I’m trying to figure out which podcasts I should put into a personal radio station. What I’d like to do is create a smart playlist (or several) that creates a daily snap shot of podcasts to listen to. I’m thinking it would include the morning local news, the little bit of NPR news you can get daily, and a couple other podcasts.
Now, I haven’t done this yet, and I suspect it’s going to be clunky with just smart play lists in iTunes. So, I wanted to ask all of you if you do anything like this, and which tools you use…?
Coté,
IMHO you have some things to think about:
1 – creating the playlist(s)
2 – get the data to the people
I know most about the first point, others may provide more about the second:-)
(1) http://last.fm
Could help with 1 and 2
I currently use an Addin for iTunes: it adds every song I listen to intto my last.fm playlists (you can dl the addin from last.fm).
They have a user-based radio feature that plays songs based on tags. (So, if you use your own unique tags, people would just hear what you want them to). But I think you need their player for that:-(
(2) http://amip.tools-for.net/wiki/
amip generates playlists and is very flexible regarding the output. I personally use it only for displaying my current song on screen.
(3) UpnP server
If I remember right, Musicmatch Jukebox has an integrated upnp server. But this would need your ‘listening-pc’ to stay online and up the whole time. As far as I remember, there are also some upnp servers that can run on your isp’s hardware.
This is the area where I know almost nothing…
Ruby on Rails can totally do that, and it's super easy.
lol…good 'un…
Volker: thanks for the tips. I’ll look into those. So far I haven’t gotten the setup I like, so I’m looking forward to checking out those options.