Does anyone out there have a favorite Linux program for downloading podcasts? I've been using Chess Griffin's mashpodder but (a) it's now abandonware, and (b) due to the way it identifies files, it doesn't work with modern podcasts where the base name of the file is always "media.mp3" and the earlier parts of the URL change. As such, I'm looking for a replacement, preferably something that I can run as a cron job so that it fires every day without any intervention on my part and where the configuration lives in a file that I can edit with a simple text editor like vim. I'm considering rolling my own in Python just to get more experience with that language, but I thought I'd see if any Soylentils had suggestions for me to check out before I went to the effort of doing that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:10PM
You're on Linux? Yes.
You like config files? Yes.
You like the command line? Yes.
http://www.bebik.net/doku.php?id=software:podcastdl [bebik.net]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:13PM (3 children)
Just curl the page text, sed that text to winnow down to your URL, wget to download if the filenames don't already exist (or don't match a log of previous downloads). Put it in a bash script, set it up in cron, and be done.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:55PM (1 child)
A real man would figure out how to do this using emacs.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @12:55AM
I'm a man, yes I am, and I can't help but love you so*:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emms/manual/#Quickstart-Guide [gnu.org]
If this doesn't do it out of the box, it's written in emacs-lisp, so hack away!
* https://hooktube.com/watch?v=4_gFF-z9OS8 [hooktube.com]
I knew the chorus, but never worked out the lyrics -- which are shown at the link.
(Score: 1) by Nofsck Ingcloo on Friday July 27 2018, @06:26PM
Already done. I have been happily using bashpodder http://lincgeek.org/bashpodder/ [lincgeek.org] for a couple of years. I made a couple of tweaks, and now it runs on cron overnight.
1984 was not written as an instruction manual.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:32PM (7 children)
I'd roll my own but that's just the kind of guy I am. It'd be dirt simple if they have RSS feeds of the podcasts.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:18PM (2 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Friday July 27 2018, @12:50PM (1 child)
Oh yeah sure let me sign up for some local comp.sci courses first....
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday July 27 2018, @02:09PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @02:23AM (3 children)
I once tried to build The Siterip Toolkit on top of wget, but eventually concluded that for it to really work I'd have to write native code that links to libcurl.
On the bright side, I was able to download a vast quantity of pr0n, it's just that I was never able to download all the pr0n on any of my test websites.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 27 2018, @10:34AM (2 children)
While obviously an upstanding motivation, I dislike scraping pages when we now have APIs or feeds as alternative data sources.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @11:27AM
However it does enable using one's mouse to download its videos.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @11:35AM
That will happen when I introduce some automation to the site.
There will be different kinds of feeds: every new company anywhere on the planet, new companies for each country as well as for the European Union, new companies for each city and so on.
My much older and admittedly far-wiser mentor upon growing weary of urging me to use PHP and MySQL offered to import the entire site into MySQL for me, but after thinking it over I'm actually going to decline his offer.
Instead I'll use a combination of Subversion with a multiply-redundant offsite SVN repository backup that's rolled after each commit.
All of the automated tools I will use to edit the site will run locally on my machine, which is also set up so that "jobs.velvet" serves my Mac's local copy of the site; that enables Server-Side Includes to work locally.
My repo will be on my server. A post-commit hook will check out the tree to a staging host. A script that requires root will check out the tree to the live site.
My very first tool will be some manner of tool that enables me to enter all the locations of a given company all at once. That specification will be a text file at first but later I'll do a GUI.
If I had just that my rate of publishing new locations would multiply by one or two orders of magnitude. Consider that Oracle isn't a database publisher, it's a consultancy.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Appalbarry on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:41PM (2 children)
OK, it's Android, not Linux specifically, but I want to shout out to the excellent Podcast Addict. [google.com] As far as I can tell there is no feature known that isn't configurable on multiple levels. The downside is a more or less endless set of menus, levels, and sub-levels. The positive is that the developer Xavier Guillemane actually maintains it and (GASP!) responds to emails quickly and politely.
A bit of a steep learning curve, but smooth sailing after that.
(Score: 1) by zoward on Friday July 27 2018, @06:59PM
Seconded. I submitted a problem I was having and got a response directly from Xavier in less than two hours.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Friday July 27 2018, @08:18PM
I haven't tried Podcast Addict. I use AntennaPod myself and have been satisfied with the level of quality. Unfortunately they do not have a Linux version.
http://antennapod.org/ [antennapod.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:01PM (1 child)
Not sure if it can run as a cron job but you could use AutoKey to automate your daily downloads.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:05PM
It's got a command-line interface (gpo) so it probably suits the OP's needs.
(Score: 2) by f4r on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:06PM
Do not use as directed.
(Score: 1) by lars on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:12PM
Phone apps are the best/most popular now. Why not use one, and make the desktop shortcut to your podcasts a link to the emulator.
The search functionality and file management features of them are great. I use podcast addict.
(Score: 3, Informative) by romlok on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:17PM
I've been using gPodder as my desktop podcast client for many years. It's primarily a Gtk app but does include a command-line interface, though I don't know how extensive the CLI functionality is.
And, if you do decide to roll something yourself, gPodder split out their podcastparser [github.com] library for other Python projects to use. You might think that podcast feeds should be pretty simple to parse, but web developers tend to have a "special" relationship with standards-compliance, so using an established parsing library could save you a bunch of headaches.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by requerdanos on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:18PM (21 children)
If you are downloading an audio program for later listening, and you don't have immediate plans to place it onto an Apple(r) iPod(r) brand DRM delivery device, then the thing you are downloading is probably an "audio program" and not a "Podcast".
Granted, an enormous proliferation of audio publishers as well as a wide swath of audio program downloading utilities believe that the Apple(r) iPod(r) DRM delivery device must be involved at least enough to call any audio program a "Podcast".
It might be tempting to go along with such a large number of people in their wrongness, except that prerecorded audio programs existed for many decades before Apple(r) DRM efforts began.
I am not suggesting that the poster or that those replying don't already know this; just pointing it out because the wrongness will persist all the longer if we go along with it. (*Especially* if we falsely say "language changes and evolves, so we should go along with things which are wrong and/or idiotic and excuse it on that basis", something I specifically entourage you never to do.)
(Score: 2) by everdred on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:35PM
If you are downloading audio content via an RSS feed with attachments, it's a podcast.
(Score: 4, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday July 27 2018, @01:10AM (15 children)
Normally I like arguments for preserving meaning of terms when it is useful. (Though trying to deny language evolves is ridiculous too.)
But in this case, I don't know there's a strong case for your association. The word "pod" was not coined by Apple; long before the iPod, it was a word for a container of various sorts (which the iPod played off of in its name). Apple's attempts to trademark the term "pod" thus failed [wikipedia.org] when they attempted to restrict the word into a proprietary-only context.
And the history of the term "podcast" doesn't really bear out your analysis [wikipedia.org] either. "Podcasts" were not named as such by Apple, but rather by 3rd-party developers who were working on more generalized applications of RSS feeds and audio, though admittedly at first developing tech in the medium of the iPod. Apple didn't jump on the podcast bandwagon and develop proprietary apps to handle them etc. for roughly a year after the term had been used to refer to such tech.
Even dictionary definitions of the time say nothing about a proprietary implication for the term. The New Oxford American Dictionary (among others) named it Word of the Year in 2005 [chicagotribune.com] and defined it thus:
No mention of Apple, iPods, or other proprietary implications.
[By the way, just to note that this is frequently how erroneous linguistic pedantry gets started. Someone looks at a word and thinks it looks like it mean something different or distinct from the common meaning. Generally the argument is based on some logic -- often involving etymology, either real or imaginary -- but NOT on the actual linguistic usage of the term. That person then makes an argument in some place it might get notice -- historically a book on usage, a magazine likely to have pedantic readers -- and thus a fictionalized usage history takes hold. For years, decades, or centuries afterward, pedants repeat such baseless claims, using these often entirely spurious arguments as markers between what they perceive as those "in the know" (obviously like themselves) vs. heathens who are destroying the language.]
[Also, by the way, I'm a recovering pedant myself. I used to get angry at a lot of things until I bought several dictionaries that contain histories of English usage and discovered maybe 75% of the "rules" people get mad about were never actually reflections of real-world usage, but instead were made up by some ignorant grammar nazi based on nothing but his own opinion.]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @02:21AM (7 children)
During the rises of Fascism and Communism, George Orwell spoke of the vital importance of saying or writing precisely what you intend to express.
I at first wrote "mean to express" but that would not have been as precise as "intend to express".
I now longer say "Most Portlanders call Pioneer Courthouse Square 'Pioneer Square'", rather I say "Most Portland residents denote Pioneer Courthouse Square as 'Pioneer Square'".
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday July 27 2018, @02:45AM (6 children)
Precision of language is obviously important, but such precision is only meaningful if it succeeds in communicating MEANING, as language is fundamentally about communication, and it depends on social usage to convey that meaning.
If you try to use a word in a way that you think is "precise" but 99.99% of English speakers actually understand the word to mean something else, youe attempt at "precision" has failed. There are all sorts of words in English that don't follow logically what their form or etymology would suggest, but over enough time we've forgotten most of those "imprecisions." (I could point out a number of examples of such problems in this conversation alone, though many date back to issues in Middle English or earlier.)
Language evolves, and the best we can do is use the clearest meanings possible for the clearest communication as it is actually understood by speakers of English.
Is there an argument for OP's differentiation of "podcast" from other similar terms? Sure, I suppose. Except that's NOT what the term "podcast" currently means or really ever meant. If OP or you want to suggest a proposal to change the meaning of "podcast," by all means do so. Try it out with friends. Try to get it to spread. Most likely, you'll fail, because I don't think there's much use for a term that only denotes "netcasts running only on iPods," as the podcast standards usually allow much broader usage.
Nevertheless, if you want to propose an alternative terminology, do it. Just don't pretend that your usage is what the words already mean or other people are "wrong" for using a term in the way 99.99% of the population understand it. That's not how language works.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @04:32AM (4 children)
There is an institute in Paris which introduce new words into the strictly-regulated French language.
For example the French word for "Walkman" is "Baladeur". I Am Absolutely Serious.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday July 27 2018, @07:42AM (3 children)
Yes, I'm quite aware of this, as I have a pretty decent knowledge of French. Your point? Are you advocating for this approach?
Because the French aren't by any means the only language with this sort of body. And most such bodies are only successful in guiding linguistic change when they take the lead (e.g. in coining new technology words immediately before other terms like foreign borrowings take root). When they try to fight established usage or neologisms that have already become common, they're generally not very successful.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @08:07AM (2 children)
It's unlawful for Quebec businesses to display signage that's written in English.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @10:15AM
Is it also unlawful for MichaelDavidCrawford to post a factually correct statement?
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday July 27 2018, @12:53PM
LOL. Somehow I only just realized you're trolling me. Perhaps because I like to imagine good faith in posts.
Oh, well. Yet another poster here I shall now cease to communicate with. I don't waste my time with people who deliberately waste my time. It's been weird, Mr. Crawford!
Cheers!
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday July 27 2018, @04:17PM
As you observe, the meaning of the word "iPod" and the meaning of the word "pod" are intertwined into the "podcast" idea (and given that a Pod is just a cozy container, and an iPod an audio player, there is impetus for gravitation towards interpreting it as "iPod").
Non-Apple-Fanboy people who make audio programs generally do not mean "a cast for your iPod" making something they call a podcast, and non-Apple-fanboy people who download audio programs generally do not mean "a cast for my iPod" when they download something they call a "podcast". Non-Apple-fanboys who work to create internet standards and the relevant software ecosystem to support standardized audio download generally don't mean "A cast for iPods" when they call the subject of the standards and software "podcasts".
Key there is non-Apple-fanboys. I have met people who have only a Macbook, an iPhone, an iPad, an iPod, etc. who have asked, with puzzled looks, how you could play a podcast without an iPod? Do "mp3 players" (another misnomer) play them too?
Another class of people sometimes confused by the (negligently confusing) terminology is people whose thing is not tech. "You listen to that there podcast, huh? What, you need one of them Mac Pods to listen to that or something? They got that at Best Buy, or you got to go to an Apple store?"
By not calling audio programs by a trendy apple-fanboy sounding name, this can be avoided.
It's not just the language and the poor sensibilities of the two classes of intellectually impaired persons above that I am concerned about; as a free software proponent I begrudge the proprietary walled-garden approach folks every cubic millimeter of mindshare. Audio programs, played on a computer or an audio player.
I don't think we need to "change the meaning of podcast"--that isn't the problem. I just don't want to redefine the perfectly good concept "audio program" and shoehorn it into the partly sensible, partly nonsense term "podcast".
Plenty of people are doing that already, and if that sticks over the long term then the language will have evolved for better or worse. Many evolving features of language are for the better--they help us interpret the evolving and changing world in a meaningful way--but I oppose this particular change*, and if it happens, it won't be because I didn't mention that I think it's an ill-advised direction in which to deliberately nudge the language.
Thus, if the word sticks (which it will or it won't), it won't be partly my fault; rather, it will be over my objection stated for the record.
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* Lots of people hear something like this and assert that since changes happen, all changes must be good ones, even the bad ones, and everyone should embrace all changes, good or bad, because all changes are good whether they are good or bad. This is insipidly stupid, but serves their purpose (to avoid intelligent discourse). I am assuming you are not such a person, and if you are, then I apologize for all these complicated words, and substitute for them a simple mild insult.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday July 27 2018, @02:31AM
Note: I realize I misspoke in the claims about my first link. It was not Apple who tried to trademark "podcast," but nevertheless the attempt to trademark the term failed. And aside from some early posturing, Apple has not attempted to control the term, likely because they knew any such attempt would fail legally.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Friday July 27 2018, @02:31PM (5 children)
For example, it's commonly accepted that English has three tenses; past, present, future. Latin actually has them, English does not. Observe:
Last week I *went* to school. (simple past)
Each day I *go* to school. (simple present)
Tomorrow I *am* going to school. (NOT a simple future!)
English doesn't actually have a future tense, we actually have multiple ways of indicating future but we don't have a verb tense to do it, like Latin had. We just keep telling generation after generation that we do, because the grammarians historically thought Latin was more prestigious and therefore tried to make English look more like Latin than it really is.
At any rate, in regard to 'podcast' I think it's an awful word and it should be avoided; for two main reasons. First, it's redundant. What we're talking about is an audio file. There's already a perfectly good phrase for that - audio file. It's clear, unambiguous, easy to understand - there's simply no need for a redundant phrase to refer to an audio file. Secondly, even if there were a need, this is a poor coining. It's ambiguous, it gives your audience no idea what you're actually talking about, and (intentionally) invokes all sorts of inappropriate associations and expectations.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday July 27 2018, @04:41PM (4 children)
Then there is the more standard (or less nonstandard, if you like) future as in "Tomorrow I will (or shall) go to school", which is just present tense "will" + infinitive "go" and so still isn't a future tense as such. Then, you can get things like "Today I will the event to happen" becoming "Tomorrow I will will the event to happen again." Doesn't work with shall, fortunately, but then, we pretty much quit with shall (evolution at work). Also doesn't work with "can": "Today I can see the statue." "Tomorrow I will can see the statue?" Nope, "can" has an infinitive but only in the sense of putting something into a container, not indicating ability, so no go. We have to be something, in this case be able, in the sense that we be able to see the statue, so that in the future we will be able to see the statue. Clunky when you think about it, and not futuristic, but it works for pretty much everyone even if it lacks Latin's dedicated future tense.
But if Latin was linguistically and culturally all that great, it probably would still be a going concern, instead of evolving so much in so many directions that it's now not even Latin anymore but Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday July 27 2018, @05:24PM (3 children)
Yes indeed, there's more than one way to analyze that but in no sense is it an actual future tense to the verb. You can call it an auxiliary verb or a helper verb or what have you, but the actual verb in 'I shall %x' is obviously shall, no matter what verbal phrase you use for %x. It's in simple present form, and it's a verb that historically meant 'to owe %x, to be obliged or committed to %x.' So it's a phrasing that originally meant 'I'm (now) committed to going to school tomorrow.'
"Doesn't work with shall"
Because 'shall' doesn't have a convenient homophone.
"Will" however can be verbal (from willan, to be willing) or nominal (from willa, will itself, or more broadly mental capacity, determination) and you use both, alternating, to make that work. There is a nominal form of shall, shild, but it's neither spelled nor pronounced the same as shall (plus it's archaïc and most people wouldn't recognize it of course.)
"Nope, "can" has an infinitive but only in the sense of putting something into a container, not indicating ability, so no go"
"Can" is another case where you're playing with a set of homophones - and in this case they aren't even closely related. "Canne" was a container for liquid of some kind, it's not clear if it was originally a cup, mug, jug, or just any of the above. This gives us both the modern nominal form (a can) but also the derived verbal form you mention (to put something in a can or jar, as for preservation.) Sound changes and spelling reforms result in it being spelt simply 'can.'
On the other hand "can" was a form of the verb 'to know.' It's still used this way in e.g. Swedish "jag kan svenska." You can translate this 'I know Swedish' and without more context that's the best translation, but only because 'I can Swedish' is not grammatically sound in (modern) English. If you know the context, this might mean "I can speak Swedish" or "I can read and write Swedish" but it definitely implies not just abstract knowledge but some sort of concrete ability to demonstrate the knowledge, "I know how to" not just "I know about."
"But if Latin was linguistically and culturally all that great, it probably would still be a going concern, instead of evolving so much in so many directions that it's now not even Latin anymore but Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc"
Well, classical Latin spawned all of those languages, plus medieval church Latin, and through that most of our modern international scientific vocabulary, so at the very least it's one of the most influential languages that ever existed.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday July 27 2018, @05:58PM (2 children)
No, "i will it to happen" is itself verbal, and "I will will it again tomorrow" is more of the same. No nomnative form appears here. If I will something to happen, it is because I am willing, not because I am self-aware. If I will will it again tomorrow, then it will be because I will be willing, not because I will continue to be self-aware.
Only because it would be wrong to say that "can" doesn't have an infinitive. It does; it just belongs to a different meaning of the word. The knowledge-noun meaning survives in English (no need to visit Sweden) in the word "ken" which means scope or range of knowledge or understanding; as a verb that just doesn't have an infinitive in practice. French has pouvoir faire quelque chose, Spanish has poder hacer algo, but English must do without "to can do something". Wierd but workable.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday July 27 2018, @07:37PM (1 child)
Correct.
However, what I *thought* happened there was that you had one verbal form descended from a verbal form, and one verbal form created by verbing the nominal form, much like canne and can are both verbs. On re-examining, I'm not sure that's actually true, but I'm still not sure it's not true.
Regardless of the correct etymology for will in the sense of 'will it to happen' you're still using the same sequence of letters with two quite different meanings; will (do in the future) and will (to power etc.)
As to can being a verb with no infinitive, that really kind of depends on the meaning of infinitive. 'To can' would be what we normally call an infinitive form in English, and I think we agree that unambiguously belongs to the 'canne' family not the 'can' family.
But why do we call that the infinitive form? Well, in imitation of Latin, of course. That's roughly the sense of the corresponding Latin imperative. But the Latin grammarians didn't call it the infinitive to denote the sense of the form, but only to denote that it was seen as the most 'basic' form of the verb, in relation to the others. And 'to can' isn't the simplest form in English, in fact it's not a basic form at all, but a verbal phrase!
Swedish borrowed the same word from Latin but followed the denotation instead of the form, so in Swedish grammars 'kan' is the 'infinitiv' form here. If we adopt that meaning of infinitive, then what we call an infinitive traditionally can be seen as a regular verbal phrase used to denote an activity in abstract, and examined in that light it all makes sense. It's awkward to have 'to can' be ambiguous as to 'putting in a can' or 'knowing how to' and it's obviously better to resolve it by having 'to can' mean 'to put in a can' rather than the opposite, because there aren't many other phrases in general usage that could be substituted in the case of canning, but there ARE many phrases in current using that can denote 'to know (how to.)
"survives in English (no need to visit Sweden) in the word "ken""
Correct, but like shild it's a word I've been informed authoritatively I may not expect the modern reader to know.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1) by Arik on Friday July 27 2018, @07:40PM
canne and can were not both verbs, but both have produce verbs in modern English.
also s/imperative/infinitive
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @02:16AM (1 child)
That's because no one is willing to buy Mics anymore.
Rather, they all purchase Podcast Microphones.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @03:37AM
https://www.fullcompass.com/prod/066939-shure-ksm137-sl-cardioid-condenser-probe-instrument-mic [fullcompass.com]
(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Friday July 27 2018, @02:48PM (1 child)
Okay. Don't let me catch you referring to a photocopy made by a machine produced by another company as a "xerox" or referring to facial tissue not made by a division of Kimberly-Clark as "kleenex".
Now, do you have any suggestions for my downloading of prerecorded audio program files in the MPEG-2 Audio Layer III format that meet the other desires as laid out in the question?
Please note my username before responding. You may have been trolled.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday July 27 2018, @04:57PM
Well, except that xerography [merriam-webster.com] is a process that anyone can follow... According to that link, "Xerox's roots lie in Chester Carlson's invention of xerography, a process that made photocopying... easier, faster and cheaper than previous methods."
The iPod's roots don't lie in Joe Blow's invention of podcastography. It's just a brand name for a popular audio player that had very good marketing for a time and rose to market prominence.
In that format only? Not just audio files, but audio files in that particular Motion Picture Experts Group format only? But what about Apple proprietary Lossless Audio Codec and Free Lossless Audio Codec and Audio Waveforms and Ogg Vorbis, for example?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:37PM (2 children)
I'm guessing the question is about ripping from an Internet "radio station." I use:
wget -U "[iTunes user-agent]" -O [path][station name]-$(date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S").[format ind
icator such as mp3] "[URL]"
The output files are named according to when the "recording" begins.
Another command that comes in handy is streamripper. It splits the "recordings" using metadata (sometimes) included in the stream, so that you get files named with the titles of each show or track.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @02:09AM
Even as we speak I'm listing to a May 2015 Radio Paradise [radioparadise.com] rip that I made with VLC.
RP's playlist changes only very slowly and very subtly. But to listen to a rip from several years ago fills me with happy memories.
My RP rips also work when I can't get online.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Friday July 27 2018, @02:43PM
The question is about podcasts episodes that are delivered as downloadable MP3 files - although I didn't include it in the question, the specific one that I have noticed being a problem is Starship Sofa's feed [acast.com]. I have no idea how you got from the question I had, and the accompanying information I included along with it, to 'guessing the question is about ripping from an Internet "radio station."'
However: What you've suggested is a neat trick for recording internet radio stations. But I'm wondering if there's a way to tell it how long to continue "recording" for? Or does it just go until the first time it sees an EOF marker?
Please note my username before responding. You may have been trolled.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @12:17AM
Erika [github.com] is a pretty GTK+ podcast manager for GNU/Linux. I haven't tried running it as a cron job.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @02:07AM (2 children)
I Am Absolutely Serious.
Portland's NedSpace co-working facility where I now lease a desk is equipped with a really high-end podcasting studio.
While I am quite certain that the quality of its recordings are indistinguishable from those I can get from my iPhone 7 by using the $19.00 Pro Microphone App, I would find it quite cool to frob all those knobs.
Most likely I'd have a once per week 'cast on the general topic of mental illness.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @03:22PM (1 child)
You are absolutely serious about maybe having a podcast?
Wow.
I mean don't let me dampen your enthusiasm but your phrasing of things on this site is incredibly narcissistic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @04:22PM
Look, the guy has mental illness. It's on the topic of mental illness. So, mental illness. And you criticize his phrasing of things? Mental illness.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @03:50PM
Clementine music player can download a large variety of podcasts in the background. Just click Internet=>Podcasts, pulldown Update, then right-click the podcasts you want. Or play without download, just drag-n-drop to the playlist. Sorry, I don't see cmdline options for use with cron or at. Also, streamripper is good for recording, and can re-stream on your local net for listening while recording. Maybe that's what you are looking for. Lots of other tools too. https://www.clementine-player.org/ [clementine-player.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @05:05PM (1 child)
# for openbsd, should only need small modifications for other nixes
# tested with only one rss feed, should work though?
podcastdir=/your/podcast/directory
podcastlist=/your/podcast/list
while read rssfeed
do
# fetch the rss feed and get the mp3 url using egrep
# "curl -s" or "wget -q -O-" will work just as well
for podcast in $(ftp -M -V -o - "${rssfeed}" | grep -E -o 'http[^ ]*.mp3');
do
# check if you've already got the podcast
localpodfile=${podcastdir}/$(basename "${podcast}")
if [ ! -f ${localpodfile} ];
then
# download and set genre to podcast
ftp -M -V -o "${localpodfile}" ${podcast}
id3tag --genre=podcast ${localpodfile}
fi
done
done
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @05:07PM