Problem: The ability to mass import podcasts via OPML or textfile could be useful. about libretime HOT 11 CLOSED

I made an importer for AT that is a stand alone cronjob that will import from a CSV list of RSS2.0 feeds. That should still work. It is in 'Airtime Hacks'.

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I think I know the script you are mentioning. We already have Podcast support built into the web UI interface so doing it externally is no longer necessary. This was the suggestion of adding a URL parser that would directly add the podcasts to LibreTime so that a user doesn't need to manually add them.

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Mine goes way past adding a podcast. It, forces stereo, down-samples if required, fills in the genre info, pads shows with genre specific intro jingles, for repeating shows: it adds randomized, show-genre-specific music to a given length - for repeating shows, makes the tea and carries out the trash.

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Interesting. It would be good to integrate some of that functionality into a smarter version of a smart block play list. I have been considering making a default playlist template for podcasts since we've now added an automatic playlist scheduling functionality.

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The idea was to import series of lengthy podcasts, as they become available, in such as fashion that Airtime would automatically play them week after week. To do this, I normalise the incoming pod so it has the same-ish audio levels as my music/jingles files. Then, I make a copy of the pod, pad it to the full show length and call it a consistent name eg. my-greatshow-full-latest.mp3
The sneaky bit is putting the show title, presenter, genre (and a lot more) in the mp3 meta-data.
When this imports, it over-rights last week's file fooling Airtime - but the show info now shows last week's show info.
So, I have another cron job that updates the AT show info from the metadata held in the mp3.
Voila! Automatic ongoing self updating show content.
http://www.deprogrammedradio.com/

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Can Libre Time do this functionality all by itself now?

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Yes. The functionality that exists.
Podcast/RSS subscription - it has a nice UI for adding podcasts and downloading episodes.
Auto Playlist - this is allows you to assign a playlist to a show that will be scheduled an hour before it is supposed to air.

Inside the playlist you can include any number of smart blocks which will grab their tracks based upon the latest criteria. For instance you can have a track that says "Grab 1 item of the newest track that has an album = Democracy Now." This will automatically grab and schedule a track from the DemocracyNow podcast. You can include station ID blocks, jingle/filler blocks etc as well and it will schedule them.

This is in contrast to the AutoDJ included with Airtime.Pro that would just grab random tracks to fill up a show based upon criteria. There was no ability to specify 1 smart block of a random station ID followed by 1 of the latest podcast etc. So it provides much more control over the tracks played than what SourceFabric provided.

What it doesn't do is normalize and auto-fill to a specific time limit. It could be modified to do the auto-fill but that would require a smarter smart block that adjusts its time limit to fit into the remaining time.

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Great progress then. Without auto-update, I would stick with what I have. It works very well. But, anything in playlists and smartplocks would be normalised by LS. If the playlist can be over-filled and it reads the track length and everything below it is recalculated - then that is most of the game.

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Here is a library that processes OPML in php

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