Hi, I wanted to give an update on my current solution regarding podcast servers cutting the connection after 5 minutes for a 30 minute podcast: - I create bashscript running on a cronjob. This script does the following -- read podcasts and their title from a config file -- parses the xml for the podcast URL sources (I am focussing on mp3 at the moment) -- downloads the x latest podcast episodes if not yet downloaded -- cleans up existing podcasts (just keep the last x files) -- creates a m3u playlist with the updated podcast episodes -- moves files to a location LMS can access (in this case I chose a local webserver instead of a file in the music folders) -> I noticed that playlists would be shown as empty, if new downloaded files are referenced, which are not scanned yet. And I didnt want to scan my whole library each day :-) -- moves playlist to the LMS playlist folder -- initiates a "rescan playlists" on the LMS
I will now test this for a few days and provide feedback and access to the (ugly) scripts, if desired. Downside: Playlists are not showing any information like logo, title, duration: LMS doesnt seem to accept the EXTM3U information in the playlists. I opened a ticket here: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111146-EXTM3U-is-not-respected-in-a-manually-created-playlist to clarify this and check what I did wrongly. After playing the podcast episode, LMS picks up title and a logo from the MP3 file though. Upsides: - podcasts are downloaded nightly - the amount of storage is not too big by just keping the last x episodes - I can listen to my podcast episodes without interruption regards, André -- LMS auf einem QNAP TS-653B in einem Debian Docker-Container Versionsnummer: Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - 1488878280 @ Wed Mar 8 14:36:54 UTC 2017 Player: 1x SB Touch, 2x SB Radio, 1x SB Duet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bigcookie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63397 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110756
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