daily-english-practice-podcast

Daily English Practice Podcast

This folder is the local archive and RSS source for daily English-practice audio.

Publishing Rule

The user approved deployment of this show’s audio and feed to a free public HTTPS host on 2026-08-15. Do not submit the show to public directories, and do not publish transcripts or other project materials.

Apple Podcasts can follow a show by RSS URL. The first episode and feed are published on the approved free HTTPS host; the program is not submitted to any public directory.

Folder Layout

• podcast/podcast.json: show metadata and privacy settings.
• podcast/episodes.json: episode manifest.
• podcast/inbox/: temporary landing folder for newly generated audio.
• podcast/audio/YYYY/MM/: local audio archive.
• podcast/public/feed.xml: generated RSS feed, deployed with the approved public audio files.
• scripts/generate_podcast_feed.py: deterministic RSS generator.

Daily Episode Convention

Archive each finished audio file as:

podcast/audio/YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD-short-topic-speaker.ext

Then append one entry to podcast/episodes.json with:

• stable id
• date
• title
• description
• audio_path
• mime_type
• length_bytes
• duration
• RFC 2822 pub_date
• sha256
• status

Run:

python3 scripts/generate_podcast_feed.py

The generator writes podcast/public/feed.xml and validates that all referenced local audio files exist.

First Episode

The first episode has been copied into:

podcast/audio/2026/08/2026-08-15-english-commute-radio-01-mark.mp3

It is listed in podcast/episodes.json as published and is available from the show RSS feed.

Future Updates

The current free deployment is a manually uploaded static release. Each new episode must be deployed to the same host after the local manifest and RSS feed are rebuilt. A future automation connection can make that deployment automatic.