Dovydas

Building fountain.fm

Fountain: https://fountain.fm
Website: https://dovydas.com
GitHub: https://github.com/joksas
Name pronunciation: DAW-vee-dus

Public Key

npub1gfnrx2n6l5ztlmg2jmu26xxakuvgl32d3u6d4y2h3fz53hm0pe4sv9mk8j

NIP-05 Address

dovydas_at_podcastindex.social@momostr.pink

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsyye3n9fa06p9la59fd79drrwmwxy0c4xc7dx6j9tc532gmahsu6cpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsz5uz4c

Publishing to

relay.nostr.bg

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1gfnrx2n6l5ztlmg2jmu26xxakuvgl32d3u6d4y2h3fz53hm0pe4sv9mk8j

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Last Notes

2026-03-07 19:29:58 UTC

My job? RSS. My side projects? Also RSS.
I built Wild RSS a few months ago to help spot issues in podcast RSS feeds. It's far from complete, but it validates against namespace specs, flags best practice issues, and catches things I've seen break in the wild. Deciding what's a warning vs an error is tricky though - what fails in one app might work just fine in another.
https://wildrss.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.podcastindex.org%2Fpc20.xml

2025-12-12 09:42:17 UTC

HLS plays natively in Chromium now 🥳
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40057824

2025-12-04 23:10:29 UTC

We've massively improved the video experience on Fountain desktop - try it out here: https://fountain.fm/episode/bb3MURtHHVbPFkvvDpTc
This is part of our bigger push to show what open video podcasting can look like. I break it down in a blog post: https://blog.fountain.fm/p/video-podcasts
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/115/663/817/278/034/958/original/bba2da9a272d1d42.webp

2025-11-11 13:49:51 UTC

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interesting concept

2025-07-28 15:31:31 UTC

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yeah, it's been fun yesterday https://podcastindex.social/@rssblue/114924784486237603

2025-07-27 09:38:33 UTC

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John Spurlock @npub1g2v…achf

2025-05-20 22:52:03 UTC

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Apple Podcasts RSS errors are always cryptic. And I'm not sure what "Artist" refers to in this case?
Is there an RSS feed I can look at?

2025-01-16 22:29:34 UTC

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https://rssblue.com/static/dist/feeds/deck-darlings.xml

2025-01-12 22:03:59 UTC

https://liveislit.com

2024-12-16 22:46:51 UTC

https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/664/931/092/240/748/original/b53e7bf225e0c2bb.png

2024-12-16 11:24:47 UTC

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Yesterday: https://live.phantompowermusic.io/independent-music-summit
Today: https://live.phantompowermusic.io/boostagram-ball-live

2024-12-15 15:40:01 UTC

sad
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/657/590/425/155/119/original/905e5403aab2e249.png

2024-09-26 20:07:12 UTC

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I think @npub1g2v…achf downloads full PI DB every week?

2024-09-20 10:02:49 UTC

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Refreshed!

2024-09-20 04:41:59 UTC

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That's correct.
<podcast:publisher> tag was added late, and although RSS Blue now supports it, there are feeds that haven't been refreshed for a long time.
So this (with build date Fri, 03 May 2024 08:48:01 GMT) doesn't have it
https://feeds.rssblue.com/tempered
But this (with build date Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:40:47 GMT)
has it
https://feeds.rssblue.com/my-crutch-live-from-bands-at-bitcoin
I'll make sure to refresh all feeds.

2024-09-18 18:47:28 UTC

I went on a podcast to talk about podcasting! And we also play RSS-based music!
https://episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5yc3NibHVlLmNvbS9yYWRpby1kZXRveA/episode/YzY1ODJhOWMtZWM1Ni01NTc2LThlMzgtZmU4MjhkMzQ2MjY4

2024-09-17 14:21:40 UTC

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Haven't used Damus, but a common cause of having spikes in certain apps is due to those apps downloading the audio automatically when the page loads.

2024-09-11 06:51:25 UTC

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https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/117/592/025/780/485/original/54028cdf6b33b6f6.png

2024-09-10 19:32:25 UTC

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Looking good!
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/114/922/053/479/187/original/4fb3520879a38059.png

2024-09-08 18:21:38 UTC

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Oh, so using Podcast Index API with write permissions instead of Podping? (https://podcastindex-org.github.io/docs-api/#get-/add/byfeedurl) Interesting.

2024-09-08 17:41:51 UTC

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wait, really? I thought that changed after December guidpocalypse. I see most of Wavlake tracks on the Index these days. If it's not @npub16rt…fjkv submitting them, then who?

2024-09-02 05:08:41 UTC

@npub12fy…g0wg ep 57 of Sats and Sounds has a future publish date.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/066/226/884/100/354/original/66a925f20201ec92.png

2024-08-28 12:22:57 UTC

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oh, don't worry, it's just a few clicks. Didn't have to use raw sql 😂

2024-08-28 08:12:33 UTC

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Just added! https://publishers.rssblue.com/davejones
For now, I'm doing a lot of this manually because I've been using these mostly for music, and it gets complicated when songs are hosted across several providers.

2024-08-27 21:29:43 UTC

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Here's a JSON with a bunch of them!
https://publishers.rssblue.com/api/all

2024-08-27 05:08:02 UTC

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that's a great idea!!! Still essentially no support for playlists among the apps, but this is a great use case (outside of listener-generated playlists), I'll talk to app devs.
Another use case is charts: https://podcastindex.social/@dovydas/112548029877685685

2024-08-21 17:18:12 UTC

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's transcript search tool
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/113/001/144/112/673/494/original/f05d635f736afc54.png

2024-08-20 06:57:20 UTC

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I'd love that too!
https://podcastindex.social/@dovydas/111800902518773520
In postgres I use `unaccent` (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/unaccent.html). Not sure if you have something like that in your DB, Dave.

2024-08-18 16:05:08 UTC

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weird, I can see two Lithuanian podcasts on this screen lol

2024-08-06 20:05:58 UTC

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it would be nice to have a <style> tag apply to only certain elements. It seems that such proposal had existed, but was eventually rejected.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/16844668/7027465
https://caniuse.com/style-scoped

2024-08-06 19:44:32 UTC

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Do you mean `style` attribute of HTML elements? I think there are CSS features that cannot be replicated using that alone, e.g. media queries.
What if you just embedded the generated CSS inside <style> tag inside <head>?

2024-08-06 14:04:09 UTC

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I emailed Mike.

2024-08-05 11:30:19 UTC

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Hey, I remember that! It's me, Dolby das!
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/112/909/183/088/541/768/original/0775102e76e9b61f.png

2024-08-01 11:08:01 UTC

British Library
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/112/886/445/461/534/697/original/997c412b8f97cb1b.png

2024-06-24 21:37:13 UTC

@npub12fy…g0wg your June 21 Retrograde episode pubdate got updated to today for some reason
https://satsandsounds.com/saspodcast.xml

2024-05-10 11:26:24 UTC

@npub1thg…zq23 @npub1p7v…qql0 @npub1cwm…wcs6 @npub18pr…4h6r
If anyone would like to implement @npub18a6…pny4's <podcast:liveValue> (live changes during livestreams), I've created a stream that automatically changes blocks every minute.
You can find the relevant information here: https://gist.github.com/joksas/1cd95bdfc774bdf97c591d9a14b48f0e
For reference, you can check out CurioCaster (@npub18a6…pny4) and Podcast Guru (@npub1qvx…hseu @npub10lz…tuwr), which have implemented this.