Wavecast Radio

Wavecast uses Hugo front matter to configure episodes for both the player and the podcast RSS feed.

Audio Player Front Matter

Add a podcast: key to any page’s YAML front matter to render a player:

Field	Required	Description
`podcast.src`	yes	Audio URL or local file path
`podcast.poster`	no	Cover image URL
`podcast.chapters`	no	Comma-separated `HH:MM:SS-Label` pairs
`podcast.description`	no	Markdown show notes rendered below player
`podcast.source`	no	Source adapter: `"local"`, `"azuracast"`, `"ivoox"`
`podcast.persistent`	no	Set to `false` to disable navigation persistence

You can also pass these directly as shortcode parameters:

For iTunes-compatible podcast RSS feeds, add additional fields to podcast: in your episode front matter:

Field	Type	Default	Description
`podcast.src`	string	:	Enclosure URL (required for feed inclusion)
`podcast.type`	string	`"audio/mpeg"`	MIME type for the enclosure
`podcast.duration`	string	:	Duration as `HH:MM:SS` or integer seconds
`podcast.season`	int	:	iTunes season number
`podcast.episode`	int	:	iTunes episode number
`podcast.explicit`	bool	:	Overrides site-level explicit flag
`podcast.author`	string	:	Overrides site-level podcast author
`podcast.guid`	string	Permalink	Unique episode identifier
`podcast.episodeType`	string	`"full"`	`"full"`, `"trailer"`, or `"bonus"`
`podcast.subtitle`	string	:	Short teaser (max 255 chars)
`podcast.summary`	string	:	Full description (max 4000 chars)

Global podcast metadata goes in hugo.toml under [params.podcast]:

Scenario	RSS output
No `[params.podcast]` in config	Standard RSS 2.0 (suitable for blogs)
`[params.podcast]` with `author`, `image`, or `description`	Full iTunes podcast RSS with `itunes:` namespace
Episode has `podcast.src` (local file)	Enclosure with `length` auto-resolved from Hugo resources
Episode has `podcast.src` (remote URL)	Enclosure with `length="0"`
Episode has NO `podcast.src`	Omitted from feed entirely

The feed is available at /index.xml. Validate at validator.w3.org/feed.