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jacroe / pidora

A Raspberry Pi Radio. Includes Pandora (via pianobar) and NPR Hourly News
http://pidora.jacroe.com/
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make podcast feed configurable, maybe multi? #58

Open pjz opened 10 years ago

pjz commented 10 years ago

It would be nice if the podcast feed was configurable, and if it was possible to specify multiple of them.

jacroe commented 10 years ago

What kind of configurations would you like to set? And specify them in what way? Having a list of them in which older/newer episodes play back to back?

pjz commented 10 years ago

I was thinking a list of RSS URLs to monitor, which would play the latest episode if there was a new one, like the current NPR feed does now.

jacroe commented 10 years ago

Hmm, the current NPR feed plays as an imitation of normal FM radio: a bunch of songs with a brief interruption of news and then immediately followed by more songs.

What would be interesting though would be having a sort of radio program schedule with interruptions for shows on certain days. But that would require more structure than I'm willing to put in to the pianobar module proper (in fact, the NPR interruptions have been completely for now; they'll probably be added back but as a setting) . What could be done is have a parent module that controls the pianobar module and then at certain times plays a new podcast episode.

This is interesting. I may try to be build this in. But it'll probably be a while before I do.

pjz commented 10 years ago

My thought was that most people won't leave it on 24/7, so any podcasts would show up at startup. And the skip button should still work :)