A podcast is a digital media files, or a collection of such related files, which is distributed over the Internet using the feeds from syndication for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The term, as radio , or may refer to content itself or the method by which is syndicated, the last also called podcasting. Call the host or author of a podcast often a podcaster.

Although podcasters 'web sites may also offer direct transfer or flow directly from its content, a podcast is distinguished from other digital media formats by its ability to be syndicated, subscribed to and downloaded automatically when it adds new content, using a reader or aggregator of food can feed reading formats such as RSS or atom.

Podcasting is not just for emissions under way, and not the term is used to record everything and anything to be read in a digital music player. Sound see is the audio recording of a person d 'travel experience. Museums are making their trips audio podcast available for download, and art students and professors are creating their own unauthorized , and often most controversial stories of famous works of art.