Comments on: Download, slice and dice podcasts on Linux

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:07:18 +0000

Hi there Matt and other readers. Just wanted to thank you for such a clear, concise, instructional post, that does EXACTLY what I needed! Up until now I have been manually downloading my podcasts using Firefox Live Feeds cut and pasted into a terminal ssh session, running aria2c all during my ISP “peak” time. No more! Now first thing in the morning, I can open my ~/Downloads/Podcasts directory I my already running session of mocp and there they all there from the previous night! And all downloaded in my ISPs offpeak hours! I know there is nothing revolutionary in these instructions, but it just worked for me! So thank you very much and keep up the terrific work!
Bill

By: willem

willem — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:43:46 +0000

# Run podracer to download any new podcasts
/usr/bin/podracer

is your -c option missing here?
keep up the good work, rgds, W

By: Evans

Evans — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:46:57 +0000

Thanks for the post. One of Linux’s strong point is its fantastic cron. U can use cron to do a lot of things in this case u’re looking for and downloading new podcasts.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:03:39 +0000

I think stowaway cat takes the cake! I could work on tech issues all day with companionship like that. Mine does the same, likes to type out gibberish as she walks on the keyboard… perhaps IM buddies I don’t know about.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:30:47 +0000

Have a look at SongBird – it’s cross-platform and based on the Mozilla engine.

Watch their little video, as it’s actually a really good introduction as to what it can do.

By: Harith

Harith — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:19:52 +0000

Matt,

Ok. So she stayed home away from the DCs

Emmy girl: You look great!

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:01:23 +0000

“Rumor has it that Emmy has left the house last Friday to the plex and started tinkering at the data centers.”

Nope nope. For one thing, she’s a stay-at-home cat, Harith. Emmy also has the ability to shut off a computer merely by walking across a keyboard, so we have to keep her far away from Google data centers.

Added: Harith, you can see where Emmy might want to hide in a backpack to get to a data center though. I have to be careful that I don’t pick up a stowaway hiding in my backpack.

By: SeanIM

SeanIM — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:48:14 +0000

Awesome tutorial. I’ve left my ubuntu box growing dust until just the other week when I upgraded to 7.10 from my old Dapper version. I hope to get my audio working in screencast mode so I can contribute a few tutorials focused at the entry level user/webmaster…eg adding gFTP, skype, some basic GIMP tutorials. Thanks again for this tutorial, it was very clear. I’ll give it a whirl tomorrow. :thumbsup

- Sean

By: Brian Mark

Brian Mark — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:31:29 +0000

Forget The Daily Search Cast… you need SEO 101.

Your instructions make it seem quick and painless. Nice. Just need some way to automatically delete those you’ve listened to like iTunes does and I’ll consider switching.

By: Harith

Harith — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:04:30 +0000

Matt,

Rumor has it that Emmy has left the house last Friday to the plex and started tinkering at the data centers. When do you expect her back home?