My phone is broken and I neeeed to listen to my podcasts while this is resolving. I thought it would be simple enough but I have been banging my head for days now.
There are lots of rss readers and podcatchers.
Ideally the downloading and listening would be integrated. Failing that, I can put up with 2 separate steps.
I can do the downloading although it’s kind of clunky. Best for this are RSSGuard and Gpodder. But once you get the files, things totally break down.
minimally require:
- track listening status
- properly access metadata, not just going by filenames.
- most crucially: name of podcast, episode title, published date, download date
- maybe the downloader has some role to play in writing file/metadata correctly but the ones I have tried don’t seem to do it
- don’t need to make an account/server to do the above
I tried everything in arch/aur repos. A few of them had totally broken UIs not sure what the deal is. I am open to TUI options but none seemed viable.
manjaro/xfce
I think Pocket Casts has a web app
It does and I use it all the time.
Don’t know much about this but have you tried Kasts?
Yes this was the winner!
Happy to hear you liked it!
Maybe more setup than you want to do for a temporary solution, but I use MPD and the Cantata front end, which supports podcasts well
I think you have correctly described state of open source podcast aggregators.
While it seams like non important matter, with control YT has on content, podcast are becoming incrisingly important for me.
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- vocal: crash on opml import
- kasts: seems to work for downloading and playing. thanks!
- cpod: not working in aur: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpod
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I have settled into kasts. Thanks for the rec. :) It is simple but does the job. If my phone issues persist I will try the flatpack of cpod.
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