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owntone / owntone-server

Linux/FreeBSD DAAP (iTunes) and MPD audio server with support for AirPlay 1 and 2 speakers (multiroom), Apple Remote (and compatibles), Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio.

https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server

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RSS feed for podcasts #880

Closed retrography closed 3 years ago

retrography commented 4 years ago

Would it be possible to add a feature whereby FDAAPD populates the podcasts section of Remote app by periodically reading the RSS feeds of the added podcasts?

chme commented 4 years ago

I would love to see support for this as well. A while ago i did look into this, but never started implementing it (it requires some work).

Useful could be:

https://github.com/kstep/libmrss (c library to read rss feeds)
https://github.com/mlj/castget (a c program that downloads new podcast episodes)

I used castget for a while (periodically executed with a cron job), to automatically download new episodes into a folder in my forked-daapd library. That worked quite well, so maybe that would be an already available solution for you.

retrography commented 4 years ago

I will try castget, but I figured probably no download is necessary given that the content can be streamed. Downloading is good strategy only if you are a regular listener.

chme commented 4 years ago

I agree, it would be nice if, forked-daapd would directly read the rss feeds and then stream the episodes. Ideally forked-daapd would also offer some basic search functionality for podcasts ...

ejurgensen commented 4 years ago

Sounds like a good enhancement - let's have it open here and see if someone develops it.

ejurgensen commented 3 years ago

Closing this since it is has since been implemented by @whatdoineed2do