📚🔈 BookCasts

Turn audiobooks into podcasts.

Do you have a folder of audio-files? Do you want to listen to it in your favorite podcast-app?

Requirements

• Web-hosting space (enough to fit your audio-files)
• PHP running on it

Setup:

• Copy the file bookcast.xml.php into your folder of audio-files.

• Add an optional coverart.jpg/jpeg/png file

• Add an optional metadata or metadata.ini file with , for example, this contents: (all optional)

  language = en
  title = The Audio-book
  description = A description of the audio-book.
  copyright = 2020, The Publisher
  link = https://example.com/book/

• Upload the folder to your web-host.

• Add the URL (your-webhost.example.com/this-bookcast/bookcast.xml.php) to your podcast-app.

• Start downloading & listening!

Configuration / Options

You can tweak the following options: (in the top of bookcast.xml.php):

• META_DATA_FILE_NAME
  If you want to use a different metadata file.
• COVER_ART_FILE_NAME
  If you want to include different image-files/formats.
• AUDIO_FILE_TYPES
  If you want to use different audio-files.

The syntax used is from glob(), see an explanation in the PHP manual.

Supported / Testing

• The output is a valid feed, according to W3C Feed Validation Service.
• The feed works (good enough) in Overcast.
• It might also work in your favorite podcast-app, who knows.

About

This thing is just an idea and very 'work-in-progress'. It was created to scratch my own itch; Maybe it also works for you.

Suggestions and ideas are always welcome.
Create an issue or take a look at all the 'things I already thought of but didn't get to yet'.

Or take a look at another piece of php software: dir2cast
It probably has the feature you're looking for.