Podcatcher

Open source podcast client for the command line
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Doga Armangil
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://podcatcher.rubyforge.org/
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X
  • File Size:
  • 23 KB

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Podcatcher Description

Open source podcast client for the command line Podcatcher is a podcast client for the command line. It provides several download strategies (new shows only, back-catalog allowed, etc), offers cache management, supports BitTorrent, and generates playlists for media player applications. Podcatcher is written in Ruby, and runs on Mac OS X, Linux, Windows and many other operating systems.Podcatcher can download any type of content enclosed in RSS or Atom files, such as MP3 or other audio content, video and images. A search function for subscribing to feeds is also included. It provides several download strategies, supports BitTorrent, offers cache management, and generates playlists for media player applications. As argument, it accepts feeds (RSS or Atom) or subscription lists (OPML or iTunes PCAST), in the form of filenames or URLs (HTTP or FTP). Alternatively, it accepts one feed or subscription list from the standard input.BitTorrent is supported both internally (through the RubyTorrent library) and externally (.torrent files are downloaded, but the user handles them using a BitTorrent application). The latter is currently the most reliable method, as RubyTorrent is still in alpha phase.Concurrency is not handled: simultaneous executions of this program should target different directories. What's New in This Release: · The generated playlists are now more informative (publication date information has been added to content titles), · Some faulty feeds and subscription lists are now handled more gracefully (invalid URLs in such documents are now simply ignored instead of causing the whole document to be skipped).


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