I use Ansible to deploy a bunch of containers with intradependencies (shared volumes, networks and settings). One of the containers is homemade with the source pulled from codeberg. Variables are kept in a separate file and passwords in an encrypted one and the whole thing is in a private repo. It is quite flexible.

When I started out converting from compose, I literally asked Copilot for “this, but in Ansible”, which got me pretty far.

This has huge potential. What I personally look for in a podcast solution is:

• Web/desktop player
• Sync between players (down to seconds)
• Organize subscribed podcasts with folders/tags
• Per podcast/folder/tag settings for “automatically add to queue”
• Some way of dealing with older (backlog) episodes (built-in or via an API)

For now, I’m using Pocketcasts which pretty much does what I need, except for handling the backlog, which I do with a homemade python-script that adds backlog episodes to my playlist whenever it has less than 4 hours of playtime left, using Pocketcast’s web player REST API. The result is an endless playlist where newly released episodes are played within a few hours and older episodes are sprinkled on with no real need for micro-managing episodes in the playlist.

It looks like web/desktop players and sync is already in scope, but are there any “advanced” podcast organization features on your roadmap?

That is not correct. Prowlarr also searches Newznab-compatible providers (i.e. most nzb-indexers).