Category: The DirCaster Project

DirCaster Version 0.9c – Added in the ability to define a variable that allows for the use of an enclosurePrefix for such systems as the Raw Voice Media Stats system (TechPodcasts, Blubrry.)

Check it out!

The DirCaster Web Site

Yep, another great addition to DirCaster from Henry. The latest version: DirCaster Version 0.9b – Added in a guid change to allow for multiple files that had the same file date in the feed, and identifies them as “false” for permalinks.

If you are using DirCaster… grab this one!

DirCaster V0.9a adds a test so that the ?ft=[filetype] would display ONLY files that are listed in the “sftypes” list. Check out this great new version!

The DirCaster Open Source Project

With thanks to Henry Ratliff, our amazing PHP guru, a new version (0.9) of DirCaster hits the ‘net!

Check out these new features:

Revised item GUID tag to be more unique

Added channel keyword tag

Aligned XML tag indent. Looks better when reviewing raw XML.

Added parameter to allow the selection of a single file type:

dircaster.php?ft=[filetype]

The DirCaster Open Source Project

Henry L. Ratliff, PHP programmer extraordinaire, has done it again for those of us in the DirCaster community! He has added a feature that I am making great use of for the new Netcast on Dr. Bill.TV! It is a feature that allows the user of DirCaster to “override” the ID3 tag information in the actual MP3 or MP4 (or any other supported file type) in the feed. This allowed me, for instance, to have the feed information be correct for my video files for my Dr. Bill.TV feed even though I have yet to “settle on” a good ID3 tag writer for all the file types I need. This is awesome! So, be sure to check out the new version at:

The Dircaster Project

Well, a new year, a new DirCaster update! This one fixes the “LastBuildDate” field in the feed to be compliant with standards just as the last version fixed the “PubDate” field. Again, check it out with FeedValidator.org and you will see that it passes with flying colors! Hooray!

The Dircaster Project

Thanks to Henry L. Ratliff, a listener to our podcast, we now have a fixed DirCaster release with new features! Here’s the ChangeLog:

ChangeLog for Version 0.7a
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2006-12-25 H. L. Ratliff
. Fixed several PHP Notice errors issued when error level set to ALL
. Patched occasion where single digit day in pubdate sometimes
displayed for example ‘ 1’ instead of ‘ 01’. new function fixDat()
. Substituted RSS title tag value with file name when id3 title value
is empty. stripType() drops the file extension
. Corrected raw ‘&’ in RSS title tag (use ‘&’ instead)
. Fixed variable name error which caused, the logic to produce only
a set number of feeds, not to work. Controlled by $maxFeeds.

The DirCaster Project

Thanks so much to Henry for helping get the bugs fixed, and the new features I talked about wanting on the last podcast included. He rocks! Oh, by the way, DirCaster generated RSS feeds now pass the FeedValidator.org RSS feed tester for iTunes and RSS feeds PERFECTLY!

It is with a “gulp!” that I take on the maintenance of the DirCaster Project. I have long benefited from other Open Source projects, but I have never tried to maintain one. I hope I am up to it! The “DirCaster Software” is what I use to create the RSS feed auto-magically for the “Dr. Bill” Podcast. It really rocks! I have updated it to use the iTunes feed info and tags correctly. It passes the feed test for RSS feeds with iTunes data. If you are interested in helping, check out the site I created for it, and welcome aboard!

DirCaster: An Open Source Project

“DirCaster is a PHP script that allows one to very easily start Podcasting MP3 files from their web host. This allows original content creators to easily provide a feed for the Juice Podcast Receiver, jPodder, and other “podcatching” software. Simply drop the dircaster.php script (and accompanying files) into a directory on the web server and it will generate a valid RSS feed suitable for Juice Podcast Receiver, etc., based off the MP3 files (with appropriate ID3 tag information) in that directory. To broadcast a new MP3 file, simply upload it to the same directory that contains the DirCaster script and files.”