[PodcastMN] "State-of-the-state" on podcast assembly and "advertising"?

[Ericast .com]

Hey, gang!  I'll keep this atypically short: can anyone weigh in on the
lastest offerings for automated podcast assembly (which is usually discussed
in the context of advertising)?

The big offering was GigaVox Audio Lite (http://cms.gigavox.com) which is
now "Podango Show Builder Lite".

Today, I just came across Castfire (http://www.castfire.com), which seems to
be in the same field -- there's a walkthrough video at
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/podtech-networks/1353-castfire-video.htm

Why do I care?  I'm not looking for adding advertisments, but it would be
awesome if I had some sort of simple show assembly -- start with the date,
run the standard intro, have the content, close with the standard outro...

But one really simple thing that was sorely lacking from the GigaVox tool
was a basic "logic" or "branching".  Sometimes, I add a song at the end of
the podcast, sometimes I don't.  So I need a tool that says, "If X is
present, include it; if not, don't complain".  (When a file is missing from
the assembly script, the GigaVox tool would error out.)

And, in addition, sometimes the inclusion of one thing is dependent on the
other.  For instance, if I recorded the show in three segments instead of
one, then I want to bridge them:  A - random sweeper - B - random sweeper -
C.  So the inclusion of the "random sweepers" is dependent on whether B or C
are present.

It's really not hard to do, but I'm not a programmer so I can't build my own
tool.  :)

Anyway, point being... *is anything else out there?*  Anything that does
this sort of thing?  Can one of you bright folks offer something like, "Hey,
Eric, haven't you heard of PodWhacker.com?!?" or whatever?

Thoughts?

Hope you all had (and are having) happy holidays!

---Eric Larson (Ericast.com... which hasn't quite podfaded yet, despite my
horribly irregular podcasting schedule)
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