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Introduction
potcasse is meant to help people to publish and self host a podcast easily without using a third service.
Dependencies
- rsync (could use cp but avoid recopying audio files locally)
- a posix compatible OS (Linux, *BSD, Solaris)
How to use
The idea is to regroup audio files with their metadata in a directory and generate the structure that you will publish on a web server.
First time
potcasse init
This will create a file metadata.sh that you need to edit accordingly to your setup.
It has the following variables:
- TITLE: this is the podcast title
- AUTHOR: this is the podcast author (doesn't support multiples authors yet)
- SITE: base HTTP URL where your podcast will be available (for example
https://tilde.example/myname/podcast/ - RSSLINK: name of the RSS feed
- IMAGE: if value is not empty, potcasse will use the file
logo.png
You will share the link $SITE/$RSSLINK to your listeners.
New episode
potcasse episode "Episode XX: trying something weird" /path/to/audio/file
This will create a directory episodes/YYYYMMDDhh so you can't publish more than a podcast every hour using this command. The audio file inherits the directory name.
You can force a directory name with a parameter after the audio file.
potcasse episode "Episode XX: trying something weird" /path/to/audio/file this_is_my_podcast_episode_i_want_to_name
Publishing
potcasse gen
this will create or update the output_html directory with your audio files, the RSS file and the logo file if any.
Real world example
My podcast feed is available at https://perso.pw/lambda/feed.xml which is on server perso.pw in /var/www/htdocs/lambda/.
I add new episodes with potcasse episode "A made something nice" ~/Podcast/episodeXX/file.ogg then I use potcasse gen that will refresh the directory public_html with metadata and episodes, finally I put it online with rsync -av public_html/ perso.pw:/var/www/htdocs/lamda/.
My metadata.sh looks like this:
TITLE="Lambda Solene"
AUTHOR=Solene
SITE=https://perso.pw/lambda/
RSSLINK=feed.xml
IMAGE=YES