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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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday July 27 2018, @02:07AM (2 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday July 27 2018, @02:07AM (#713513) Homepage Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @03:22PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @03:22PM (#713706)

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @04:22PM (#713728)

      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.