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license: artistic-2.0
pretty_name: The Autocast Initiative
tags:
  - art
  - sound
  - podcast
  - podcasting

The Autocast Initiative

This dataset archives podcasts in real-time. Podcasts that indentify with the principle of autocasting as their method for sharing audiofiles with an audience of subsribers.

All contributers are volonteers.

The Principles Autocasting

  • The content is primarily not created.

  • Neither the files or the RSS feed is not manipulated after publish, other than to correct mistakes.

    • The "episode description" is the exception to the above. Use this field however you please.
  • No method is to be considered "too low-effort" when it comes to generating audiofiles.

  • For content protected by monetization is encouraged to commit scrambled content and provide means for unscrambling as they see fit.

    • Further monetization is encouraged.
  • Get paid if you can.

How to contribute

Create a folder for your autocast as so:

/archive/[Name of your feed]/

Do not substitute special characters (if possible)

In this folder, include your episodes as well as snapshots of your RSS feed at the time of publish (if possible)

/archive/[Name of your feed]/[001].mp3 // or whichever format you use
/archive/[Name of your feed]/[001].xml
/archive/[Name of your feed]/[002].mp3 // ...
/archive/[Name of your feed]/[002].xml
...
/archive/[Name of your feed]/[00n].mp3 // ...
/archive/[Name of your feed]/[00n].xml
...

If you intend to publish more than 1000 episodes in a single feed, figure it out (responsibly)