document updated 19 years ago, on Sep 30, 2007
- My RSS rewriter + tagging + Smart Playlists is a REALLY substantial improvement. I REALLY should write this up in a polished form, and try to get the word out about it.
- find a more general solution to the "multiple shows a day" problem... I currently do this for the Diane Rehm podcast by splitting it into two separate RSS feeds: one, two. However, I need a more general solution because I also listen to these shows which have the same problem:
- The Brian Lehrer show
- On Point with Tom Ashbrook
- tags have allowed me to listen to MANY more podcasts than I was able to do before, so do the following things to expand what I listen to:
- make more space for podcasts, either by removing songs from my Nano, or by buying a full-sized iPod
- make a habit of regularly exploring new podcasts. Possible sources of new podcasts:
- various directories
- is there a podcast or blog, that regularly reviews new / upcoming podcasts, and makes recommendations?
- periodic maintenance
- Periodically prune my subscriptions, and weed out podcasts I don't listen to much. Go through the main "podcast" folder in iTunes, and check on everything with a "!" icon next to it.
- periodically review the "Recently Added" in iTunes, to make sure everything is passing through rss_rewrite.cgi
- periodically review the "(missing)" reports inside rss_rewrite.cgi
- nice-to-haves:
- Is it possible to make it easier to add a podcast? Possibly via a web-based interface, rather than storing the data structure inside the code itself? However, some of the fields include actual code... therefore, it can't possibly be public, because that'd be an intrusion risk
- or, is it possible to redirect ALL HTTP requests from iTunes through an external filter, so that my program automatically filters all of them, with less fuss? Apparently iTunes supports the MSIE proxy settings... but is there a way to redirect ONLY podcasts, and leave everything else undirected? That sounds like a pain, unless I somehow get the universal-local-proxyer that I've always dreamed of setup. (though to some extent that was primarily needed because of the network topology of the previous place I worked)