Podcasts

[Ed Smits]

I've tried out most of the various iPod software out there, have
settled on Amarok as best able to manage podcasts. They get listed in
the Playlists section, easy to add to them, manage them, transfer them
to your iPod. I had hoped to use RythmBox for this as I run Gnome and
didn't want the KDE overhead needed for Amarok, but podcast management
wasn't nearly as good and I ended up with about 1 GB of orphaned files
on my nano as a result of deleting podcasts using RythmBox. Luckily
Amarok has some good iPod tools for cleanup built in.

If anyone else has a better Gnome based app I'd like to hear about it.

ED

On 4/17/07, Scott Sweeny <ssweeny at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/17/07, Michael Satterwhite <michael at weblore.com> wrote:
> > Several websites offer podcasts of various radio programs. Most also have
> > downloadable software (for Windows, of course, and frequently Mac OS) to
> > receive them.
> >
> > Is there software available to receive these podcasts in Linux? I see a couple
> > of possibilities in Synaptic, but the setup is not obvious to me - even after
> > looking at the software.
> >
>
> Rhythmbox (might be Music Player in the menus) has the ablility to
> grab podcasts.  I'm at work right now, so if you're interested I can
> detail the steps to subscribe this evening (EDT).
>
> ~Scott