Podcasts Plugin

[Adam_Kearn 1]

Hey,

I have been playing around with the podcasts plugin.
At the moment it seems like I have to provide a URL to an XML (RSS Feed) for emby to get the podcast data.

Does anyone know a way to keep a local copy of the podcasts instead?   My understanding of this at the moment is to use a tool such as youtube-dl to download the podcasts and then save the files into a media libary with the type of "Audio Books" or "Music"?

Could there be an option added to the existing plugin that will download the audio files from the RSS feed from a service such as audioboom.com (what itunes uses)

https://audioboom.com/channels/5018675.rss

[Luke 42083]

Hi, you should be able to use the download features with the podcast content.

[MBSki 1114]

You can download from your library just like any other media type. It isnt the cleanest UI, but it works 

[Adam_Kearn 1]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

Hi, you should be able to use the download features with the podcast content.

Thanks for the quick responce.

That downloads to a local device right? (e.g. phone/ipad)      I am looking for a way to download the the server locally.

[MBSki 1114]

1 minute ago, Adam_Kearn said:

That downloads to a local device right? (e.g. phone/ipad)

Yes it does.

1 minute ago, Adam_Kearn said:

I am looking for a way to download the the server locally.

You might be able to use the folder sync plug-in to download to the server. I haven't tried it for Podcasts, but it could be a potentially simple solution.

[Adam_Kearn 1]

Hey guys thanks for the advice.

I have decided to take a diffrent approch to this now.   Someone recommended to me to install podgrab https://github.com/akhilrex/podgrab

And use that instead.   I have installed the docker image and got every setup correctly.

After it had finished downloading I had just over 70 mp3 files.

 

When I did a libary scan I could only see 45 "songs" in the "audio book" libary I had created.
I then decided to remake a new libary but this time with the type of "music"   this also seemed to only show 45 items....

 

Is there a way to get emby to show all items that are in the album?   (see screenshots below)

 

[Happy2Play 9783]

What view is that?  Possibly a tagging issue as the views are tag driven except folder view.

Do you see the same in folder view?

 

I have a test copy of the bible and can see 150 mp3 in that book/folder (audiobook library).  Have not tested in a Music library.

snippet from the bottom

[Adam_Kearn 1]

When I go into folder view I can see all 74 items.     How ever when I change the view to "list"  it shows random names for some of the audio files.

Some of the names have duplicated numbers (which are not on the origional file name)   when I checked the metadata for that file it was completly fine apart from the title...

Any ideas?

 

See below:   

[Happy2Play 9783]

I would think Filename should be correct, but would need to see embedded tags also as Emby is tag driven.  

 

With you stating Album is only showing 45, I am guessing items are getting multi-versioned or not shown in said album do to embedded tags since folder view is showing all items.

 

Edited September 10, 2021 by Happy2Play

[Adam_Kearn 1]

Managed to solve the issue in the end...

I checked and the metadata for the file had dupilicated episode numbers for some reason....  don't ask me why....

I was able to remove this from the files fairly easly in bulk (within windows)    (See title feild)

After doing this I rebooted emby and did a refresh but it was still showing the wrong names.
It wasn't until I changed /var/lib/emby/cache to /var/lib/emby/cache.old it started to work.

Looks like it was caching the wrong data.   Thanks anyway.   I'll see if there is an option to not include metadata in my podgrab config.

Edited September 10, 2021 by Adam_Kearn

[Happy2Play 9783]

Glad you figured it out. 

You should run all mp3 media thru something like mp3 tag to verify all embedded tags.

Have not verified audiobooks but all tracks should have same Album and Album Artist name to shown as one album, otherwise they can be split out into single track albums.

Looks like I have my audiobooks tagged with Album and Artist.