XRAY.fm

Multi-tenant podcast hosting. Shows, episodes, feeds, and access controls handled in a single Laravel/Vue platform that could host XRAY's own programming alongside external podcasts operating under their umbrella.

RSS import and syndication. If a show was already being hosted elsewhere, the platform could either migrate it fully onto XRAY's storage or syndicate it — keeping the original host as the source of truth while XRAY distributed and played the content through their own infrastructure. That kind of broadcast-syndication pattern is common in traditional radio and uncommon in podcasting tools, and it's the kind of thing you only build if you understand how a radio station actually thinks about its catalog. The pipeline included full RSS/XML validation, which matters more than it sounds like it matters — podcast feeds in the wild are a mess.

Dynamic ad stitching. The headline feature. A show could be configured to insert ads — either hand-picked or randomly selected from a subset — and the platform would analyze each episode to find an appropriate insertion point near the configured target time. Not just the nearest pause, but the nearest appreciable pause: a gap long enough to be a natural break in speech rather than a beat between sentences. The insertion itself handled crossfading and volume normalization between the host audio and the ad, so listeners got a clean stitched result rather than the volume cliff most platforms produce.

Custom audio player. A from-scratch Vue-based player with scrubbing, playlist construction, and the kind of control surface a listener actually wants — not a generic embed. (An earlier Vue 2 version of this player lives in a private repo; I may port it to Vue 3 eventually and release it.)