I’m going ahead and running a “real” podcast on our Castopod instance, along with members Serena and Max. These are going to be some ongoing notes of initial setup and anything that I come across.
After having an account, there isn’t a link to the admin interface anywhere at the root home page of Castopod. So here’s a link https://podcasts.cosocial.ca/cp-auth/login.
Create a new podcast
- need a bunch of things LINK TO SETUP SCREENSHOTS
- it will remain in “draft” mode until it is published, at which point it is live and announced on the fediverse, so the most crucial thing is that you are OK with the username, which will look like
@(shortusername)@podcasts.cosocial.ca
See the unnamedgoodpod home page, which is also what you can plug into Mastodon to find the profile for following:
https://podcasts.cosocial.ca/@unnamedgoodpod/
Create a person and add to Podcast
Separately from your Castopod account, you need to add “Persons” https://podcasts.cosocial.ca/cp-admin/persons/new.
And then Manage persons to add to the podcast https://podcasts.cosocial.ca/cp-admin/podcasts/6/persons. There are a HUGE number of roles related to a podcast, basically like an IMDB / casting page.
Note: permission on a Podcast only gives people “Podcaster” roles. Only “Manager” roles can create / edit people. I ended up giving Max & Serena Admin on the podcast, and then added Manager so they can edit their own People entries.
–WIP, notes will continue–