Live audio streams mixed with podcasts using the playlist
Thanks for the support of live audio streams! New features give birth to new ideas. ;-)
Wouldn't it be nice to mix podcasts with some minutes of a live audio streams, continue with another podcast episode, followed with some minutes of music from a live stream and so on?
Therefore one just needed to add a to-be-specified-amount-of-minutes of a live audio stream to the playlist. Long press in the Live Stream page, popup menu "Add to playlist", form to define the amount of minutes to be played. When Podcast Addict starts to play a live stream in the playlist it simply counts down the minutes, and when the time has run to 0 it continues with the next podcast episode or live stream.
That will give the Pocast Addict user to mix his own "radio program" with (non-music) podcast episodes and music from some web radio stations...
Example:
1. play news pocast
2. play 10 minutes of music from 181.fm
3. play a science podcast
4. play 5 minutes from SomaFM
5. play next podcast...
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MDC commented
Highly desireable: be able to automatcally start a live stream once playlist has finished.
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Dirk commented
You are right: Cutting a live stream in the middle of a song will definitely suck. Could be handled by fading out the live stream during the last few seconds or by trying to find a silent gap between two songs (streamripper knows where a song ends, somehow, even not perfectly).
Yes, not all podcasts are talking people and not all streams are music, but as the Podcast Addict user you will know what to mix and how to mix and when to mix. Nobody will be forced to use this feature if it was available, but everybody who likes the powerful feature could use it.
- one could mix "talk podcasts" with "live music" one ofter the other
- one could mix "music podcasts" with "live talk" one ofter the other
- one could mix "talk podcasts" with "live talk" one ofter the other
- already availbale: mix * podcasts with * podcastsFrom the programmer's point of view (hello Xavier) this feature could be easily added: Enter the wished duration when adding a live stream to the playlist, add a timer event handler (a count-down ) when starting the live stream, playing live stream from playlist, ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... (fade out | search gap), et voilà: next episode/stream on playlist
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Matt commented
Would really suck if you cut into a song you liked halfway through or just at the end. The worse thing I could thing of though is finishing your podcast to then go to adverts. I like your creativity and understand your idea, but not all podcasts are people talking and not all streams are music. could you not setup a playlist like that with short music podcasts in place of the stream radio?
It could be useful though if your listening to a talkback radio show and have music you may fall asleep to next in the playlist to have a countdown until skip track which at the end of countdown starts playing the next podcast or maybe a music live stream in the playlist????
Your thoughts on this?????