> *Author: *Joe Wrigley
> *Date: *2011-02-22 11:12 -000
> **
> />I would like them
> > to be treated as podcast files, so that I can listen to them in
> sections.
> /
> A quick and easy option could just be wordpress on your local system:
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Podcasting
>
> Otherwise, you could try:
>
> http://easypodcast.sourceforge.net/
>
> N.B. I've not tried either, but I would lean towards the wordpress
> option.
Easypodcast is a GUI, and I don't do GUIs if I can help it! I tried the
wordpress path, but after installing the 10th package, and trying to
remember the third password, it was all too much.
I eventually found a page[1] which told me that a podcast server is
essentially a single XML file hosted on a web server, and described how
to create that XML podcast feed file. I just set that file up as a
couple of templates (one for the header section, and one for the text
describing an individual podcast file as an "item" in the XML), and
wrote a shell script to write out the header section (with the current
date in it as the "publish" date), followed by as many <item> entries as
I had MP3 files, using "stat" and "mp3info" to extract the required info
from them. That XML file goes into the root of my apache2
installation. I then went to the machine running iTunes and browsed to
that page; it even gave me a simple button to subscribe. Now I can run
the XML file creation script whenever I want to publish the latest mp3s,
and iTunes will automatically pick them up.
[1]
http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html
