iTunes Podcast Search

Music Assistant has support for iTunes Podcast Searching. Contributed and maintained by Fabian Munkes

Apple’s podcast directory is the largest index of podcasts on the internet, and the one the Podcasts app on an iPhone searches. Anyone publishing a feed can be listed in it, free of charge.

This source lets you search that directory from Music Assistant and add anything you find to your library. The episodes themselves are streamed from the podcast’s own feed rather than from Apple.

Features

Subscription FREE	Yes
Self-Hosted Local Media	No
Media Types Supported	Podcasts
Recommendations Supported	Yes
Lyrics Supported	No
Endless Mix	No
Artist Top Tracks Support	No
Similar Artists Support	No
Similar Tracks Support	No
Maximum Stream Quality	Lossy variable bitrate
Login Method	None

Other

• Search for podcasts via the iTunes API

Configuration

• Configure your country
• Specify the Maximum number of episodes to be retrieved (use 0 for all)
• Optionally disable explicit results

Known Issues / Notes

• The search results may contain video podcasts due to the inability to filter them out
• If a podcast is desired to be part of the MA library, you have to add it, or mark it as a favorite. This source is search only
• If a podcast does not appear in the search results, but is known to be freely available on Apple Podcast, this may be because content creators are permitted to hide the RSS feed within the Apple Podcast’s source. Without the feed URL this source is unable to access the media information (an INFO log message will appear in the MA log if this is the case). One solution is to try and search the web for an RSS feed URL for your specific podcast(s). If it exists, use the Podcast RSS Feed to add it to MA manually. The other option is to try and find it on one of the other podcast sources
• When a sync is done on this provider the sync will update the episode list. If a podcast feed is not accessible during the sync, this podcast will remain in its previous state