Castopod @Castopod@podlibre.social

POLL: When Castopod has a plugin system, which plugins would you like to have?

@10leej @james @rdelaage
If you choose Alby, they provide the XML snippet so that you just have to paste it in Castopod.
If you self-host your node (eg. with Umbrel), it’s basically the same but you have to write that XML yourself by following the spec: https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/1.0.md#value

“Containerize your PHP applications using Nginx Unit” 🐘🐳🤖 by @rdelaage
“A new solution, Nginx Unit, came out in 2017, and it can be compiled with support for some languages such as PHP or Python.”
👉 https://blog.castopod.org/containerize-your-php-applications-using-nginx-unit/

@xtaran Thank you for the suggestion, that’s a good idea.

@xtaran It is ours but we do not use it. (Except to prevent squatting…)

Oh, and you can star Castopod on github if you haven't already 🤗

https://github.com/ad-aures/castopod

See the release notes for more info and update instructions: https://code.castopod.org/adaures/castopod/-/releases/v1.2.0

We've just reached 400⭐ on Github and Castopod v1.2 is out 🚀

You can now host your podcast files on any S3 compatible storage!

+ download counts of episodes for better insight
+ health check route for monitoring

And bug fixes!

Grab your Castopod on https://castopod.org/

Benchmark: With two speakers (2 audio tracks), Mufidiwiwhi is faster than Whisper, to perform both transcription and diarisation!
👉️ https://blog.castopod.org/transcribe-your-podcast-with-accurate-speaker-diarisation-for-free-with-whisper/

@genebean I use Aegisub. Not perfect but good enough.

@jdrpodcast 🤦‍♂️
It's public now…

Mufidiwiwhi is a program built on top of Whisper that will transcript audio files with reliable speaker diarization, by using one file per speaker. For free.
👉️ https://blog.castopod.org/transcribe-your-podcast-with-accurate-speaker-diarisation-for-free-with-whisper/

@carrabelloy Castopod will take care of everything: Once you have installed it, it will allow you to upload the file to the server where it's installed.
Note that a future version (quite soon…) will allow you to use S3 buckets.

Castopod is in China. 🇨🇳
https://ruanyifeng.com/blog/2023/03/weekly-issue-245.html