Does Airtime support automatically playing podcasts?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down harborharbor
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    There is software - called RadioDJ, I believe - for Windows that will allow automatic playing of podcasts via RSS feed. Does Airtime support something like this? If not, is there a workaround? (maybe have another program download the podcast into a monitored folder and have airtime play the most recent file in that folder?)

     The goal is to re-broadcast Free Speech Radio News daily and Off The Hook weekly.

    edit: I read an old post that said that feature might be implemented in 2.0
    Post edited by harbor at 2013-09-11 18:36:01
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Voisses TechVoisses Tech
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    Yes and No

    No - Airtime cannot download the podcast feeds and then import them.

    Yes - Airtime can play play the  audio feed if it is downloaded and then imported in the Media library.

    How I do mine is that I downloaded the feed in a folder and then tag them Like StatNews for tags such as title,album etc.  and each time I upload the news it replace the old one.

    With a little knowledge you could do a script that automate this task or for a more advance approach you could us REST to parse the XML obtain the audio file and store it in a watch folder

    Webstream has been implemented in version 2 and Great,Check the library for this

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    Post edited by Voisses Tech at 2013-09-13 02:42:04
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Albert FRAlbert FR
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    V.O.I.S.S.E.S I'm heraing you :

    http://podcatcher.rubyforge.org/

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  • Vote Up0Vote Down hoerichhoerich
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    I also use a 3rd-party podcatcher to workaround. works perfect.

    but there is a user onboard, who did a hack to manage to use soundcloud-streams directly by airtime.
    so, there are ways to expand this.
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Krypton RadioKrypton Radio
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    So this works regardless of the fact the file itself changes and the length might be different from one show to the next?
  • Vote Up0Vote Down John ChewterJohn Chewter
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    This might help.
    http://forum.sourcefabric.org/discussion/16113/hack-added-cron-jobable-bulk-mp3-importer-from-multi-rss-feeds-into-appropriate-watched-folders
    No longer using Airtime or Libretime.
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