by meoyawn on 12/10/19, 5:25 PM with 3 comments
by joshstrange on 12/11/19, 7:10 PM
Grab any video/audio url and paste it into this to add it to a custom podcast RSS feed. So effectively, take a URL, run youtube-dl on it converting it to an MP3, shove it into an RSS feed, and... profit?
It's a really cool idea that might actually fly under the radar enough to not piss off content providers. If it was more of a marketplace/collection of podcast feeds for popular YT (or other) content then I'd be more worried. It still probably runs afoul of copyright laws but a little more in the "plex" category than the "limewire" category (in my eyes at least).
Overall I like the idea, there is plenty of content that I don't need the accompanying video for OR is an audio source that won't play in the background on mobile. This also means I can use all the cool features of my preferred podcast player (Overcast [1]) specifically the smart speed and voice boost.
There is a provided iOS Shortcut to easily add content to your playlist (just share the web page/link into the shortcut) and it looks like an equivalent for Android. I have youtube-dl server running that I can post URLs to and I created a Shortcut just for myself and it's awesome to be able to easily share a link to a video and know it's going to show up in Plex within the next few minutes. I imagine this will be similar.
Lastly the creator should (if they don't already) have a bookmarklet or browser extension to make it easier on the desktop (the video shows you manually copy/pasting the url into the webpage).
Congrats on shipping, this looks really neat!
[0] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/listenbox?utm_source=badge...
by meoyawn on 12/10/19, 7:10 PM
Any feedback is good feedback, I hope you find it useful