Amarok is probably the best thing going as a near drop-in replacement for itunes, including podcasts and transfer to ipods.
Here's a howto for listening to podcasts with amarok: http://www.newlinuxuser.com/howto-use-amarok-to-listen-to-podcasts/ On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:41 PM, John Mort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using iTunes on a windows PC for awhile now to get podcasts > onto my iPod, but I've been using my linux machine almost exclusively > lately, and it's become a bother to boot the windows PC in the morning > to sync up whatever's new. So I'm finally getting around to looking > for linux alternatives. Does anyone have any recommendations for what > would work well with podcasts? I don't put music on my iPod, so I > really don't care about that. I'm primarily looking for something > that will automatically check my podcasts periodically and download > whatever is new, and will sync with my iPod when I plug it in without > me having to manually push files around. Does anything like this > exist yet? > > -- > John D. Mort > http://john.mort.net > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing > Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way > May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using > Linux > Jun 4 - TBD > Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux Jun 4 - TBD Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative)
