Over the weekend and past couple of days I’ve been working on a demo, so no podplay feeds yet. In the meantime, a few of you have sent mails about the listener services Adam mentioned in Thursday’s DSC. Good news, these will emit RSS and OPML, so as long as your podcatcher supports import/export, you shouldn’t need to do any additional coding. One of you suggested supporting an enhancement to the combined RSS feeds that mix several different podcasts into one.
I’d like tags available for each so the softtware can determine which feed they originally came from, to treat them differently if the user so selects, or even perhaps split them back up into the original “feeds”, if thats what the user wants.
Excellent idea! I think we can solve this one with the RSS source sub-element of item. I’ve fed this back to the dev team, stay tuned. It looks like I wrote support into GigaDial for this. Take a look at the New England Podcasters’ feed to see ’source’ in action.
Hey,
Nice work on developer.podshow.com. Do you know if there is a php library to allow you to convert and .wav audio file to mp3 audio file? I want to record a podcast over the phone and upload it to podshow.com, the IVR app will record in wav format then I will convert it on the fly to mp3 format then it will be pushed to a server and the podcast will generate a rss feed automatically then hopefully a feed vacuum will be set up to suck in the files from the rss auto generated feed.
-Auto
> Do you know if there is a php library to allow you to convert and .wav audio > file to mp3 audio file?
Don’t know of any php for this, but most desktop music software ships with mp3 encoders that can perform this conversion. On the open source side you might want to check out lame. Google “lame mp3 encoder” for more info.
Hey guys! It’s great that you have created this area to converse about the “backstage” stuff. Beyond hosting two shows for Poshow, I am also hardcore into the development end of podcasting and APIs. I welcome the opportunity to learn and share along our Podshow journey.
Keep up the great innovation!
Marcus
Hey, us New England Podcasters are going a step ahead of Gigadial – we now have a combined live, auto-updated feed that merges together everything in one fell swoop. Subscribe to the channel and you receive each podcast’s show as it comes out. Made deliciously tasty by Feedburner, powered by Python. Check it out!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/newenglandpodcasting
New England Podcasting. Our baseball team may not always be world class, but our podcasts are!
Sweet! Gigadial sets up the dinner date, you guys arrange the marriage :)