Best Podcast software for Ubuntu?

[Aleksandersen]

Hi,

What is the best Podcast software for Ubuntu Dapper Drake?

On Edgy it of course is Banshee 0.11.1, but as that version with Podcast support is not available for Dapper Drake I need an alternate.

iPodder sucks. It is just a heavy feed aggregator with no built in playback capabilities nor a particularly good user interface.

So what would you recommend and what Podcast receiver do you use?

[meng]

On Dapper I used Rhythmbox, but I found the whole program too heavy for my liking. So I preferred ipodder (which I understand you don't like) which would automatically play episodes in xmms. I'm sure this is not an answer you're much interested in, nevertheless from my perspective it is the answer to your question.

[Aleksandersen]

Rhythmbox is no real alternate. It is... Just... Like a space ship. What I need is an all in one receiver and player. Like a regular bike.

[Marsolin]

Banshee (http://linuxappfinder.com/package/banshee) is available for dapper in the universe section.

[Aleksandersen]

But the 0.10.10 release (which is available for Dapper) does not have Podcast support. Edgy's 0.11.1 releae do. But I do not want to use Edgy (http://bonaveo.net/2006/10/edgy-to-dapper/) so I cannot use the Podcast ready version of Banshee.

[mostwanted]

But the 0.10.10 release (which is available for Dapper) does not have Podcast support. Edgy's 0.11.1 releae do. But I do not want to use Edgy (http://bonaveo.net/2006/10/edgy-to-dapper/) so I cannot use the Podcast ready version of Banshee.

I use Banshee on Edgy. Listen has podcast support and is available for Dapper through a download.

[Aleksandersen]

Edgy gave me a lot of problems (http://bonaveo.net/2006/10/?s=Edgy). If it had noe been for that I would have used Banshee for Podcasts too.

iPodder just gets worse and worse in my eyes... I just discovered that when you refresh, and it by all means appears to be refreshing feeds... Well, it is actually loading them from it's cache. >.< So I do not get new episodes outside the scheduled updates. ](*,)

Anyhow: No alternates to Rhythmbox, Banshee and iPodder?

[kyoushu]

I use songbird for my podcasts, and it deals with videos pretty well.
http://songbirdnest.com

[drobvice]

I have been struggling with this same issue. I just upgraded to edgy and thought I would give iPod management another go. For now, I have settled on banshee as it is the only one that will download and load onto the player (plus I really like the software)...but not for video. Ideally, I want to keep 1 or 2 episodes of each podcast, both audio and video, and automatically delete the rest and sync them to my player. I would like to prevent having to remove old podcasts and having to keep any eye on it. Right now, I can't even manage to get gtkpod to load anything that can be played back, much less do it automatically. Amarok, for me, has issues with scanning the database I really don't want to try to fix. Anyone doing this already? Actually, if banshee would just move video over, it would be 95 percent there. It will download it.

[Aleksandersen]

Is it possible to get Banshee 0.11.x on Dapper Drake, some how?

- or someone got another alternate?

I have been using iPodder since I started this thread, but it really isn't any good.

[Marsolin]

The dependancies are set to restrict it, but you could try forcing the install. Chances are the dependencies were set to what was tested in the Edgy release and not because it couldn't work with Dapper versions.

sudo apt-get --force-yes install banshee

[sailingboarder]

will banshee work with podcasts made only for itunes?

[Aleksandersen]

It will work if you have MPEG-4 codecks.

[sailingboarder]

i found a podcast, but the link is to the itunes music store (http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.a pple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore. woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D144681508%25 26s%253D143441)
how can i, in either banshee or amarok, load this podcast?
the website for the podcast is: http://www.vicfirth.com/podcasts/marching.html

[LKRaider]

I'm using CastPodder, which is the follower of the iPodder software.

Seems the website is down atm, but you can download it from: www.castpodder.net

There are deb packages there to install.

Even tho it is the version getting updates now since iPodder was dropped (trademark problems, I think), the development still seems pretty slow :(

[Frak]

Democracy Player all the way, it is the best for me, it has so many great channels built in, I think that's kinda cool, just me.

[Anonii]

I'm using CastPodder, which is the follower of the iPodder software.

Seems the website is down atm, but you can download it from: www.castpodder.net

There are deb packages there to install.

Even tho it is the version getting updates now since iPodder was dropped (trademark problems, I think), the development still seems pretty slow



Try that site again :] Seems like poor CastPodder got raped by Apple. Quote from a redirect:

CastPodder has been put to bed, RIP.

After 3 years of coding and its predecessor iPodder being sued by Apple, ripped by PodNova and now the code being miss-handled by distribution packages I have discontinued its development. The majority bitching that I turned it into a commercial product and the rest just plain bitching.

Well I have had enough. Support is now over, coding is stopped and all dns has been removed for the domain name.

Thanks to all that supported and donated to the project.

CastPodder died on Nov. 8, 2006 - RIP


This link was in the page you posted. (http://blog.borgnet.us/2006/11/09/say-good-good-night-gracy/)

[drobvice]

Wow. Kind of a shock. I had recently searched their forums regarding the cleanup function (or lack of) and knew things were sort of "heating up" but not that bad. I was just thinking of reinstalling it, too.

[Keshyden]

I got 0.11 working on Dapper a little while back using this tutorial:

http://linuxrevolution.blogspot.com/2006/09/howto-banshee-011-ubuntu.html

Hope it helps.

[Aleksandersen]

When following those instructions I just got errors saying I could not install it.

[oswaldkelso]

If you have a wordpress website you can use podpress (http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/).



You can upload video and audio, it gets picked up by all the usual podcatchers. you can play audio and video in the webpage and manage your content from anyware with internet access.

If you install Broadcast Machine (http://www.getdemocracy.com/broadcast/)

you get good intogration with democracy player .

[Aleksandersen]

I asked for software for Podcast consumers, not publishers.

[drewsimon]

Democracy Player all the way, it is the best for me, it has so many great channels built in, I think that's kinda cool, just me.

Democracy Player all the way. :KS

[fxgogo]

Songbird is looking very nice. I think I will give it a go, plus I loe the fact that it is multi platform. If they play their cards right it could be an itunes replacement for me.

[shane2peru]

Hey, the castpodder .deb is posted to www.castpodder.net now. Better get it while you can! I don't know if it was there before, but apparently it is posted now.

Shane

[aidanr]

another vote for democracy:KS

[gummibaerchen]

Democracy sucks.

(/me hates nearly all those Moz-Apps, but democrazy is really nothing compared with iTunes 6 Podcast-Support (or 7, if it's less buggy now))

Banshee can't even show listened and unlistenend shows...

Podcast on Linux is really poor!

[Aleksandersen]

(..) Podcast on Linux is really poor!
Indeed. Though Banshee have great potential!

Video Podcasts should not even be considered as possible to use on Linux. Really! It sucks.

[tom_mc]

Try PenguinTV ... It works great with audio & video! Excellent management of podcasts as well.

tom_mc

[gummibaerchen]

I tried everything :)

And Penguin is more a RSS Read which also loads Media.

Really not as smart as it should/could be.

I want just a nice list of all available podcasts, downloading-manager (very tiny) and an indicator if it was played or not.

Can't ne that hard.

gPodder offers most of it, but does not include an own player.
A VNC Wrapper or something would be handy.

[Darrious]

Yea, I personally like gpodder.

[gummibaerchen]

It's really useful.

As it doesn't care about the format, cause it doesn't have to play it.

But a listened / unlistened thing, would be perfect!

(and an importer, for all my backupped iTunes Episodes)

[iam_foo]

songbird

[gummibaerchen]

songbird

has it now real podcast support?

I don't mean webplaylists.

[Iandefor]

Why don't you just compile the version of Banshee you want from source?

[drobvice]

I'm gonna give Democracy Player a go! I have been using Penguin TV and it does fairly well but I just installed Demcocracy and it seems much more stable than the last time I tried it and lets me specify which folder to save in. Doesn't break them down into separate folders for each podcast (or channel or whatever) but it has a fairly decent player built in. I watch/listen to most of them on the iPod anyway.

[TheFlamingBush]

is there anyway to vidcast, podcast, and bit-torrent without having to use multiple programs. At the moment i guess you can use broadcast and democracy, which is great, and JUICE is pretty cool. But ideally ide like to record a session, edit the video then broadcast the results as effortlessly as possible.

So far ive got ardour for the sound editing, and videoria pod converter with lame to convert it to MP4. Then im using broadcast with democracy to spread the work from my website. Its a bit complex, has anyone else got an easier sollution for a good to excellent quality, woe to go, vid-cast proceedure...otherwise i'll keep hammering it out, and post a wiki when im finished.

any ideas for a good free video editing tool, i need to use multiple clip editing from different video sources. So the editing prog will have to be able to handle good quality digital vid, and come out with a great result....oh and FREE please! :)..... in a way this might be more useful in the multimedia wiki, but it is kind of vidcast, podcast related and this seemed like a good thread.

[gummibaerchen]

I like gPodder now.

[motrennoc]

I looked around at democracy, songbird, banshee. I was really bummed when I saw that castpodder had stopped. Finally I went to synaptic and typed in "podcast" in search. I downloaded ipodder and it seems to be working well. I just want to download the feeds and I'll put them on the ipod. Songbird which uses Odeo was years behind in LUG radio episodes.
Looks like ipodder is working for me.

[motrennoc]

PS I had all sorts of problems getting gpodder configured (on Edgy) finally gave up and removed it all

[gummibaerchen]

I looked around at democracy, songbird, banshee. I was really bummed when I saw that castpodder had stopped. Finally I went to synaptic and typed in "podcast" in search. I downloaded ipodder and it seems to be working well. I just want to download the feeds and I'll put them on the ipod. Songbird which uses Odeo was years behind in LUG radio episodes.
Looks like ipodder is working for me.

There is no iPodder alias Juicereceiver for Linux...

[hackmeister]

I was really bummed when I saw that castpodder had stopped.

Icepodder development has started and uses Castpodder as it's base:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/icepodder/

The project is looking for contributers.

[Larry Roll]

OK, let's back this thing WAY back.

Do you mean to tell me I can use Ubuntu to download podcasts to my iPod? I'm talking about an ACTUAL Apple iPod. The real deal. With all it's idiosyncracies. Mine is an older non-video version. So how do I use it without having iTunes?

Or -- are you talking about some sort of generic .mp3 download manager syncing with a generic .mp3 player?

I'm a total noobie here -- speak English.

[riven0]

OK, let's back this thing WAY back.

Do you mean to tell me I can use Ubuntu to download podcasts to my iPod? I'm talking about an ACTUAL Apple iPod. The real deal. With all it's idiosyncracies. Mine is an older non-video version. So how do I use it without having iTunes?

Or -- are you talking about some sort of generic .mp3 download manager syncing with a generic .mp3 player?

I'm a total noobie here -- speak English.

Certainly, why not?:) Take a look at some of these apps for Linux:

YamiPod (http://linuxappfinder.com/package/yamipod)

Banshee (http://linuxappfinder.com/package/banshee)

Amarok (http://linuxappfinder.com/package/amarok)

And my favorite --> GTKPod (http://linuxappfinder.com/package/gtkpod)

Here is an article (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9266) to get you started.

[Iandefor]

OK, let's back this thing WAY back.

Do you mean to tell me I can use Ubuntu to download podcasts to my iPod? I'm talking about an ACTUAL Apple iPod. The real deal. With all it's idiosyncracies. Mine is an older non-video version. So how do I use it without having iTunes?

Or -- are you talking about some sort of generic .mp3 download manager syncing with a generic .mp3 player?

I'm a total noobie here -- speak English. Well, most of the thread was about software to fetch and replay podcasts on your computer. But if you're interested in software to fetch and copy to a DAP, then riven0 seems to have some good ideas for that.

[toastytaco]

There is also a program called Democacy TV that is nice but it's a small mem hog..](*,)

[Aleksandersen]

There is also a program called Democacy TV that is nice but it's a small mem hog..](*,)

...and it is for Vidcasts. Not audio Podcasts.

[sefs]

Have you gotten banshee to play with podcasts on Edgy? I have it installed with the podcast plugin enabled but it gives me a playback error.

Hi,

What is the best Podcast software for Ubuntu Dapper Drake?

On Edgy it of course is Banshee 0.11.1, but as that version with Podcast support is not available for Dapper Drake I need an alternate.

iPodder sucks. It is just a heavy feed aggregator with no built in playback capabilities nor a particularly good user interface.

So what would you recommend and what Podcast receiver do you use?

[gwayne]

OK, let's back this thing WAY back.

Do you mean to tell me I can use Ubuntu to download podcasts to my iPod? I'm talking about an ACTUAL Apple iPod. The real deal. With all it's idiosyncracies. Mine is an older non-video version. So how do I use it without having iTunes?

Or -- are you talking about some sort of generic .mp3 download manager syncing with a generic .mp3 player?

I'm a total noobie here -- speak English.

I was suprised myself. I have been using Ubuntu on my laptop for quite some time, just bit the bullet and installed it on my main box as well. (Beryl is sweeet).

I left a Windows Partition soley for itunes. I was suprised to find out that Rhapsody had no problem playing songs from my 5g ipod, and getting them back on it. It puts podcasts on it just fine, only problem is they dont show up under the 'podcasts' menu on my ipod.

I have to go to 'genres/podcasts' and find it there. Other then that, managing my ipod with linux has been less of a pain in the *** then under itunes (itunes is slick and I like it, but its restrictive)

I am going to try gpodder tonight, maybe that will allow podcasts to show up in the podcasts menu on my ipod.

[drobvice]

...and it is for Vidcasts. Not audio Podcasts.

I use it for audio and video. Works fine.

[Albinodrew]

Hi, everyone

This is true, there is no easy all-in-one solution (we can hope).

Here is what I do for audio and video Netcast,

- iPodder for mass download of a new Netcast (for more than 5 episodes).

- Liferea for managing feeds and daily download (with a folder call Netcast)

- Easytag to make sure that all audio Netcast have the same genre.

- Rhythmbox for managing, listening.
created a folder called Musiques with subfolder

CD
Netcast
Free Downloads
Paid Downloads


- Syncropated for syncronising with my Samsung YP-Z5 (Works with Rhythmbox playlist)

I'll gave you that it's not the best way to do thing, but it does the trick.

Hope it will help you.

[spankminister]

iPodder and CastPodder no longer exist, the replacement based on their GPL'ed source is IcePodder (http://icepodder.fryingoverajungle.net), a project I maintain. Check it out, and let me know what you think.

[gummibaerchen]

iPodder and CastPodder no longer exist, the replacement based on their GPL'ed source is IcePodder (http://icepodder.fryingoverajungle.net), a project I maintain. Check it out, and let me know what you think.

You should upload some screenshot, and so far we just have to wait for a release :)

[LKRaider]

Great! What are your ideas for the project?

If we are allowed a say in the wishlist, I would vote for marking when a podcast has already been played or not.
Another one would be to make the app lighter and faster. ;)

[dada1958]

I have a Creative Zen V, mainly to kill my time when I'm traveling from home to my work and back, listening to podcasted radio programs is nice. I tried many apps, I liked Amarok with mtp support until I screwed that up when 'upgrading' to 1.4.5. It's a nice app but overkill for downloading podcasts in Gnome.
Yesterday I played with podracer, it does what I want: putting new podcasts on my PC when I put it on each morning so I can transfer them to my Zen V with Gnomad2.

[Frak]

Since I use Linspire on my Laptop, I fell in love with this, Lsongs. Not available for Ubuntu, yet, but because of the joint partnership announcement, they are going to share technologies. Read my iPod and all my other MP3 Players just fine.

[spankminister]

You should upload some screenshot, and so far we just have to wait for a release

I'm working on a .deb package as we speak =) I'll also put up some screenshots for people to look at. Most people should at least be familiar with Juice/iPodder/CastPodder at some point, and the look and feel is basically identical.

Great! What are your ideas for the project?

One of the first big features I'd like to add is getting torrents working. They work at the moment only if icePodder receives no timeouts from the tracker, which often happens in the real world. I'd also like an autosync with mp3 player. At the moment, I'm just having IcePodder run a bash script after each download, but it would be much better to integrate that so each user wouldn't have to roll their own solution.


f we are allowed a say in the wishlist, I would vote for marking when a podcast has already been played or not.
Another one would be to make the app lighter and faster.

As for making the app lighter and faster, I absolutely agree. The problem is that I'm not that experienced at developing in python, and I'm inheriting a big legacy code base. I'm learning about CastPodder as I go along, but there's also iPodder stuff running at its core. It's tough to really pin down why a given action is slow when it calls so many functions that I don't really understand. =) It is a priority for me, though.

As for marking played podcasts, I have thought about it, but that's a little trickier-- If I implement something like that, i want it to be able to work with the way all users like to listen to their podcasts. Which is to say, if someone syncs their new podcasts to an mp3 player, should those episodes be marked "listened"? I listen to podcasts both in the car and at the computer, so for a program to keep track of what I've listened to is a little more complicated. I would imagine a lot of other users have more peculiar listening patterns than me =) I'm always open to suggestions as to how a feature could be implemented, and even more open to people submitting their own code ^_~

[darthchaosofrspw]

I mainly use Rhythmbox and Amarok for podcasts, but I have used iTunes 4.9 (via Crossover Office 5) for podcasts as well. Rhythmbox does not worj with podcasts that start with itpc (itpc has to be changed to http in order to work), but Amarok and iTunes does work with itpc podcasts.

BTW, Ipodder, from what I know, does not work with itpc podcasts (has to be changed to http).

[Aleksandersen]

itpc is an iTunes proprietary URI.
You could use http, or the more often used pcast.

[spankminister]

Hey, I've put up screenshots (http://icepodder.fryingoverajungle.net/?page_id=10) and a package/deb (http://icepodder.fryingoverajungle.net/?page_id=4) file for IcePodder, so check it out (http://icepodder.fryingoverajungle.net) and tell me what you think =)

[ka9qlq]

Well I get my podcasts off a website that uses cgi and [I think] cookies [you need a login and password] and would LOVE to not have to use a web browser to get them. If I knew pearl or python I'd just write something to scan the webpage after logging in and cron the thing. Anything that can do that?

[ratbagradio]

It is a conundrum. I seem to have gone from hither to yon on this: Ipodder, Icepodder, Bashpodder, Democracy TV, Penguin TV -- and then I worked out how the podcasts can be orchestrated on Amarok (where I played them anyway) so I'm pretty pleased with what's on offer there.

I think the core question is how you want to handle your podcasts:

Do you want automatic download?
Do you want to download at set times?
Do you want to select which programs you want to listen to and those you want to download?
Do you want to store your podcast files in folders by date of download or by program/podcast name?
Do you want to be able to delete your files after you've played them and after you've synced them top your device?
Do you want to sync from your aggregator direct to your device player?

Well, given the configuration options and the ease of mangement (once you work it out) Amarok wins hands down for me. It doesn't offer selective download time like iPodder does nor does it offer opml -- but the other widgets are pretty darn good.

[ka9qlq]

I just want to automate getting them daily. Remember there's a password etc. Will Amarok do that?

[darthchaosofrspw]

itpc is an iTunes proprietary URI.
You could use http, or the more often used pcast.

itpc works with Amarok 1.4.

[Aleksandersen]

What is itpc?

[toastytaco]

I use Armorok Player as a good all in one program. If you would like to see more programs avalible try going to http://getdeb.net (http://getdeb.net) and look at the software packages there. Hope this helps.

[vgrisham]

I concur. Amarok does the trick. You can define how many podcasts to keep, and to where specifically on your portable music player you wish to sync your podcasts. Amarok is far and away most complete podscasting solution for Ubuntu. I wish that exaile would focus more on this feature, because I like the look of the program, and I would prefer to run a gnome application.

[PuleX]

I really like gPodder, which is and has been under steady development for months.
The latest version is just available from getdeb.net:
http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=gPodder

Do give it a try. It is now much better than 6 months ago. :-)

[ddaavviidd]

I really like gPodder, which is and has been under steady development for months.
The latest version is just available from getdeb.net:
http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=gPodder

Do give it a try. It is now much better than 6 months ago. :-)

It's nice in many ways. And it's what I use. But you have to do a lot of the work yourself. Specifically you have to delete old episodes manually. Both on your computer and on your mp3 player. Which becomes tedious when you, like me, do it every single night (and you don't have a gazillion gigabytes of storage on your mp3 player). It would be nice if you could have the option to keep the latest one or two episodes and remove the rest, and it'd take care of that for you. If gPodder could do that, I would look no further. I'm checking out PodGet now, which seems very customizable. Might do the job.

[oiler920]

I personally use Amarok, though it took me a while to figure out where the podcasts were. It's actually in the Playlists tab. ;-)

And where do you find Podcasts in Songbird? I have Songbird 0.4 Final. :confused:

[kkkkatie]

have you tried miro for podcasts?? its really easy to browse and download and you can watch it all there and then

[Aleksandersen]

Miro is not an option for 64 bit users. It will not build on this architecture.