What is Playcasting?

Playcaster combines all of the songs from an iTunes playlist into one large mp3, then uses OS X web sharing to build a podcast out of your playcasted playlists. Your friends can subscribe to your feed in any RSS reader or iTunes and listen to your playlists.

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Playcaster 1.0 beta

Requirements

• OS X
• iTunes
• Web Sharing turned on with PHP enabled

Instructions

Setup

1. Run the installer.
2. Edit ~/Sites/playcast/index.php
   • set $link to your local address for the playcast directory (i.e. http://yourIPaddress/~YOU/playcast)
   • set $title to anything you want to call your podcast
   • set $author to you
   • Optional: set $MMUser to your Musicmobs user name. If you set this, publish your playlists to Musicmobs so your subscribers can view a track list and add comments.
3. Make sure you have web sharing on in the System Preferences. Also make sure you have PHP enabled.

Playcast

1. Play a playlist in iTunes and choose "Playcast" from the scripts menu (you may need to restart iTunes).
2. Give your friends the URL to your playcast. By default this should be the IP address of your local machine followed by '/~username/playcast'. If you have a router, make sure to do port forwarding.

Tip: Use Feedburner to create nice URLs for your podcast. If you do this, make sure to update $link in ~/Sites/playcast/index.php.

Tip: If you want to locate your podcast in a directory other than ~/Sites/playcast edit ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts/Playcast.scpt and change this line to the location of your choice:

• set sites_directory to "$HOME/Sites/playcast"

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