Hello, thanks for your detailed and informative post. I'll expand a little on what I've done - I think I have a solution, but it will take a few days of observation to check. I am running the squeezebox server software on my PC, though I intend to get a dedicated HTPC which I can run it on soon.
With Yahoo Pipes, I managed to (relatively easily) return an RSS Podcast feed that only gave the most recent podcast in the feed. I used the "Get RSS", "Sort" and "truncate" functions in order to do this. When you suggested adding this is a favourite, and I managed to do it on the squeezebox server, I thought I'd relatively easily managed to find a solution! Unfortunately, if you go to add this favourite as an alarm, you cannot do it on the squeezebox server software. I assume this is because it is an RSS feed, and not a direct link to an mp3 or a stream. So I spent some time seeing if I could extract just the mp3 url from the RSS feed. I couldn't get this working to return a dynamic link for the mp3 file so the option of using Yahoo Pipes was dead. Then, I thought of a solution similar to your long and contrived way. Both your long and contrived way and your "simpler solution" require a rescan of the library after the podcast download. This isn't realistic for me as I will have a large media library once I'm done. So, what I've done is: Install Juice media centre. Add the relevant podcasts to Juice. Specify the file/path name to include the album name (podcast title) but not the episode title. The filename was defined. So the files go to for example,: L:/Media/Audio/Podcasts/"Football Weekly"/lastest.mp3 with latest.mp3 being the file name (all done by specifying it in the juice settings). I then set the podcasts to download all titles after 3 days. Then I set Juice to auto-download podcasts approximately 30 minutes before my alarm is due to go off, to make sure I have downloaded the latest podcast before my alarm goes off. Finally, because I didn't want to deal with dynamically changing playlists, etc, I created an m3u playlist that only pointed at the latest.mp3 for the particular podcast I want to play each morning. I then added this playlist as an alarm sound. So far, it seems to work, but I need a few days for the podcasts I download to refresh, so I can see if it updates OK. The reason I didn't want to deal with dynamically changing playlists is because if I rescan before the podcast is downloaded, but after the previous one is deleted, will mean that there is no file to add to the dynamic library, so a I prefer my "fixed" option for the playlist. It was really hard work to get it working, and really is something that should be supported out of the box, without the need for third party software to provide a workaround/hack. Anyway, thanks again for your suggestions, I hope this can help someone else, or inspire Logitech to include podcasts in the alarm function :) -- jamesking ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jamesking's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37991 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78267 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
