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 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]