Title: Problems getting started
Last modified: October 12, 2024

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# Problems getting started

 *  Resolved Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-14303347)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-getting-started-4/)
 * Hi SSP team,
 * Thank you for making this podcasting plugin available.
 * I am not sure I understand how to use it without Castos, uploading audio files
   to wordpress.
 * What I would like to do is provide author read blog articles, starting a blog
   post with the audio player, then comes the text. And additionally distribute 
   the audio to podcast platforms for listening and discovery.
 * As I am blogging in three languages from one wordpress installation, I have created
   3 podcast shows in parallel to the 3 head blog categories (English, French, Italian),
   and activated in the settings to use your podcasting plugin for posts. I also
   found the language settings – very nice.
 * Now, on a single post level in the Gutenberg editor, the three podcast categories
   appear in addition to the blog categories, and below the content I can upload
   an mp3 file. Does it suffice to upload an audiofile here to a post and click 
   one of the podcast shows?
 * And once one episode per show is live, will the podcast be distributed automatically
   to the selected platforms?
 * What audio quality do you recommend for MP3 files to distribute. What is a good
   standard to start podcasting? MP3 at 160 kbps?
 * Thank you for a clarification.
 * Kind regards,
 * Nicole
 * p.s.: A feature request: please make a lower than 1.0 audio playback speed available.
   This may be useful for non-native speakers in an international context. Thank
   you
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fproblems-getting-started-4%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-14303347)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-getting-started-4/#post-18073638)
 * Hi SSP team,
 * If I wanted the episode title and description that is distributed to podcast 
   platforms to differ from the long-form blog article it is related to, could I
   use the episodes-section in the plugin to do that, and then pull the episode 
   with the player block into the blog article?
 * Thanks,
 * Nicole
 *  Plugin Author [Serhiy Zakharchenko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zahardoc/)
 * (@zahardoc)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-getting-started-4/#post-18075991)
 * Hi @nmschaller ,
 * Is there any specific reason to use Seriously Simple Podcasting (SSP) for regular
   posts on your site? If not, I recommend using **SSP episodes** for your audio
   content and sticking to **standard posts** for your text-based blog content. 
   In this case, you’ll need to uncheck all the boxes in Podcasting -> Settings -
   > General -> Podcast post types.
 * For your multilingual podcasts, I suggest creating three separate podcast feeds
   for English, French, and Italian.
 * Regarding **audio quality**, 160 kbps is indeed a good choice. For **playback
   speed** – our player currently supports playback speeds ranging from **0.4x to
   2.0x**.
 * As for your question about differing episode titles and descriptions: if you 
   use standard posts for your long-form blog articles and SSP episodes for your
   podcast audio, you can have separate titles and descriptions for each.
 * I hope this helps!
 * Best regards,
   Serhiy.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-14303347)
 * [1 year, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-getting-started-4/#post-18076428)
 * Thank you, [@zahardoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zahardoc/) , I’ll 
   try that.

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