Notes from James

Escapepodder 0.17

Released Escapepodder 0.17. Just a little maintenance release. Added:

• Case insensistive mp3 extentions
• Fix for a buffer overrun issue with long titles

Escapepodding

WFYI, a PBS station in Indiana, is using Escapepodder for podcasting!

Escapepodder - New feeds found

Here's a few links to some podcasts that are using the totally free Escapepodder software to do podcasting:

Creekside Middle School Orchestra

Panola College Library

Glad to see that Escapepodder is still alive.

Another Escapepodder Podcast

Finally, here's another podcast using Escapepodder - Christ Chapel Bible Church in Fort Worth, Texas. Glad to see it's getting some use out there!

Escapepodder Script (podcaster.pl)

Chris at bitforbit wrote a perl script to recurse through directories and generate a podcast for each directory. You can pick it up here.

He also noted:

Oh, one thing worth mentioning that may not be obvious right off the bat is that the File::DirWalk module is required, so if you do put it up on your site, you may want to mention that.

He was nice enough to provide a copy of it to me as well. You can download it here. I'd click the link above, though, as he may have updated it in the meantime.

Thanks, Chris!

Another Escapepodder

Found another one here: http://www.proberadio.end-of-dreams.com. Unfortunately, the site seems to be in the process of going down...bummer!

If you use Escapepodder, please let me know...I'd be glad to throw up a link on my blog here. I'm interested in learning who (if anyone) is using it.

Bassendean Town Radio

Here's a link to Bassendean Town Radio's RSS Feed, another podcast source using Escapepodder. Their web page uses another form of linking for the HTML, but the RSS feed is Escapepodder generated.

Escapepodder on the net

Here's a radio station, radio700.de, that is using Escapepodder to podcast on the net! If you are using Escapepodder to podcast, please let me know so I can put up a link to your site.

Escapepodder 0.8

From a comment by EastonRoyce, added a new version of Escapepodder that supports changing spaces in filenames to %20.

Adíos Escapepodder

I moved all the Escapepodder information to the Twiddly Wiki found here at this page. This cleans up a bunch of the stuff here in my personal blog to more of its previous random nature.

Your Freaky Life, Part Two

So far, this podcast, Your Freaky Life, is going pretty well. I seem to have a few listeners anyway. Just need to get some more responses to make it a full show. So far, just delivering my own stories.

I may move all the escapepodder stuff out of this blog into the wiki. At least all the revision history stuff. It's really a cool tool.

Escapepodder Home

Here is a link to a main Escapepodder webpage. This has all the information that the blog does, but is more permanent (less blog-like). There may be further details here.

Escapepodder on Sourceforge

Created a project on Sourceforge to try to generate a bit more momentum for this project. I'll probably have more details here, though.

Escapepodder notes

Here are a few random notes about Escapepodder. Hopefully the search engines will pick up on this entry.

Escapepodder automatically generates an RSS feed for your podcast. All you have to do to run it is set up a configuration (one time only), then copy the mp3 files that you want to have as part of your podcast to that directory, and run escpod. When it runs, an RSS feed is generated with the mp3s that are in that directory as enclosures.

Escapepodder is GPLed code, but includes a Windows binary (command line only). You can just click on the executable to run it. It will exit fairly quickly, and the RSS feed will be ready. The code is written in C. I compile it with DJGPP.

Escapepodder is written in C code, so you may wish to tweak it for your needs. I see it as a sort of companion piece to Bashpodder, a simple, command line piece of code that can easily be scripted. You could write an easy script to copy your mp3 files to a directory, run escpod, then FTP all the mp3 files and the RSS feed to a server.