This is the second of the overall 3-part posts about podcasting glossary. Here are the links to the first and third parts: Podcasting glossary I-H, R-Z.

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ID3 tag: Audio information contained withing MP3 files. Version 2 of ID3 tag allows more information than its previous version.

iPod: A digital media player from Apple.

iPodder: One of the earliest podcast aggregator or podcatching software.

iTunes: A standalone music and video management software for Apple Mac and PC. This software comes with iPod and also has the function to manage and sync files to iPod. Since version 4.9, iTunes supports podcasting directly.

Kilohertz (kHz): One thousand hertz. See Hertz.

Licensing: The legal arragement of which a music or audio creation can be used.

Loop: A short and repeat audio segment.

Mastering: The process of preparing and transferring recorded audio to a medium for future duplication.

MIDI: An acronym for Musical Instruments Digital Interface. MIDI is the standard for interconnections for multiple electronic instruments.

Mixboard: See mixer.

Mixer: A device that takes inputs, mixes them into a single stereo output.

Mixing: The process to put two or more sound tracks together and adjust them appropriately.

Monitor speakers: Or just speakers. A set of devices that convert electrical signals into audible sound.

Mono: A single-channel signal, where sound is rendered entirely the same for left and right channels in stereo systems.

MP3: A popular audio file format very common in storing music and songs for playback. MP3 is also the most commonly used format for podcasting.

MP4: A lossy audio compress format, also known as AAC.

Noise: Unwanted sound.

Noise floor: the lowest decibel of a signal which a system can render.

Nyquist frequency: The highest frequency that can be reproduced accurately when a signal is digitally encoded at a given sample rate. or half the sampling frequency.

Newbie: Slang word for someone who is new to particular topic.

Off axis: Speaking away from the microphone to reduce plosives.

Ogg Vorbis: An open-source audio file compression format, comparable to MP3.

OGG: See Ogg Vorbis.

Omnidirectional microphone: A type of microphone that can captures sound from all direction equally well.

OPML: An acronym for Outline Processor Markup Language, file format that is used to exchange outline-structured information such as a collection of (podcast) RSS feeds.

P2P: See Peer-to-Peer.

Peer-to-Peer: A computer network that allows each computer to communicate to each other instead of having to go through a central computer (server).

Phantom power: Power source through XLR cables. It is needed by condenser microphones that are not self-powered (using batteries).

Plosive: The sound pop that occurs when people speak the p or b sound into the microphone without a pop stopper. Also called a stop.

Plug-in: A piece of dependent program that adds or modifies the function of the main program.

Podcast: A method to publish and distribute multimedia files to the Internet through RSS feed. Listeners who subscribe to the feed can automatically check, download and sync the media files to desktop playlist or portable devices.

Podcast feed: An RSS 2.0 feed with enclosure, containing metadata about the multimedia content.

Podcasting: The process from recording to publishing podcast on the Internet. Some people use this word to refer to the client side of actions, but now popular with the term podcatching.

Podcatching: The act of subscribing to podcast feed and listening to podcasts.

Podcatching software: An aggregator that reads podcast feed to find new podcast files, download and sync the files to MP3 player or portable device.

Podcatcher: See podcatching software.

Preamp: Preamplifier, an amplifier that comes before another main amplifier. It usually powers the microphone.

Promixity effect: The effect when a microphone gets louder signals as you move closer and vice versa.

Podsafe music: Music that is made available for use in podcasts by the artists without royalty.

Must read: Podcast Tutorial.

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