Phonocast is a gem to convert local audio files to a podcast feed, which can then be deployed on your own server or even Dropbox.
Motivation: http://dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-compilation-episodes-1-39 with https://overcast.fm's 2x speed.
gem install phonocast
phonocast create_feed
Instead of passing the same arguments to the CLI each time, you can store them ina YAML file. The YAML file also provides configuration options not available by the CLI.
To generate the YAML file:
phonocast setup
Options can be set by YAML or CLI arguments. The order of precedence is:
DEFAULTS -> YAML -> CLI Arguments.
So if you have YAML.title = "Title 1" and CLI.title = "Title 2", the title used will be "Title 2". Generally speaking, store your config in YAML and use CLI arguments for one off overrides.
All itunes_ tags correspond to iTunes RSS spec.
| Name | CLI | YAML | Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| base_url | Y | Y | Url where audio files are hosted, e.g. myserver.com/podcasts or mypublicdropbox.com. Defaults to link. |
| rss_path | Y | Y | Location and name of generated rss file. Default: ./phonocast.rss |
| file_path | Y | Y | Where are local audio files? Default: ./ |
| image_path | N | Y | Podcast log. base_url/image_path. Channel level. |
| title | Y | Y | Title of Podcast |
| link | Y | Y | Channel level link (e.g. mypodcast.com) |
| yaml_path | Y | Y | Location of YAML file for config. Default: ./phonocast.yaml |
| copyright | N | Y | Channel level |
| language | N | Y | Channel level |
| description | N | Y | Channel level |
| author | N | Y | Channel level |
| itunes_block | N | Y | Channel level |
| itunes_explicit | N | Y | Channel level |
| itunes_keywords | N | Y | Channel level |
| itunes_subtitle | N | Y | Defaults to description. |
| itunes_summary | N | Y | Defaults to description. |
scp -r . server:/path
Drag and drop to Dropbox Public folder and set base_url appropriately.
Contributions welcome. Please open pull requests and include tests.
Need contribution ideas?
grep -rni todo lib/
Copyright (c) 2015 Alex Blom. See LICENSE for further details.