Hi, first, thanks for Pi Musicbox. This is amazing! Thank you for this awesome work, we (my whole family) is enjoying it very much! Starting a web-radio stream on boot works quite fine. Is there a possibility to add the most actual element of a podcast RSS xml feed to the playlist? My idea was th…

If you have the mopidy-podcast extension installed, you can load all episodes of a podcast using mpc simply by prefixing the podcast URL with “podcast+”, for example: mpc add “podcast+http://www.npr.org/rss/podca st.php?id=510019”

Thanks a lot tkem! That is actually what I searched for Writing a small bash script #!/bin/bash sleep 60 && mpc add "podcast+[podcast url]" mpc play && mpc crop && # to leave just the most actual podcast in the playlist mpc load "Discover Weekly by spotifydiscover" && # just an example #### and a…

You could probably loop in your script until mpd status returns without error; maybe https://github.com/tkem/mpd-watchdog/blob/master/mpd-watchdog#L97 will give some inspiration…

The autoplay feature does this. Take a look at the code at the bottom of /opt/musicbox/startup.sh and adapt it to what you want.

@Salve_Lolo Please refrain from stealing existing unrelated topics for your questions. I made a new topic for your question over at What is the best GUI for PI music box using raspberry pi?

How to start a podcast by command line - or how to add latest podcast of a xml RSS feed to playlist?

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what is the best GUI for PI music box using raspberry pi?

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