Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] BBC downloads on linux - what do you use?
2008/11/9 Graham Bleach <graham@???>: >> I want to subscribe to some podcasts and wonder what people use. BBC
>> offers feeds for itunes, zencast and zune and feeds for yahoo and
>> goodle. Having no experience at all what do you suggest? All I want is
>> for the things to appear once published, and for the option to play them
>> on the PC!
>
> Rhythmbox, the default audio player in Ubuntu, can download podcasts. To add
> a BBC podcast: Music -> New podcast feed and copy and paste the contents of
> the Feed URL box from the BBC page for the podcast you are interested in.
>
Even easier than that Rhythmbox respects iTunes links so even if
you're on linux you can click the funky itsp:// links and Rhythmbox
should be able to figure it out.
Personally I use hpodder (command line tool) to download audio
podcasts and Miro to do all my video ones. I like to keep audio and
video podcasts apart because my mp3 player only does audio ones, and I
use Miro to watch video ones.
