Podcasts

[Lorenzo Taylor]

Rhythmbox is supposed to be able to handle podcasts, but I've never used
it for that. Podracer is in the repo, and I am actually the lead
developer, but its bittorrent code is borrowed and I never could figure
out how to get it to work with all versions, so the entire project has
pretty much fallen into disrepair. For a command line program or one
that can run in the background from a cron job I would personally
recommend peapod. Unfortunately it isn't yet in the repos, but you can
find it at
http://www.peapodpy.org

It works with http and bittorrent downloads and seems to be fine with
whatever version of bittorrent is on your system. I am basically passing
the torch to the peapod developers and hope to maybe contribute to their
code in the future. Besides, Python is much better than Bash for that
sort of thing anyway. :P and it will be much easier to write a graphical
front-end to Peapod for those who like that kind of thing for podcast
reception than for Podracer, since Peapod is written in Python.

If you are looking for a strictly graphical podcast receiver, the
choices look rather confusing to me at this time. There used to be a
package called IPodder, but it was apparently removed for legal reasons,
and there is apparently some confusion as far as which package was
supposed to replace it in Ubuntu. There was a bug filed about this, but
I don't see a resolution other than dropping IPodder from the repo.
There was mention in that bug of 2 different replacements, (CastPodder
[1] which seems to be dead,and PodNova [2] which seems now to be a
podcast search site rather than software), and there is no package by
either name in Ubuntu Feisty at this time.
[1] http://www.castpodder.net
[2] http://www.podnova.com

Maybe someone else can shed a little more light on the graphical aspect,
since I have only received podcasts via a cron job or by manually typing
in a command.

HTH,
Lorenzo
-- 
I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
--Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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