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: 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.