schnarff
December 28th, 2008, 06:24 PM
Hello All,
Apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere; I'm trying to get my wife's grandfather all set up before we head back out of state (we're just visiting for Christmas), and we fly out tonight, so I'm sort of running out of time.
I've got him the latest version of Ubuntu (8.10) installed, and most everything works great. However, last night he wanted to listen to some of the podcasts at:
http://cultivategreatness.com/2008/04/26/skip-the-tuition-100-free-podcasts-from-the-best-colleges-in-the-world
The problem is that, when he clicked on any of them (taking "Modern Theoretical Physics", near the top - http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1291062366 - as an example), it popped up a message about connecting to iTunes university, and not much else. After trying to get some appropriate packages installed, Firefox is now suggesting Rhythymbox as the application to open it with; however, when I choose it, Rhythymbox opens, but doesn't actually load the podcast.
I've also tried pasting in the URL for the specific podcast in Amarok, but it just says "Podcast returned invalid data" and fails to load. I've gone all through the source of the URL for the specific podcast, as well as the page with links to all of them, and I can't find any RSS feeds for these, which is what several places I saw suggested.
Does anyone know how to get Podcasts like these to play under Ubuntu? Or is he just out of luck until I get a Windows virtual machine set up?
Apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere; I'm trying to get my wife's grandfather all set up before we head back out of state (we're just visiting for Christmas), and we fly out tonight, so I'm sort of running out of time.
I've got him the latest version of Ubuntu (8.10) installed, and most everything works great. However, last night he wanted to listen to some of the podcasts at:
http://cultivategreatness.com/2008/04/26/skip-the-tuition-100-free-podcasts-from-the-best-colleges-in-the-world
The problem is that, when he clicked on any of them (taking "Modern Theoretical Physics", near the top - http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1291062366 - as an example), it popped up a message about connecting to iTunes university, and not much else. After trying to get some appropriate packages installed, Firefox is now suggesting Rhythymbox as the application to open it with; however, when I choose it, Rhythymbox opens, but doesn't actually load the podcast.
I've also tried pasting in the URL for the specific podcast in Amarok, but it just says "Podcast returned invalid data" and fails to load. I've gone all through the source of the URL for the specific podcast, as well as the page with links to all of them, and I can't find any RSS feeds for these, which is what several places I saw suggested.
Does anyone know how to get Podcasts like these to play under Ubuntu? Or is he just out of luck until I get a Windows virtual machine set up?