Bienvenido 👋

Castopod es una plataforma gratuita y de código abierto para hospedar podcasts hecha para podcasters que quieren involucrar e interactuar más con su audiencia.

Castopod es fácil de instalar y se ha desarrollado sobre CodeIgniter4, un potente y muy ligero framework PHP.

Instalación

Características

🌱 Gratis & de código abierto (licencia AGPL v3).
🔐 Centrado en la soberanía de los datos: tu contenido, tu audiencia, y tus estadísticas te pertenecen a ti y solo a ti.
🪄 Funciones de Podcasting 2.0: GUID (interfaz gráfica de usuario), protección y bloqueo del podcast, transcripciones, monetización, episodios, geo-localización, personas, fragmentos de audio, …
💬 Integración con redes sociales:
- 🚀 Castopod es parte del Fediverso, una red social descentralizada
- ❤️ Se puede crear mensajes, compartir, agregar a favoritos y comentar en episodios
📈 Análisis estadísticos integrados:
- ⚖️ Compatible con GDPR / CCPA / LGPD
- 🪙 Medida de audiencia con el estándar IABv2
- 🏡 On-premises analytics, no third party involved
📢 Herramientas de marketing incorporadas:
- ✅ Listo para SEO (meta-etiquetas de open-graph, JSON-LD, …)
- 📱 PWA: instalable como una aplicación independiente
- 🎨 Personalizar los colores del tema
- 🎬 Generar recortes de vídeo listos para compartir, a partir de tus episodios
- 🔉 Generate soundbites
- ▶️ Reproductor incrustable, con el que insertar tus episodios en cualquier sitio web!
💸 Monetización:
- 🔗 Enlaces de financiación
- 📲 Anuncios publicitarios del tipo click-para-escuchar
- 🤝 value4value / WebMonetization (criptomonedas para creadores de contenido).
- 💎 Premium podcasts
📡 Publica tus episodios en todas partes con RSS:
- 📱 En todos los directorios y aplicaciones: Podcast Index, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Podfriend, …
- ⚡ Emite tus episodios al instante con WebSub.
📥 Importación de podcasts: mueve tu podcast existente en otro servicio a tu servidor Castopod.
📤 Mueve tu podcast fuera de Castopod.
🔀 Multi-podcast: aloja tantos podcasts como quieras en una misma instancia/panel de CASTOPOD.
👥 Multi-usuario: añade colaboradores y define roles.
🌎 Soporte multilingüe i18n: traducido al Inglés, Francés, Polaco, Alemán, Portugués brasileño, Español, Noruego, … ¡y más por venir!

Motivación

The podcasting ecosystem is decentralized by nature: you can create your podcast as an RSS file, publish it on the web and have it shared everywhere online.

It is in fact one of the only media to have stayed this way for a long time.

As usages are evolving, more and more people are getting into podcasts: whether it is creators finding new ways to share their ideas, or listeners in the search for better content.

With podcasting becoming more widely used, some companies are trying to shift it towards a more controlled and centralized medium.

Castopod was created in an effort to provide an open and sustainable alternative to hosting your podcasts, promoting decentralization to ensure that podcasters creativity can express itself.

This project is pushed by the open-source community, and specifically by the Fediverse and Podcasting 2.0 movements.

Comparación con otras soluciones

We believe that a solution is not necessarily right for everyone, it highly depends on your needs. So, here are comparisons with other tools to help you to gauge whether Castopod is the right fit for you.

Castopod vs. Wordpress

Castopod is often referred to as “the Wordpress for podcasts” because of the similarities between the two. In some ways this is true. And actually, Castopod was greatly inspired by the Wordpress ecosystem, seeing the ease of adoption from the community and the number of websites running it.

Just like Wordpress, Castopod is free & open source, built using PHP with a MySQL database and is packaged in a way that you can easily install on most web servers.

Wordpress is a great way to create your website and extend it with plugins to get what you want. It is a full fledged CMS that helps you get any type of website online.

On the other hand, Castopod is meant to address the podcasters needs specifically, focusing on podcasting, and nothing else. You don’t need any plugin to get you started on your podcasting journey.

This allows optimizing the processes specific to podcasting: ranging from the creation of your podcasts and the publication of new episodes all the way to broadcasting, marketing and analytics.

Finally, depending on your needs, Wordpress and Castopod can even live side by side as they share the same requirements!

Castopod vs. Funkwhale

Funkwhale is a self-hosted, modern free and open-source music server. Just as Castopod, Funkwhale is on the fediverse, a decentralized social network allowing interoperability between the two.

Funkwhale was initially built around music. And later on, as the project evolved, the ability to host podcasts was introduced.

Unlike Funkwhale, Castopod has been designed and built around podcasting exclusively. This allows easier implementation for features related to the podcasting ecosystem, such as the podcasting 2.0 features (transcripts, chapters, locations, persons, …).

So, you should probably use Funkwhale if you want to host your music, and use Castopod if you want to host your podcasts.

Castopod vs. otras plataformas de podcast

There are many solutions for you to host your podcasts, some of which are really great and a lot of them are jumping into the Podcasting 2.0 wagon just like Castopod!

Each of these solutions differ from one another, you may compare with the list of features.

That being said, there are two main differences with other podcasting solutions:

Castopod puede ser auto-hospedado en tu propio servidor y es la única solución que te permite mantener un control completo sobre los contenidos que produces. También, como es de código abierto, puedes incluso personalizarlo como desees y necesites.
Castopod es la única solución que hasta el momento integra tanto una red social descentralizada con ActivityPub así como muchas de las características del podcasting 2.0, con la esperanza de cerrar la brecha entre ambos.

Contributing

Love Castopod and would like to help? Take a look at the following documentation to get you started.

Código de conducta

Castopod has adopted a Code of Conduct that we expect project participants to adhere to. Please read the CODE_OF_CONDUCT manual so that you can understand what actions will and will not be tolerated.

Guía para colaborar

Read our contributing guide to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes to Castopod.

Contacto

You may reach us for help or ask any question you have on:

Discord (para interacción directa con desarrolladores y la comunidad)
Seguimiento de incidencias (para informar de errores y solicitar nuevas funcionalidades)

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