, transfer all those files to a new directory on the new server using your favorite FTP program. Make sure that it’s accessible from a web browser.

In Podcast Maker, choose each episode and look at its Basic tab. At the bottom you will see a URL in the Location field. Edit the URL of each episode to match your new server’s URL.

Now publish your feed. You are almost done. You just need a simple configuration change in FeedBurner.

Part 2 - Configure FeedBurner

1. Login to FeedBurner and choose the feed that you are moving.
2. Click on Edit Feed Details…
3. Put in your new feed URL in the Original Feed field.

After this maneuver it will be easy to publish new episodes since you will be using Podcast Maker. The best part is that nobody will know that you changed anything.

Thank you Justin for the excellent question.

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