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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: 2) by requerdanos on Friday July 27 2018, @04:57PM
Well, except that xerography [merriam-webster.com] is a process that anyone can follow... According to that link, "Xerox's roots lie in Chester Carlson's invention of xerography, a process that made photocopying... easier, faster and cheaper than previous methods."
The iPod's roots don't lie in Joe Blow's invention of podcastography. It's just a brand name for a popular audio player that had very good marketing for a time and rose to market prominence.
In that format only? Not just audio files, but audio files in that particular Motion Picture Experts Group format only? But what about Apple proprietary Lossless Audio Codec and Free Lossless Audio Codec and Audio Waveforms and Ogg Vorbis, for example?