[lojban-beginners] Re: PodCast comments ...

[Theodore Reed <treed@surreality.us>]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 19:32 -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
> In preparation for the next jbocradi, plans are in the works to
> finalize how the feed will be presented. It's better to make necessary
> changes sooner than later. One of the ideas is to syndicate jbocradi
> in both RSS and Atom syndication formats. However, I already plan to
> offer the feed in both mp3 sound files and standards-compliant
> open-source Ogg audio files. That alone would mean two different
> feeds. So if I offer two different file types and also two different
> syndications, that means for each episode I would have to create four
> different feed documents. This would get tiresome after a while. And
> yet I know for a fact that many pieces of blog software will
> automatically add a new blog entry to a syndication feed file. Surely
> the equivalent must exist for podcasts. Does anyone know of a program
> that will take audio files that are on the web and automatically edit
> RSS and Atom syndication files to include them?
> -epkat

With a bit of study, I could probably write a python or ruby script to
do this. I actually already have a python script that does simple
substitution for HTML templates. (They don't change enough to really
need dynamic pages, so I change them locally, run the script, and upload
them.)