Steven Bell :pci: :pc2red:

Bug Reports Here:
https://t.me/+NCqewc8q0eU4NzYx

https://getalby.com/p/steven

Artisanal Coder.

You may know me from such apps as: LNBeats, The Split Kit, Sovereign Feeds, Music Side Project, CurioCaster, &
TranscriptSearchTool

Bug Reports: https://t.me/+NCqewc8q0eU4NzYx
GitHub: https://github.com/thebells1111/
LN Address: steven@getalby.com
Nostr: npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9

Public Key

npub18a6x0kawfw7vjy097psqwy7v7ly4z5ac3u2tpqr3u3v2uvk467esdepny4

NIP-05 Address

stevenb_at_podcastindex.social@momostr.pink

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nos.lol

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2026-03-19 18:14:40 UTC

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https://curiocaster.com/rss/feed.xml
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/4935828
The picture shows the test tag. I have a socket connection going 24/7 that broadcast a new liveValue every 30 seconds. Just connect to the socket and parse the JSON that's returned.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/257/197/868/547/192/original/3e5376a2d1ebe726.png

2026-03-19 14:39:03 UTC

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The JSON structure has a bunch of stuff that isn't needed for most apps, it's internal stuff I use with The Split Kit to talk to other programs (like mAirList), so don't get to hung up on that structure.
I suspect that structure will change as we brainstorm. What I'd like for us to agree on is how things like Title/Song, Author/Band, Podcast/Album should be labeled so everyone is on the same page.

2026-03-19 14:34:10 UTC

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I'll try to put together a working livestream feed in a few days with dummy liveValue tag that changes every 30seconds so you can test and develop.
I also have this which is just an html file with some JS so you can see what's going on under the hood on the client side.
https://codepen.io/editor/S-B-the-typescripter/pen/019d0407-7f0c-750f-9c76-1ab1520f1c6d

2026-03-19 14:31:04 UTC

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I agree on the RSS naming conventions, so would like to come up with a json file structure we all agree on.

2026-03-19 02:50:36 UTC

@npub1p7v…qql0 @npub1wd7…8l2x
Are either of you planning on implementing liveValue into your apps? It's an unofficial tag, but CurioCaster and @npub1qvx…hseu support it.
Think of it as a live chapters block and live value block that gets sent over a websocket during a live show.
I'd like to discuss a format that makes sense and modify the proposal so everyone can agree on a good format for the tag
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/547#discussioncomment-16201182

2025-07-04 00:15:45 UTC

I have a friend looking for a job. She does mostly front end work. If any of your companies are hiring, I'll send her your way. https://www.linkedin.com/in/haliekoehler/

2025-05-11 04:22:35 UTC

We just stress tested The Split Box. It was able to support the Satellite Spotlight, an event that sent 2.2 million sats worth of boosts, 1.2 million of them being through TSB.
The means the listener was able to scan a QR code from the wallet of their choice, and over 20 splits were handled on the backend.
This means you can paste your QR code on fliers, merch, the drumkit, and your fans can boost from the wallet of their choosing and each band member gets their split.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/114/487/271/805/313/365/original/18cf4b792babf55c.png

2025-05-06 12:29:32 UTC

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Imagine this, it has a time stamp or audio url on it as well, so you can walk to an area, geofence recognizes where you are, and it jumps to that spot in the audio and starts playing. It would be like a choose your own adventure podcast.

2025-05-02 20:38:35 UTC

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Okay, and then the app displays the og:title and og:image.
It's not exactly intuitive, but could totally work without modifying the tag.

2025-05-02 20:36:31 UTC

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Oh yeah!!! I hadn't considered OG images.
I'm not following what you need by node values though.

2025-05-02 19:26:24 UTC

The Funding Tag is your own sovereign linktr.ee
I'm pretty sure it can very easily be extended so it can be a direct clone, available in all apps.
Looking at these linktr.ees, if we add an img attribute, and something so you can tell the app what 'group' the item goes in, we pretty much have linktr.ee in the feed.
https://linktr.ee/hbo
https://linktr.ee/selenagomez
https://linktr.ee/hoe_math
https://linktr.ee/comedycentral
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/114/439/858/561/400/549/original/e2010aff208a0028.png

2025-04-30 11:18:24 UTC

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I’m not sure any of the apps support it, and until we move away from node addresses in the feed, I don’t know that they will. With NWC there’s several wallet options you can choose to connect your wallet to the app, but most wallets don’t support keysend, so won’t be able to send payments to most Podcasts

2025-04-29 20:50:51 UTC

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Might be a bad address in the feed. @npub1ma9…vt3t is updating it.

2025-04-29 20:39:59 UTC

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And look at all those splits going out back out!!!
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/114/423/181/871/190/636/original/8d6cb7af510c2219.png

2025-04-29 19:57:11 UTC

It's coming.... 5/10/25
One QR to rule them all,
one QR to find them,
One QR to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.
One QR code, multiple splits, splits can change on your command, in real time.
Verify the splits were made.
https://thesplitbox.com/metadata/d5def5f7-63da-4292-9ff8-18fb7fdc18fe
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/114/423/002/595/551/910/original/25c6abe7538747ca.png

2025-04-21 13:57:20 UTC

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Only 12-24 months to go... according to AI.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/114/376/299/666/375/539/original/e1e398bbbc685e9e.png

2025-04-01 13:53:44 UTC

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I also have this https://github.com/thebells1111/live-updates
which a bare bones server/client than anyone should be able to use to build their own broadcasting system. As long as we all agree on the same json format, TSK doesn't need to be the only app sending out liveEvents.

2025-04-01 13:23:43 UTC

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Nah, it's all open sourced, and @npub1z6g…amwj knows what's going on with it.
It's not a single point of failure by design, I'm just the only one doing anything with it right now.
It is literally a json file over a websocket. I don't know how to make it anymore open than that.
https://github.com/thebells1111/curiohoster
https://github.com/thebells1111/thesplitkit

2025-04-01 13:20:48 UTC

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Then when we did live music and VTS, I though I could mod it to change albums instead of speakers. I just kind of tacked it on, then Boo-bury got involved, and it's turned into the Rube Goldberg machine you find today.
2/2

2025-04-01 13:20:12 UTC

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It actually started as an idea I had when Adam and Dave where talking about doing a Bitcoin conference, I wanted a way to change the picture on a screen of who was talking and update the QR code with their lightning address so the current speaker could be boosted in real time.
1/2

2025-04-01 13:02:55 UTC

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TSK is quite a bit more than a broadcaster for liveEvents. If someone one just interested in sending liveEvents, they totally can without using TSK. It's just a json file sent of a websocket.
I suppose someone could use my socket server rather than setting up their own, and their app sends the correct message to TSK, and then TSK rebroadcasts to all the clients, but I'd have to quite a bit of work to change how my authorization for who's allowed to send updates works.

2025-04-01 12:32:25 UTC

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The radio station could send out the data the apps are looking for over socket.io. Right now, TSK is the only liveEvent broadcasting app, so someone either has to build their events manually, or send a feedGuid and itemGuid to my endpoint so I can build the events automatically. I put that info in the mp3 files they download from TSK so they don't have to look it up, their software can just send what's already in the metadata.

2025-04-01 00:10:28 UTC

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Once the show goes to recorded podcast, all of those live events can be converted to VTS and chapters in the feed.

2025-04-01 00:09:09 UTC

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It’s a tool I developed to send live info to any of the apps listening to the socket.io event found in the feed. By listening the app can get live data from the podcaster, think live value blocks and live chapters that update in real time on any listening app.

2025-03-31 20:52:55 UTC

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If you drop an mp3 download from TSK into a metadata reader like this https://www.metadata2go.com/result#j=74918a66-cbea-4ab1-925b-38381a8c770c You'll see I'm adding the stuff that needs to be read and sent to TSK. Again, it's built for mAirList, but if Azurecast is able to send data, I can build something around it. I really just need the feedGuid and itemGuid if you're trying to play a song and it builds your TSK event in real time.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/114/259/014/896/513/152/original/d43226516e0d1e56.png

2025-03-31 20:47:45 UTC

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But any software that can send the eventGuid, feedGuid, and itemGuid whenever the song changes would work.

2025-03-31 20:41:12 UTC

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I'm not sure how Azuracast works, but if it has a way to read the metadata from an mp3 downloaded from TSK, then send that metadata to an API endpoint when the mp3 plays, then yes.

2025-03-31 18:02:42 UTC

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But 20 years of precedence without needing backup servers is a pretty solid track record.

2025-03-31 18:02:06 UTC

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I'm not sure either. I was just thinking about the two major reasons nostr bros say nostr is superior to RSS, which is the redundancy (you know, censorship resistance is there big thing), and then the centralization of the Index.
I'm not convinced nostr will replace RSS, as much as the nostr-bros think. They think it will replace everything. I think it's going to remain a realm of a few zealots, but I'm willing to consider their criticism and see what we may improve in RSS.

2025-03-30 22:16:49 UTC

My idea with the signature in the feed isn't so much that we need to figure out how we can integrate with nostr, I'm not convinced we need to. It's more that some of their criticisms about why nostr is better than RSS may have some merit worth considering, and if so, how we can use their ideas for our own purposes.
I'm open to criticism so we can improve things we may not notice because we're insiders and can sometimes be myopic when viewing something we love.

2025-02-27 21:59:49 UTC

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So an image could have multiple purposes, and each purpose is separated by a space?

2025-02-24 20:46:16 UTC

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As it stands, the tag is pretty useless for anything other than lowering bandwidth. It's a drop in replacement for itunes:image or the image tag (which at least has a height attribute). It's limited to only a single count, and the precedence in podcasting is that image is a square image. It could be expanded to be actually useful for something many people have been asking for for, which is video thumbnails or banner images by changing the count to multiple and adding a ratio.

2025-02-24 20:40:07 UTC

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Both of these images are 400W.
As an app dev, how can I use this info from the feed to create this layout if I don't know the height or ratio of each image?
It's not about maintaining the ratio, it's about know what the ratio is so it can be used for design.
If this is in the feed, I have know idea if it's a banner image or a square image.
<podcast:images srcset="https://example.com/image1.jpg 400w />
<podcast:images srcset="https://example.com/image2.jpg 400w />
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/114/060/746/213/201/751/original/a70f01f64ee3c44b.png
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/114/060/756/965/623/926/original/c0c61754c2527ee7.png
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2025-02-22 20:27:30 UTC

@npub1rcn…dw4h I don't think season and episode are being parsed by the Index correctly. Here's some feeds with podcast:episode that are returning the value as null from the Index.
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/4630863
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6604977

2025-02-21 15:46:19 UTC

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Do you have a link to the announcement so I can understand the context?

2025-01-20 03:30:03 UTC

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Cool! Thanks!

2025-01-20 02:56:46 UTC

@npub1thg…zq23 @npub1fmx…wp74 @npub1rcn…dw4h @npub1g2v…achf @npub1z6g…amwj
Have you guys been getting some payments for PC2.0 Episode 207 with a note talking about testing splittable zaps?

2025-01-19 17:30:31 UTC

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It is all kludgy. I don’t like it. Keysend is the proper tool for the job. I don’t mind sending sats to lnurlp wallets, but I’m at a point that if you really want metadata, get a better wallet that supports the right solution for the job.

2025-01-17 15:28:53 UTC

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Index has some cached data that's not in sync with the feed.
Did you podping it?
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/844/397/497/004/308/original/280aa6b1e38fe2df.png
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/844/401/038/653/938/original/29c5721aec3b45f2.png

2025-01-17 14:06:50 UTC

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Oh cool. I'm glad I built that so I didn't have to build it.

2025-01-17 05:26:57 UTC

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Have the last one you want in the list with the oldest pub date, first one has the newest date.

2024-11-23 19:02:27 UTC

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I think the idea is I can host the options endpoint on my own server, so I never have to update my feed. I put my options endpoint in the feed as the lnaddress, and if I decide to switch from Fountain hosting my wallet to Alby Cloud hosting my wallet, I only have to update the new address in one spot, which is on my server. Right now, if I change from one wallet provider to another I have to update every single feed my address appears in, including feeds I don't own.

2024-11-23 17:00:46 UTC

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Since I'll be involved in this, I just need to know how we want to handle it.
I'm thinking we something documented in the github that shows what the new valueblock format that supports lnaddress and lnurlp. And maybe an explain it to me like I'm 5 sort of introduction, because I haven't kept up with a lot of this stuff, so don't really know the difference between the two and how to implement them.

2024-11-23 16:44:10 UTC

Can anyone help me with how this should be handled?
How do we handle feeds that have mixed lighting methods?
Maybe I'm using lnurl, but my drummer is using keysend.
Or maybe I have a keysend, and I'm transitioning to lnurl, but want to make sure that apps that only support keysend can continue supporting my feed. Should I have both methods in my feed, and how do the apps know which one they should use as the primary and which is an alternate that can be ignored?

2024-11-18 18:36:52 UTC

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That is the case. I haven't built anything to share playlists in LNBeats, though I'm sure there's enough there to eventually convert an LNBeats playlist to a RSS feed, but that's not something I'm going to get to anytime soon.
But hey, LNBeats is open source, and Eric wrote the code for playing musicL playlists, so if someone wants to take a stab at it, please do.
https://github.com/thebells1111/lnbeats/

2024-09-18 18:15:53 UTC

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I fixed the registration with The Split Kit. https://www.thesplitkit.com/register
The Split Kit also plays sort of nice with Sovereign Feeds, so you can build your value time splits in The Split Kit, then import them into Sovereign Feeds.

2024-09-10 17:48:22 UTC

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I've updated LNBeats so when the data that's shown for boostagrams is what the song was when you clicked the rocket ship, so even if you have the boostagram screen open and the song changes, the boostagram will be for the song you intended. Let me know if you notice anything off.

2024-09-08 13:29:33 UTC

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I’ll get that fixed. Thanks for letting me know.

2024-09-05 16:47:33 UTC

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Dude, there's something very special about PC2.0. I've never been part of something quite this unique. It's really a bunch of people that are passionate about podcasting and the technology, and giving anyone a voice, and they really are the most helpful people you'll come across.

2024-09-05 16:39:20 UTC

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Check out your address and custom key in your value block. They're not formatted correctly, so boosts aren't able to get through.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/085/930/203/576/140/original/1287925f15001709.png

2024-09-04 20:54:10 UTC

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Others are using TSK for their recorded shows, building out the blocks and setting the startTimes based on the recorded audio, then having TSK spit out the VTS instead of hand rolling it.

2024-09-04 20:52:51 UTC

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That is correct. With TSK, people are doing their live shows, sending the the live value block over socket.io, and there's timers and such built in so when you publish the recorded show, you can turn your live blocks into value time splits pretty easily.

2024-09-04 19:11:17 UTC

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One nice thing about TSK, is you can just build a list of your songs with start times, and it will build something like this for you to paste into your feed. Makes building those valueTimeSplits way easier.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/080/864/637/006/021/original/368c51d5dc394d1e.png

2024-09-04 19:07:47 UTC

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Actually, I just realized I don't have an email registration yet. I'll have to update it to make it so you can register your email without Alby.

2024-09-04 19:04:58 UTC

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Nah, you can log in with email also. It's preferred. And yes, the live updates repo gives you a bare bones client and server to see what's going on behind the scenes. TSK just makes it pretty-ish (I'm no designer) and makes it easy to query the index and build out the json from the found feeds. As you know, hand coding guids is a pain.

2024-09-04 18:47:17 UTC

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It's not in the spec yet, still experimental, but here's the repo for TSK.
https://github.com/thebells1111/thesplitkit
And here's a repo that shows what's going on behind the scenes, but it's just sending the json data across a socket.io, and in the feed is a liveValue tag to let the apps know what socket.io connection to connect to.
https://github.com/thebells1111/live-updates

2024-09-04 18:28:07 UTC

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And he's a damn fine lover too.

2024-08-30 14:49:53 UTC

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I started working on this thing back in April of 22, just never got around to finishing it. Probably got distracted with something else.
It was called Sovereign Page.
Might be what you're looking for.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/051/519/028/929/795/original/35d337c04b0e4675.png
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/051/521/014/328/342/original/76d97b45c5c06bba.png
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2024-08-30 14:31:05 UTC

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Are you just wanting a basic website, something like this?
https://www.bitpunk.fm/@bitpunkfm

2024-08-05 12:25:16 UTC

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Hmm... is there anything I need to update on my end. I didn't realize there was a depreciated API.

2024-07-05 18:04:31 UTC

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I understand and respect that, and I hope you're able to figure out how to turn it into a business. I think TrueFans is great looking app, and you're very innovative with the features you're adding. I wish I had some suggestions, but I'm not sure how to make podcasting profitable as an app when there's so many free options available and RSS is by it's very essence free to access.

2024-07-05 17:59:05 UTC

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You keep mentioning if Apple wasn't free, and I'm not sure how that has any bearing on anything. We have no control over Apple, and the very nature of RSS means that anyone can make a free podcast player, not just Apple.
How would you propose we get around that outside of having the data for a feed inside of some sort of walled garden?

2024-06-18 12:31:17 UTC

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maybe add this to the css for a better mobile experience.
@media (max-width: 550px) {
.cols {
grid-template-columns: repeat(1, 1fr);
}
}

2024-06-14 22:20:46 UTC

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I'm more than happy to stress test it. My wallet is in several valueBlocks, and I can easily update anything I need to when someone updates their feed, so it would be getting a lot of action.

2024-06-11 14:58:26 UTC

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You broke the multiverse!!!

2024-06-11 13:02:05 UTC

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If it's causing errors in LNBeats and Podverse, I'd suspect there's something wrong with the feed then.

2024-06-05 12:50:14 UTC

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Thanks for the bug report. I had the gotoNextSong function called before the handleAutoBoost function🤦
Should be working as expected now.