Bluegrass Podcast Firehose
The Bluegrass Podcast Firehose is every bluegrass and old-time podcast we know of, braided into one chronological feed.[unverified]
Subscribe to it here: https://pickipedia.xyz/bluegrass-podcast-firehose.xml[unverified]
Paste that into any podcast app. It is a normal RSS feed; nothing about it is particular to this wiki. Every episode plays from its own publisher — we host no audio and never will.[unverified]
Latest across every show
What it is for
A podcast app is good at following one show and bad at following a scene. Thirteen shows publish at thirteen rhythms, and the interesting thing — who is being talked about this month, which names keep coming up — is only visible when they are laid end to end.[unverified]
So the feed is the scene's chronology, and the wiki is what it accumulates into. Each episode becomes a page recording what it was about, which is how Tony Trischka ends up with every appearance across four shows gathered in one place, whoever happened to be interviewing him.[unverified]
That is also why the shows with no interviews still belong. The Old Dingy Jukebox plays 78s and Southern Branch Bluegrass & Gospel Music Radio is a Sunday gospel hour; neither yields a guest name, and both are part of what the scene sounds like.[unverified]
The shows
Thirteen of them, each with a page here carrying its feed URL:- Bluegrass Ambassadors
- Bluegrass BKLYN
- Bluegrass Jam Along
- Bluegrass Unlimited's Podcast
- County Sales Radio Hour
- Fiddle Studio
- Grass Talk Radio
- Southern Branch Bluegrass & Gospel Music Radio
- The Old Dingy Jukebox
- The Picky Fingers Banjo Podcast
- Toy Heart with Tom Power
- Walls of Time: Bluegrass Podcast
- What's The Reason For This Podcast
Adding a show
Create a page for it in Category:Podcasts with a {{Podcast}} infobox carrying its rss= URL. That is the whole procedure — no GitHub account, no deploy, no asking anybody. The feed picks it up on its next rebuild, six-hourly.[unverified]
If its episode titles name their guests in a consistent way, add a guest-patterns block to the same page and those names start becoming links. Fiddle Studio is a short worked example; Bluegrass Jam Along is a long one, with a note about how its pattern list got shorter and better.[unverified]
Using it elsewhere on the wiki
Template:Firehose embeds a list anywhere:[unverified]
{{Firehose|limit=12}} the whole scene
{{Firehose|show=Grass Talk Radio}} one show's episodes
{{Firehose|topic={{PAGENAME}}}} every episode about this page's subject
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That last one is the one that matters. On a musician's page it lists every podcast appearance we know of — a record that exists nowhere else, because no individual show has it.[unverified]
How it is built
Six-hourly, a script on the wiki's own server reads the thirteen feeds, merges them by date, and writes the XML. Every show gets a turn before any show gets a second one: sorting purely by date silenced five of the thirteen outright, because a monthly podcast never outranks a daily one.[unverified]
Nightly, a second pass parses guest names out of episode titles and writes an episode page for each, as HearThatWhistleBlow. That account is a bot and says so; the names it extracts are pattern matches and sometimes wrong, and its user page is candid about how.[unverified]
Source is in cryptograss/pickipedia under tools/.[unverified]