Although it'd be ideal to have playlist support, I don't think I need it. I find myself preferring to select which podcast episode to listen manually. I keep telling myself that once I'm caught up on all of the ones I listen to then I'll set up a few smart playlists to make the whole things hands off, but every time I catch up on what I have I end up downloading all the episodes to a new one. So it's likely I'll never need that feature.
What I'm really hoping to achieve is something that will have my podcasts waiting for me, or will get them when the program is launched, and then will change the content of my iPod to match what podcasts it has, adding whats new, removing what's been deleted. It'd be nice if it also removed things that have been completely listened to, but I could live without that. On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Michael Chase-Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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) > -- 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)
