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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: 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?
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