AudioBoom is closing its free tier:<\/p>\n
If you take no action, then after 2nd October 2017, you will no longer be able to upload new content and your account will become private. We will continue to enable distribution of your existing content for a period of a month so all your RSS feeds and web embeds will continue to work for that period. If you choose to move to another podcast provider, let us know by emailing us at support@audioboom.com and we will redirect your RSS feeds for you. We\u2019ll need at least 5 working days to comply with your request. After 36 months from 30th August 2017, your account will be deleted (including your old podcasts and your RSS feeds, so we recommend that you arrange for redirection of your RSS feeds, download your old podcasts and back them up elsewhere, before that period expires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
from: Subscription Changes<\/a><\/p>\n
Which is depressing news for me and for Edutalk<\/a>. I have 50 odd boos which range over field recording, audio recorded for Edutalk and some microcast type posts. Edutalk has had several hundred contributions from many different people over the years.<\/p>\n
The situation at Edutalk is more worrying. I could pay $9.99 a month to keep my own account alive. But Edutalk has had contributions from many different people, we could not expect them to pay up for the privilege of having their content syndicated onto Edutalk.<\/p>\n
AudioBoom did not provide any export that would help with importing into WordPress (or anything else). This differs from the posterous closedown which did give a WordPress export option.<\/p>\n
We do have a while to sort this out. There is a month until the accounts become private.<\/p>\n
AudioBoom does have an API, and we used it before<\/a>.<\/p>\n
I am not intending to rush, so this is the plan.<\/p>\n
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- Download the information about the posts using the API<\/li>\n
- Download all the mp3s by parsing the JSON the api provides.<\/li>\n
- Delete all the posts on edutalk that have been syndicated from AudioBoom.<\/li>\n
- Upload all the mp3s<\/li>\n
- Create posts that embed all these mp3s with the matching titles and descriptions etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Today I managed to download the json files and the mp3 I used AppleScript as I find it easier to get stuff done with that than pure shell scripting.<\/p>\n
Thank goodness for the JSON helper for AppleScript<\/a> which worked a treat.<\/p>\n
I’ve put the script here:<\/p>\n