That all makes sense. And it is totally confusing, even if you're familiar with how it all works. Like until you just mentioned tracks don't have feeds but albums do, I had even forgotten that ð
Let me know if there's some kind of search feature or API on Wavlake we're missing that could help at all. I think writing your own feed (or some version of that) will be the way for a while, but maybe we can help make it less painful.
Can't wait to hear that rant! ð
Yeah, I'll think about it. But I realize I'm a special case ð
I could imagine a website where you find the wavlake track you want, you enter the time, and it spits out the snippets for you to copy.
You could call it mixtape builder ð
Doesn't need a full Gameboy interface either ðĪŠ
Here's full documented headache:
https://www.bitpunk.fm/@bitpunkfm_unwound/episodes/valuetimesplits
This episode is so insightful.
I think for starters, what we could do is add an option on every track to generate a raw, value time split template for you with all the guids pre-filled and the timestamps empty. Then all you'd have to do is click on the track, get the template, and then fill in the timestamps before putting it in your feed. I think that'd take most of the headache out of constructing the block for that specific track but let me know if I'm wrong.
Also, the remotePercentage value is set to 99 on the songs on our episodes so we can have some visibility into which songs get boosted during an episode.
Yeah just getting the guids, urls, and the split syntax is the most error prone I think, that would help the most.
Oh yeah, I remeber someone vaguely saying that too if it's 100% they don't see it live.
Thank you listening also ð
On the subject of hosted solutions: you're totally right that it's a double-edged sword. Something I don't think is talked about much in that regard is the entire system's dependence on the Podcast Index as a centralized database of feeds. Not to say what they've done there isn't awesome -- it is. But I think it's important we recognize that is a single point of failure right now
Yeah absolutely. Discovery and curation still work better from a centralized source most of the time.
And I get people want to do just upload and move on. That's honestly awesome, that's a service worth paying for.
I'm just trying to keep the weirdo level high ð
