Just in case anyone reading this didn’t know it yet. 
Every day I record an audio-stream of a Dutch radio-show. Using mplayer I record it as a WAV(E) file and then convert it for convenience and diskspace reasons into the Ogg Vorbis format.
I used to semi-regularly listen to them with a homebrew Perl script that allowed me to mark the new ones as heard or keep, but as this didn’t combine very nicely with the audio player I used for all my music, this didn’t work out very well and while the automated recording was still happening every day, I had not heard a recording in weeks, maybe months.
Recently I’ve started to listen to podcasts. Initially manually, but after switching to the Mac Mini I’ve gone and installed the iPodder software which drops the downloaded audio files into iTunes playlists, making it fairly easy to keep track of them, listen to them, and then go back to the usual dose of music.
Tonight I decided to create an RSS feed for the captured and converted files and make that available on a website that’s available on our intranet at home and that way seamlessly combine it with all the other podcasts.
Great fun and it feels a bit like I’m making my own custom radio-station this way. I wonder what this will look like a year from now.
Finishing this entry half a day later, I’ve sadly decided to start encoding the stuff into MP3 instead, as the iTunes plugin is less than ideal (it works, but I’ve seen my share of colourful spinning discs, so to speak) and for the 1 hour long audio files it just hangs at the end of them, never finishing, let alone marking it as read or upping the play count. Either way an amusing combination of software packages tied together to make things Just Work ™!
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