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AskSoylent: Linux Podcast Downloaders?

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the podcast-me-obiwan-kenobi dept.

AndyTheAbsurd writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:18PM (2 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:18PM (#713438) Journal
    You'll never have a bug report ignored, and while it's possible your feature requests turn out to take too much time, at least you'll be kept informed.
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  • (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Friday July 27 2018, @12:50PM (1 child)

    by epitaxial (3165) on Friday July 27 2018, @12:50PM (#713644)

    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

      by Arik (4543) on Friday July 27 2018, @02:09PM (#713675) Journal
      What for? The information you want is online, available at your convenience, to suit your schedule, without any other students to distract you and without any grouchy professor to make the subject difficult.
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      If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?