This extension finally brings Podcast functionality to Typo3. It supports more than one Podcast and it's handy integrated in Typo3. Podcasts are published as static xml files over a backend module instead of a dynamic output. The extension uses flexforms to add new Podcast-Episodes. You can add an image that will be shown in iTunes or any other podcast-software if it supports images.

It's also seamlessly integrated into the fe_mp3player extension by Jean-David Gadina. This allows you to play your Podcasts over a flash-player in the FrontEnd of the website.

Podcasts can be optimized for iTunes and offer most of the features you might request. It now supports othe formats than mp3 too! It includes a handy list view if you open a page with Podcasts over the web-module, for this reason you don't have to switch to the list view manually all the time.

The word ”podcast” is a concatenation of the words iPod and broadcast. The underlying technology used for Podcasts, called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is capable of containing any type of media including audio, video, graphics, and more.

Podcasting is a way of publishing Podcasts to the web, allowing people to subscribe to a Podcast and receive new ”episodes” automatically through an RSS feed. Podcasting consists of publishing XML files which contain references to media (called “enclosures”) to a website. Podcast aggregators (often called “podcatchers”), then read these XML files and download all the linked enclosures.

Unlike terrestrial and Internet radio, Podcasts are time-shifted, meaning that listeners have control over when and where they hear their favorite programming. And, the episodes are delivered automatically to a subscriber on iTunes so the latest updates are always readily available with no effort required by the listener.

Podcasts offer iTunes users and iPod owners the same freedom and level of control they are familiar with when listening to their own personal music collections. (Source: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/faq.html)