ben-xo
Feb 26th, 2008, 09:26 AM
Hi everyone,
This weekend gone I released the beta version of my free software 'dir2cast'.
http://www.ben-xo.com/dir2cast
dir2cast is designed to turn a directory of MP3s into a podcast - automatically. Perfect for, say, radio show archives; upload the MP3s to a folder, and use dir2cast.php as your PodCast URL.
There are other tools out there (such as DirCaster) that do the same job; but I believe mine is the cleanest and most comprehensive yet.
Features:
For 99% of things, NO CONFIGURATION IS NECESSARY.
dir2cast will automatically use the ID3 fields from your MP3s for the Author, Title, etc. ID3v2 is supported.
The generated feed is cached and only updated if something in the directory changes.
Almost-full support for iTunes podcast tags.
iTunes 'image' supported: just drop a file called itunes_image.jpg in the same folder as your MP3s.
RSS Description, iTunes Subtitle and iTunes Summary can be set by dropping files named description.txt, itunes_subtitle.txt and itunes_summary.txt in the same folder as dir2cast.php - but they are not required. (You can also set these in the script).
You can set a per-file iTunes Summary by creating a text file with the same name as the MP3 (e.g. for file.mp3, create file.txt).dir2cast required PHP5.1. Installation is easy - edit the file to set your defaults, then upload it and you're done! After that, just keep adding new MP3s to the folder and the podcast will update automatically.
For those amongst you of a programming bent, dir2cast is very modular and should be easy to add additional RSS features to or to reuse in other projects.
I hope someone finds this useful. It's still in beta, so feedback and suggestions are welcome.
dir2cast is released under the 'BSD' license - that means it's free.
This weekend gone I released the beta version of my free software 'dir2cast'.
http://www.ben-xo.com/dir2cast
dir2cast is designed to turn a directory of MP3s into a podcast - automatically. Perfect for, say, radio show archives; upload the MP3s to a folder, and use dir2cast.php as your PodCast URL.
There are other tools out there (such as DirCaster) that do the same job; but I believe mine is the cleanest and most comprehensive yet.
Features:
For 99% of things, NO CONFIGURATION IS NECESSARY.
dir2cast will automatically use the ID3 fields from your MP3s for the Author, Title, etc. ID3v2 is supported.
The generated feed is cached and only updated if something in the directory changes.
Almost-full support for iTunes podcast tags.
iTunes 'image' supported: just drop a file called itunes_image.jpg in the same folder as your MP3s.
RSS Description, iTunes Subtitle and iTunes Summary can be set by dropping files named description.txt, itunes_subtitle.txt and itunes_summary.txt in the same folder as dir2cast.php - but they are not required. (You can also set these in the script).
You can set a per-file iTunes Summary by creating a text file with the same name as the MP3 (e.g. for file.mp3, create file.txt).dir2cast required PHP5.1. Installation is easy - edit the file to set your defaults, then upload it and you're done! After that, just keep adding new MP3s to the folder and the podcast will update automatically.
For those amongst you of a programming bent, dir2cast is very modular and should be easy to add additional RSS features to or to reuse in other projects.
I hope someone finds this useful. It's still in beta, so feedback and suggestions are welcome.
dir2cast is released under the 'BSD' license - that means it's free.