BellGab/bellchan Archive

Quote from: phrodo on August 02, 2015, 12:45:14 AM
Did/does C2C have an RSS feed where you could/can get shows? Back when I had a Streamlink sub I always had to download the shows in four parts/hours to my puter. Since Keith was the originator of that system ... well looks like that's what he's doing now too.

Yes, C2C has a password protected RSS (podcast) feed.  They've had it for many years, as long as I was a subscriber.

This is frustrating I agree.  I signed up expecting a podcast to be available as well.   A podcast is easy to do if you aren't using authentication.  With authentication it gets more complicated to maintain for thousands of subscribers for sure and will take longer to setup and maintain I suppose. 

So what I did to get around this problem is create my own private podcast.  Since I have my own webservers online it's easy for me to do.  And well I have some of my own podcasts that I publish. 

So every day I download the audio files, add them to my podcast file, and upload it all to my server then my iPhone downloads it automatically.  (If you are looking for a great podcast app for iOS I can't recommend "RSSRadio Premium Podcast Downloader App" as it's called in the app store.  There's three versions.  It works with password protected podcasts.  Apple's Podcasts app does as well actually.  I've just had lots of problems getting the iOS "podcasts" app to work right so I gave up on it.)

Please don't ask for a link to the podcast I created because it's not public and would violate their rules.  But if you are interested I will be happy to upload here all the files you need to create the podcast yourself on your own webserver if you have one.  You can even get a webserver to run on your computer at home and load it there.  It should work fine doing that.  I'll give you everything I have to setup your own podcast except the audio files.  You can download those yourself and just put them in the proper directory and you'll be good to go.

It takes me about 10 minutes every morning to update my podcast with the new recordings.  I've setup a separate podcast for both Art & Richard's shows.

I use Apache on my Linux servers, but here's info on installing it on Windows: 
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html

For a Mac:  https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3083
http://lifehacker.com/start-a-simple-web-server-from-any-directory-on-your-ma-496425450

I've not tried running a server on Windows or the Mac, but I'm sure it would work just fine.  Once you have the sever setup and the files loaded you would just point your podcast app to your server and when you're at home it'll download the podcast just fine.

It's a shame we have to go to all this trouble, but this is the only way to do it right now that I can think of.

So if you are interested in the files let me know here and then I'll go wrap them up and upload them here.  Just  don't make your podcast server public.