[grc] Podcasting app?

Wed Apr 22 16:19:16 PDT 2020

I second Podcast Generator, with a few notes. I recently installed it so
that DJs at a small Philly station can record at home, upload as a podcast,
and the automation can automatically run the latest version. Because many
are music shows, the web site is private.

A single installation can handle a single show with multiple episodes, and
one user+password combination. Since the station has many shows, with
multiple episodes, I worked around the limitation by installing P-G once
per show using different URLs. Clumsy but expedient.

The default max upload size limit -- not the PHP one but the one in P-G --
is around 100 MB, which will need to be larger for stereo shows over an
hour.

File names can't contain many characters by default, like dashes for
example, which is frustrating when your show has a dash in its file name
and you don't find out until you tried to upload. There's a setting to
change that in the P-G config file.

Because there's only one user per show, some natural things for a radio
station like having a program director be able to manipulate any show while
DJs can only manipulate their show, aren't really feasible. A single
podcast (RSS/XML) by genre or just to pick up the latest content across a
whole station, isn't doable.

It's clearly a work in progress.

I tried hard to avoid throwing a Big Solution at this problem, but it's
going to come up again a few more times and I may bite the bullet. The
Drupal CMS has all the multi-dimensional categorizations, role-based users,
multiple users, the ability to make some podcasts private and others public
in intelligent ways, password recovery etc etc and can produce RSS feeds
out of the box, but they need a little tweek to be "podcasts". But I really
thought I got out of the business of setting up Drupal sites, and
especially dislike trying to do major Drupal upgrades on heavily-customized
sites.

Paul (pablito) Bame
Prometheus Radio Project <http://prometheusradio.org/>, Engineering Director
215.727.9620 x505
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 6:58 PM Paul Riismandel via grc <
grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:

> Carl,
>
> I'd suggest using Podcast Generator for your purpose:
> http://www.podcastgenerator.net/
>
> It's free, open source, and simple to use.
>
> If you're just making podcasts for a small audience, and don't need all the
> overhead of stats and other stuff, there's no reason to use a podcast
> service like Libsyn. You can install Podcast Generator onto most web host
> accounts. At Radio Survivor we use it to produce our broadcast-only feed
> for affiliate stations hosted on our Dreamhost account, where we also host
> our blog.
>
> Frankly, you could also use Podcast Generator for hosting a public podcast,
> provided you don't expect it to be super popular, and don't need the
> conveniences that come with a paid host.
>
> For our public podcast at Radio Survivor we use Blubrry, and have been
> quite happy with the service. They have very good technical support, and
> understand the needs of small podcasters. It also integrates very well with
> Wordpress, among other CMSs.
>
> --Paul
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:49 AM Carl Etnier via grc <
> grc at maillist.peak.org>
> wrote:
>
> > At WGDR, we're looking for a different type of podcasting service. We'd
> > like our local programmers, who are now producing their programs from
> home,
> > to be able to share their programs with us--and only us--via RSS feed.
> That
> > way we can integrate the RSS feed with our automated programming and
> > greatly simplify our effort in getting their files on the air. Instead of
> > downloading files from a variety of platforms and then loading them into
> > the automated programming, we'd simply point the podcast feature in our
> > automated programming at the RSS feed. It takes just seconds to check
> that
> > each program has a freshly loaded episode in the RSS feed.
> >
> > Ideally, we'd like to be able to share this service with nationally
> > produced shows that don't syndicate through Pacifica, and to allow them
> to
> > reach other radio stations through our podcast service.
> >
> > If you're looking to reach large numbers of listeners for a handful of
> > shows a month, the pricing plan for something like Libsyn makes sense.
> But
> > we're looking to serve at most dozens or scores of downloaders, but with
> > maybe 20-30 hours of programming uploaded every week.
> >
> > I played with feedity.com, with the idea of getting it to generate an
> RSS
> > feed out of a Google Drive page, but I couldn't get it to work.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > --Carl
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 3:01 AM Lisa Rudman via grc <
> grc at maillist.peak.org
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Frieda and friends,
> > > We're relatively happy with *Libsyn* but haven't done a compare and
> > > contrast on it for 14 years :-)
> > > Hang in there everyone and stay safe, L
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Lisa Rudman, Executive Director, *Making Contact*
> > > Radio show and podcast <https://www.radioproject.org/>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:34 PM Frieda Werden via grc <
> > > grc at maillist.peak.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have been waiting for the Pacifica podcasting service to
> materialize,
> > > but
> > > > I am guessing that project may have been set aside.
> > > > That leaves me looking into what service might be good for placing a
> > > > weekly half-hour with the range of podcast outlets.  I know some of
> you
> > > > have experience with this.
> > > > Here are some descriptions of services I found, but am hoping to find
> > one
> > > > that is really simple to use and inexpensive.  Suggestions? Caveats?
> > > >
> > > >
> https://www.thepodcasthost.com/websites-hosting/best-podcast-hosting/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.thepodcasthost.com/websites-hosting/best-podcast-hosting/#others
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Frieda Werden, Series Producer
> > > > WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
> > > > email: wings at wings.org  and wingsproducers at yahoo.com
> > > > Facebook news feed: https://www.facebook.com/wingsradio
> > > > To contribute funds: https://www.paypal.me/wingsradio
> > > > websites:  www.wings.org  <http://www.wings.org/> (historic)
> > > > New site being rebuilt at: wingsradio.org/wordpress
> > > > Older editions gradually being archived here (choose year for
> sorting):
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22WINGS%3A+Women%E2%80%99s+International+News+Gathering+Service%22&sort=titleSorter
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