Posted on - January 5, 2009 [at] 12:01 am by Brad
Tagged in - diy, music, nerdy, podcast
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I tried doing a podcast a few years ago and failed. I just wanted to share some music I was into but compiling the podcasts was time-consuming enough that it got pushed aside almost immediately.
So I’ve started another podcast on Sellout Central which I’m planning to put out every Monday.
This time though I’ve spent some of my vacation time figuring out how to automate most of the process.
The nerdy details:
Using sox, flite, lame and a bash script, all I have to do is export a playlist from Foobar2000 and run a script. Sox crossfades the songs and compiles them into one big WAV file, flite generates the speech synthesis for the intros and outros and then lame compresses them into an MP3 with appropriate ID3 tags. So basically, I export the WAVs and then run:
./podcastit.sh [episode #] [# of songs]
And get back a shiny podcastable MP3. Whether anyone will like the songs I like is a whole different matter.
If you want the script, let me know and I can package it up.
Update: and here is the script all packaged up.
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19 Comments on this post
alfred on My latest podcast attempt
November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am
Great mixes!
2 little feedbacks .. It would be nice if you could publish the start times next to each song so if you are tabbing back and forth between work and the songs, you can figure out which track is playing .. and not sure if the wordpress player handles it, but if you change volume in one playback widget, it would be nice if a cookie remembered the level for other playbacks (a common issue with media sites).
Good luck with your podcasts!
andrew on My latest podcast attempt
January 5, 2009 at 2:42 pm
that sounds cool. im looking fwd to the music.
dp on My latest podcast attempt
January 5, 2009 at 9:25 pm
awesome ill have to check it out! and yeah i want to check out the script too man! sounds cool! Peace!
mike on My latest podcast attempt
January 5, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Very cool. Can you add a way to play directly from the web page as well?
dp on My latest podcast attempt
January 6, 2009 at 12:23 am
wow that was quick…lol nice player what is it?
Brad on My latest podcast attempt
January 6, 2009 at 12:28 am
Got it in there, thanks for the suggestion!
Brad on My latest podcast attempt
January 6, 2009 at 12:29 am
And it’s the WordPress Audio Player:
http://wpaudioplayer.com/
bobsmitt on My latest podcast attempt
January 6, 2009 at 6:19 am
woww, this is a great mix. all that’s missing is a way to subscribe to this on itunes.
i’m loving the tunes on this.
i would be interested to check out the script and such.
ezuk on My latest podcast attempt
January 6, 2009 at 11:03 am
Brad, this ROCKS!
I’ve subscribed. This is actually the only podcast I listen to.
Mattias on My latest podcast attempt
January 6, 2009 at 11:19 am
Hi!
I sent you an e-mail the other day about the possibilitys of using one of your songs for an assignment…did you get it? I used brad@bradsucks.net
I´m in a bit of a hurry, the film needs to be done at thursday morning and I really need to know if it´s ok or not.
Please let me know cause I would love to use it. It´s a marvelous song and it´s perfect for the film.
Sincerely
Mattias
tunaspark@gmail.com
Jaime on My latest podcast attempt
January 6, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Wow Brad, this is really cool!
Coolest music podcast I’ve heard.
joshissquashed on My latest podcast attempt
January 6, 2009 at 2:06 pm
you hve very similar tastes to the record label Kitsune
sympodius on My latest podcast attempt
January 6, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Dude, excellent automation extravaganza. Can I have the script? :-)
bjrn on My latest podcast attempt
January 6, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Mattias, you’ll be fine as long as you’re not selling that assignment. As far as I know Brad’s music is generally under a Creative Commons non-commercial share-alike license (in other words: do what you want with it, but if you want to sell it you need to talk to Brad first).
Bas on My latest podcast attempt
January 8, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I love The Mitchell Brothers song! thank you Brad, im sick at home but you made my day
sympodius on My latest podcast attempt
January 8, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Thanks for posting the script Brad.
Chris Hartzog on My latest podcast attempt
January 12, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Great idea….thanks for the script too. I’ll be tuning in.
JonTheNiceGuy on My latest podcast attempt
December 9, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Just typical. I spend weeks writing the podcast generation script for CCHits.net, come here to find some music, and find YOU ALREADY DID IT! Grr :D.
Oh well, at least we can share any code improvements? :)
My code is all available at http://gitorious.net/cchits-net
tioEze on My latest podcast attempt
December 23, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Brad, can you check the download that says “Page Not Found”
I really want to try this.
BTW, Merry Christmas from Tierra del Fuego – Argentina
;)