Get your podcasts ready right after their broadcast 👍

channel.yml

# Needs to be in /var/www/html/channel.yml

:title: 'All About Everything'
:description: 'A show about everything'
:url: 'https://www.server.com/data'

podcaster.sh

# Creates a podcast feed at server.com/feed.xml
# Podcasts will be in server.com/data/*.mp3
# Needs ffmpeg and dropcaster ( gem install dropcaster )

( ffmpeg -i "http://audio.scdn.arkena.com/11008/franceinter-midfi128.mp3" -acodec copy -vcodec copy -metadata title=`date +%D` /var/www/html/f/data/`date +"%s"`.mp3 ) & pid=$!
( sleep 4314 && kill $pid ) 2>/dev/null & watcher=$!
if wait $pid 2>/dev/null; then
    echo "finished"
    pkill -HUP -P $watcher
    wait $watcher
else
    sleep 2
    find /var/www/html/data/*.mp3 -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \;              # Keep only 10
    cd /var/www/html && /usr/local/bin/./dropcaster data > feed.xml      # Create xml for podcast players
fi

# Wow, so easy to crontab' ! 
# 50 7 * * * bash /home/user/podcaster.sh