Comments on: Radioshift Subscriptions as iTunes Podcasts

By: Foxhoundn

Foxhoundn — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:48:26 +0000

Pretty awesome and useful!

By: David Maslen

David Maslen — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:53:04 +0000

Very helpful. I just wanted a python script to convert a directory full of mp4 files to an RSS feed.
Directory then published on a local linux box.

You scripts worked perfectly, but I needed to include the mp4 extension as a mime type, and also increase n=10 to n=100 so as to include all the files in my directory (~50).

When importing these files directly into itunes, it seems itunes has access to some description other than the file name. I’m guessing mp4 files have some sort of metadata. I’d like to get that into the description

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:55:11 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to write the scripts and post them on the web. Its really a great way to use Radioshift recordings.
fwiw for the final automation i just set up a shell script with the commands in and put it in the cron.
Good work.

Ben

By: Matt Gibson

Matt Gibson — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:10:26 +0000

Thanks a lot for this! I’ve been meaning to hack something similar together with PHP for a while, but never got around to it. (Probably the only advantage of the way I was going to do it was that iTunes viewing the URL would actually kick off the PHP script and dynamically update the feed based on whatever happened to be in the Radioshift directories at the time…)

I’ve always wondered why Radioshift doesn’t simply come with a little built-in web server that does this for you; it seems like a truly missed opportunity on Rogue Amoeba’s part, and makes Radioshift an awful lot clunkier to use with iTunes.

By: John Wolf

John Wolf — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:46:52 +0000

What an international environment we are in. I listen to sky-fm from London while working on PHP code from a guy in Australia that’s from Canada with a last name of an American as described by a bloke in Somerset, and I’m sitting in Southern California. All of this generally in real-time, give or take a few milliseconds. My most notorious iPod story occurs with all the innocence of a shark attack. On occasion, when loading the device from iTunes on the computer, it erases the music library on the computer. This usually happens when the iPod is empty, a fresh load. It doesn’t do it all the time, which explains why I haven’t backed the car over the thing yet. I reload iTunes from an outboard drive and try again and it works. Anyone have a solution or even a reason why this would happen?

By: Donald Willms

Donald Willms — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:33:17 +0000

Oh wait. This terminal noob has hit a snag. My Radioshift folder is on a second drive and I seem to be running into permissions issues like Mark had. Well I’ve been meaning to roll up my sleeves and learn my way around unix anyway. Maybe I’m just missing the Mountain Dew.

Still My hero but my world has settled to a nice looking pile of rubble.
Donald

By: Donald Willms

Donald Willms — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:36:34 +0000

You sir are my hero. Seriously! You just rocked my world.

Thanks!
Donald

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:48:41 +0000

Hi Kev,
Thanks so much for posting this. Great solution!

I am trying to use Hazel as you described but the image link in the blog post is broken so I can’t see the rule settings that you are using. Could you repost image?

Thanks again!
Rick

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:28:42 +0000

I think there may, now, be a slightly simpler way to do this (I’ve been looking for a way to do this as well).
iTunes supports an ‘automatically add to iTunes’ feature that works almost the way you’d want it to. If you put a supported file (like an .mp3) to ‘itunes-media-folder-location/Automatically Add to iTunes’, iTunes will automatically add it to iTunes into ‘unknown artist/unknown album’.
Here’s my plan:
1) Use Radioshift to record the stream to a folder
2) Run a script (either cron or, I like using iCal events, easier for me to manage and I’m not cron proficient) that
a) moves files matching specific names to the iTunes ‘auto’ folder
b) (waits maybe a minute, but iTunes added it instantly) runs modified Doug’s Script ‘re-add as podcast’ with embedded info
I think that’s it. I’m just about done with the modded re-add-as-podcast script.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:25:43 +0000

Hi Kev,

Many thanks for the detailed instructions. I had one problem on my clean Leopard Snow Leopard installation – I kept getting “403 Forbidden” errors when trying to access the xml file through the browser (at the point where you try to access “http://localhost/~kyank/MyShow/”).

This is probably obvious to those who know their way round OS X / Apache / Unix etc, but it turns out my “~/Music/” folder (a parent of the location the symbolic link points to) only had 700 rights. Not sure if this is the best way to fix it, but I got past the problem by doing “chmod 755 ~/Music” and all seems well.

Cheers,

Mark