John Mort 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? >
I've had decent luck with Banshee, http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page It doesn't do everything, but it does a passable job at getting podcasts. It doesn't support playlists on ipods, so I've had to use gtkpod http://www.gtkpod.org/about.html for that. I'm not entirely happy with my current solution, but it gets the job done, though with a bit of manual intervention to keep track of which podcasts are new and cleaning up old ones. I've never managed to get Amarok to do what I want, but it seems to be the other major contender as has already been suggested. Mike _______________________________________________ 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)
