Podcasts?

[paul cooke]

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 21:47, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > What's the best podcasting software currently, for reading?  Or is there
> > none?  I recall Hoary had people scrambling to decide between
> > GnomeBaker, xcdroast, et al for CD burning; should we be watching
> > Rhythmbox and GNOME for iPod support integration and thinking about what
> > kinds of podcasting/iPod software should come along standard/main?
> >
> > [1] http://www.1up.com/flat/Podcasts/podcasts.xml
>
> I use nowadays Google Reader (http://reader.google.com) for all my rss
> feeds, blogs, podcasts, etc.  I played in the last few months with
> ipodder, liferea, blam and penguintv
> (http://penguintv.sourceforge.net).   But since I listen to podcasts
> from various computers at work or at home, having an online way of
> subscribing and keeping track of which one I have seen before is best
> served by something available remotely via a web browser instead of an
> installed application.
>

I'm just getting to grips with bashpodder and a crontab to do the scheduled 
downloading for me while I sleep... then it's just a matter of stuffing the 
downloaded directory full of fresh files onto an SD card for me to listen to 
on my Tungsten E while on the way to work. I don't do any podcast downloads 
at all while at work, the network bandwidth to the outside world is 
pathetic...

bashpodder is just some 40 lines of bash shellscript... calling up other 
helper applications like wget and some xml parsing stuff. And using a crontab 
to launch it means I don't have to remain logged in for it to work.

methinks I might investigate PenguinTV...