Podcasts on Linux

snowman156 · Post by **snowman156** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 3:21 am

I've come to this page via the Linux Link Tech show podcast so I hope this is an appropriate place to post my question:

Has anybody gotten a podcast aggregator to work on linux? I've been trying desperately to get Ipodder for Linux to work but to no avail. I'm running Slack 10 and have even tried on FC3 and Mandrake but can't seem to get it working. I've looked at bashpodder but I'm weak on the scripting apps. Any help would be appreciated. Here's links to my posts on LQ:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... did=264658

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... did=261495

Thanks in advance.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:06 pm

Good old Linc developed bashpodder: http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/

runs on linux and os X (with some of the developer xcode).

snowman156 · Post by **snowman156** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:07 pm

Ok, got the bashpodder. I've got this friend that's really stupid. How do I explain to him how to install/run/use bashpodder? I can't seem to find any readme's or how-to's out there. Thanks in advance.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:00 pm

It would be nice if Linc wrote some coherent documentation. He's friggin lazy in that way. Needs a smack in the head.

Download bashpodder.sh and the conf file in the same directory. Edit the conf file to add the feeds or delete feeds that are there.

chmd +x bashpodder.sh

Simply run ./bashpodder.sh from there.

Linc from TLLTS · Post by **Linc from TLLTS** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:42 pm

Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if Linc wrote some coherent documentation. He's friggin lazy in that way. Needs a smack in the head.

Download bashpodder.sh and the conf file in the same directory. Edit the conf file to add the feeds or delete feeds that are there.

chmd +x bashpodder.sh

Simply run ./bashpodder.sh from there.

Yep - what he said...

You're right I do need to make some docs.. Just like above, grab the bashpodder.shell and bp.conf files. Put them into the same directory. chmod +x bashpodder.shell and then ./bashpodder.shell
It'll run silently and download podcasts into a subdirectory from there named by date. Just go into that directory and play the podcasts from there or the podcast.m3u file (which will play them all for that day. If you want to add or remove podcasts, do so in the bp.conf file. It's just a simple list of the URL's for the podcasts rss feeds that you actually want.

snowman156 · Post by **snowman156** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:37 pm

Great, thanks for your help.