walsh9 / simple-podcast-server

node.js based podcast/media server (in progress)

simple-podcast-server

Drop in some folders of media files. Browse, listen, and suscribe to the auto-generated feeds. A work in progress.

Installation

Put the project in it's own folder.

Install dependencies with npm:

npm install

Configuration

Put some folders in your document root.

|--podcastserve.js
'--public/
    |--Podcast 1/
    |   |--Episode 1.mp3
    |   '--Episode 2.mp3
    '--Podcast 2/
        |--Ep 1.mp3
        '--Ep 2.mp3

Run

node podcastserve.js

If you haven't changed the config you can check it out at http://localhost:3000

###Configuration copy config.example.js to config.js. Then edit config.js to fit your setup.

Some setup options:

Option	Description
config.serverName	Domain name or IP address of the server.
config.port	Port to listen on.
config.documentRoot	Path to the folder that will contain the media folders. e.g. public, media, podcasts

Screenshots

Other stuff

• You can add images to the folders to be used as thumbnails.
• If the file names contain dates, you can sort the files by those dates (Default is file create date.)

Details in the example config file.

To Do

• Allow more flexible folder structures.
• Default thumbnail file.
• Buttons for speed control on HTML5 audio player.
• Clean up video player.
• Allow definition/overrides of metadata (descriptions, etc.) with folder/file level config files (?)

License

MIT

simple-podcast-server's Issues

Allow Embed of player

This is such a cool project.. Would love it if you could add a button for Share and post embed code to allow embedding the player to a blog page or the likes.

Allow arbitrary directory structure

Instead of a single directory containing feed directories, allow multiple levels of sub-directories.

Subfolders in media path causes postcast apps to fail

The arbitrary document path that must have at least one subfolder causes many podcast applications to fail to detect episodes, or may not recognise the feed at all.
Suggest you find a way to give the admin control over the directory structure or code in such a way that allows the document path to be altered as required.

dockerfile

FYR:

FROM node:lts-alpine

COPY . /app
WORKDIR /app
RUN npm install

CMD node podcastserve.js

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