Windows Azure for podcast content
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Solution
Windows Azure Media Services is currently in Preview, you will need to register for it on Azure Portal (Preview Section) via https://manage.windowsazure.com/, more info here: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/features/media-services/
Not sure if you need media services to be honest, if you create a storage account and then upload your files to a public blob container (set the cache expiry header otherwise it will expire from the cache 72 hours in the CDN), then you log into the Portal and enable the CDN on that storage account. All your content will be pushed to the CDN edge nodes.
The CDN will assign a URL in the form of http://.vo.msecnd.net. (Note it can take up to 60 minutes for DNS propagation to occur).
Maarten Balliauw has an excellent blog post explaining it all: http://acloudyplace.com/2012/04/using-the-windows-azure-content-delivery-network/
HTH
Problem
I'm trying to evaluate the use of Windows Azure storage/media/cdn services to host the audio content for a podcast site, but I'm having some trouble figuring out what the best approach would be to do so. Do I need to setup a storage account and use blob storage with CDN enabled for the content? Would it be better to use media services? If the latter, I can't seem to find any good documentation on how to get started with the media services, or how to manage content. Anyone have any ideas on any of this? Thanks.