Audiobookshelf is what your wanting then. It does exactly that, and even has a mobile client.
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Anything that you're aware of that will also strip out the 28 minutes of commercials in a 36 minute podcast?
There's this guy that I've had my eye on but personally tried and failed to get set up on my machine: https://github.com/jdrbc/podly_pure_podcasts
Thanks for the recommendation, will give that a further look.
I have played with Pinchflat as mentioned by another poster. I've found that some of the ones that aren't on YouTube, you can use AudioBookShelf or similar in conjunction with a vpn set to a non core country for the podcast, you can either remove or at least greatly reduce the ad inserts.
Have an experiment with that, I use a gluetun docker and link my ABS docker to that.
I will check that out, thank you!
If the podcast is on YouTube you can use Pinchflat to remove ads (assuming it’s been mapped on SponsorBlock). I’ve had hit and miss results but some being ad-free is better than none.
I love having Audiobookshelf. My spouse and I have our own accounts so that we don't trample each other's saved progress.
I use podget, which is a 248 kB bash script. I really like it, and think it will meet your requirements:
- It's designed to be called from
cron - It lets you sort your podcasts into categories
- It automatically organises the downloads into different directories based on these categories
- It's been around since 2005 and is still maintained
From its description:
Podget is a simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron). It features support for downloading podcasts from RSS & ATOM XML feeds, for sorting the files into folders & categories, for importing URLs from iTunes PCAST files & OPML lists automatic M3U & ASX playlist creation, and automatic cleanup of old files.
It also features automatic UTF-16 conversion for podcasts hosted on MS Windows servers.
I believe podgrab can do this
I'm test driving podgrab right, and I really like it, very snappy. It looks like it might not be under active development anymore, unfortunately. The only thing it's missing I'd have hoped for, is some sort of automatic tagging mechanism.
There is also podfetch, but I found podgrab experience better. but it has been a while since i tried it
I use Pinchflat, but I'll take Youtube channel feeds instead so it can employ Sponsorblock and cut the commercials, especially for podcasters that use IHR. It then exports an RSS feed for Antennapod to monitor, but I imagine you could just write the episodes to a Navidrome-accessible folder.