I'd like to be able to listen to my Podcasts in a scheduled fashion, probably using alarms. But I'd like the alarm function to be able to have some simple logic that it will play the most recent episode in from the RSS feed.
For example, at 10am I'd like to play "The World in Brief" from the Economist, and I'd like it to play whatever the most recent episode on that RSS feed. Ultimately, my goal is to be able to create a schedule of various podcast shows in such a way that I'm essentially creating a talk radio station with a selection of all my favourites. That would be a interesting way to use WiiM streamers/speakers.
I'm not sure if this would be easier to do using existing music services that happen to integrate Podcasts (e.g. Spotify), or if it's worth WiiM writing their own podcast player code. I think the latter might ultimately be better than the former for many reasons because you'd have way more flexibility on what you'd be able to do, and as a software dev myself it doesn't seem to be difficult to do in relative terms. Primarily because podcasts all want you to fetch their content, the RSS feed interface is public/standard, it's not like licensed streaming services which try and prevent 3rd party apps from accessing their content because it's all behind a mandatory paywall due to content licensing. Also importantly: there are a lot of open source podcast apps "out there" (e.g. PocketCasts, my "daily driver" podcast app happens to be open source).
For example, at 10am I'd like to play "The World in Brief" from the Economist, and I'd like it to play whatever the most recent episode on that RSS feed. Ultimately, my goal is to be able to create a schedule of various podcast shows in such a way that I'm essentially creating a talk radio station with a selection of all my favourites. That would be a interesting way to use WiiM streamers/speakers.
I'm not sure if this would be easier to do using existing music services that happen to integrate Podcasts (e.g. Spotify), or if it's worth WiiM writing their own podcast player code. I think the latter might ultimately be better than the former for many reasons because you'd have way more flexibility on what you'd be able to do, and as a software dev myself it doesn't seem to be difficult to do in relative terms. Primarily because podcasts all want you to fetch their content, the RSS feed interface is public/standard, it's not like licensed streaming services which try and prevent 3rd party apps from accessing their content because it's all behind a mandatory paywall due to content licensing. Also importantly: there are a lot of open source podcast apps "out there" (e.g. PocketCasts, my "daily driver" podcast app happens to be open source).
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