Podcast Player

A very simple browser-based podcast player made with Flask/Bulma/jQuery. Playback is handled by the excellent Howler.js audio library.

I made this as a side project, since there appears to be no free desktop app for playing podcasts on Linux that I liked. PocketCasts has a web option, but that is only for premium users.

Also, I wanted to learn Bulma.

Run

Use the app

• Grab the compose.yml file from the repository
• Run UID=${UID} docker compose up

Development

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/kanishkaganguly/pypodcast

Dependencies

• Docker

Go to the project directory

  cd pypodcast

Run justfile

  ./just run-debug

Start the server (inside docker shell)

  ./just exec-ui

Tech Stack

Client: BulmaCSS, jQuery, HowlerJS

Server: Flask, Flask-Caching

Roadmap

• Basic interface and functionality
  • Loading podcasts from RSS feed URL
  • Iterating over podcasts and lists, with all details
  • Play/Pause, Seek, Volume
  • Time-based caching and refresh for metadata
• Adding new podcasts from RSS feed
• Menu for advanced playback controls (speed, sleep timer, audio source select)
  • Make dropdown menu
  • Add controls for playback speed
  • PulseAudio forwarding, audio source selector inside menu
  • Sleep timer
• flaskwebgui for proper app mode
• Queue management
• Proper release mechanism
  • DockerHub CI/CD with compose.yml launcher
  • flaskwebgui should allow for pyinstaller-based mechanisms (wontfix)
• LocalStorage or something for playback save/resume.