Automagic Podcaster
Since my interest in recording my dreams has been renewed, I’ve started fixing up the code to my audio blog. I mainly call it “Automagic Podcaster” due to the fact that all the end-user has to do is upload MP3 files onto there site. The code reads all the meta data about the MP3 files that have ID3 tags embedded within them.
Some of the MP3 tagging software that I’ve been using lack features such as Unicode support and chapters. I tried doing translations of my dreams in Japanese, Arabic, Chinease, and Portuguise and saving them as lyrics. Most other languages that I translated using google had problems with some characters. I soon fixed that by using html entities to represent the special characters. I sent an email off to the author of a particular piece of software. I’m hoping that maybe he is already working on somethng similar for the next version of his software.
Anyhow, I’m thinking that soon I may just package everything up, clean the code a little, and look into posting it as open source software. I don’t know what all is involved. I’m using a flash applet to read and play XSPF feeds on my pages to play the mp3 files, so I need to contact the author to see if I can distribute it along with my code and what additional requirements there may be.