PodMin, the People's Podcast Platform
This is PodMin, a Django project for managing podcasts. It grew organically, in the pungent soil of necessity, and has some oddities and warts as a result.
PodMin was originally designed to process audio files uploaded by an automated system at a local radio station and turn them into a podcast. It was a rough and more or less ready set of scripts for generating RSS feeds, which eventually grew a UI and became more and more useful for general podcast maintenance. It is currently in use at http://podmin.hypothetical.net
Main features:
- General iTunes-compatible podcast feeds including CDATA fields
- Comprehensive episode management, including at-will publish/depublish, buffer (upload now, publish later) and mothball functions.
- Epsiode art and show notes
- Tag audio files with notes, art, credits, etc
- Optionally auto-name audio files
- Listen to episodes with Javascript audio player
- Generates static RSS files for efficient serving and bullet-proof availability
- Upload files to a directory and PodMin can automatically process them into a podcast (some assembly required)
- Mothball archives can be exported/imported
Main deficits:
- No test suite :-(
- Sparse documentation and end-user help
- No internationalization
- Rich and diverse bug ecosystem
Feature priorities:
- Test suite
- Documentation and in-app user help
- UI improvements throughout
- API for pulling show notes and other data out
Installation
Sorry, this is not documented at this time, but PodMin is a Django project and should be deployable via any of the usual Django deployment methods.
Development
You can spin up a development environment with docker-compose (make sure you have docker and docker-compose installed). in the top level directory do:
docker-compose up
And you should find the dev instance running on http://localhost:8001
Please feel free to file bugs or feature requests here, or submit pull requests if you feel like fixing or adding something.