Download command meta and filename interpolation

[lordchuffnel]

Good day.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as of now, there does not seem to be a way to dynamically change the filename of the file downloaded with the "download podcast" command. Also, the downloaded file (for me, from a: RSS XML URL) is downloaded with no metadata attached. The result being, every file downloaded has a hardcoded filename with no discernable difference between the files except "date added" or "date modified" in file explorer.

Request:

When downloading from XML source (such as a podcast), have built-in interpolation that the scheduler "Playlist/track filename or command" field accepts. Perhaps widely known/used fields available in parsed XML. Perhaps be able to chain as necessary. Also, use the XML to auto-tag the downloaded file so that, at minimum, title and artist are saved in their respective ID3 tags. The method of interpolation chosen as an example is arbitrary.

Example:

download podcast http://podcast.example.com/feed.xml D:\RADIO\Podcasts\Example\%title%.mp3

or chained:

download podcast http://podcast.example.com/feed.xml D:\RADIO\Podcasts\Example\%channel::title%-%channel::item::title%-%date%.mp3


For a secondary option, use the opposite slash, like the folder_path command uses:


download podcast http://podcast.example.com/feed.xml D:\RADIO\Podcasts\Example/ <-- forward slash here

The forward slash would tell radioboss to automatically interpolate. This choice would be completely software-defined for which fields/ID3 tags would be saved to the file upon successful download

 

[djsoft]

The file is downloaded as is, without further modifications. It may already contain the tags - depends on the authors of the podcast. Currently there's no way to dynamically name/tag the downloaded files based on the info in XML.

What is the use case for this?

 

[lordchuffnel]

I have been using the download podcast command on the scheduler to download the most recent files from an rss feed.

download podcast http://podcast.example.com/feed.xml D:\RADIO\Podcasts\Example\file.mp3

The problem I'm having is, when the file downloads successfully, no ID3 tags are saved to the file. I've tried multiple different feeds from different websites, still same result. I don't mind the file name being the same or overwriting, but I cannot figure out why the ID3 tags, namely artist, title as least, are not being saved to the file.


Thanks!

 

[djsoft]

The problem I'm having is, when the file downloads successfully, no ID3 tags are saved to the file. I've tried multiple different feeds from different websites, still same result. I don't mind the file name being the same or overwriting, but I cannot figure out why the ID3 tags, namely artist, title as least, are not being saved to the file.

This is because download command merely downloads the file, without making any further modifications to it. If the podcast author had included tag information in the file, RadioBOSS will read it. But it doesn't add this information.

I think in the future updated we'll add a flag for the download command to make it tag the downloaded file, based on the information in XML.

 

[lordchuffnel]

That would be awesome, thank you!

Keep up the good work, love your program!