8 Responses to “The GNU/Linux User Show #21!”

1. Pat from TLLTS Says:
   October 25th, 2005 at 3:21 am

   The basic bashpodder will download whatever files are listed on a particular feed. We only list our last 6 episodes so we don’t overwhelm people subscribing to the feeds for the first time. Unfortunately not everyone does this(i.e. Adam Curry).

   As far as a GUI frontend for bashpodder, my favorite is Leon Pennington’s BPConf:
   http://www.leonscape.co.uk/linux/bpconf/index.html

   which actually lets you not download every file on the feed. You can check & uncheck episodes before starting the downloads.

2. Jon Says:
   October 25th, 2005 at 9:13 am

   Very cool - thanks for the info Pat. I wish we had more time to go through all the customizations and GUIs, but there’s only so much we can cram into 45 minutes. And there’s only so much Kelly will put up with :)

   I hope people take the time to check out all the customizations for Bashpodder before making any real decision about it.

   I’m going to grab Leon’s now…thanks for the link!

3. Jeff Says:
   October 27th, 2005 at 12:13 pm

   Wish I had listened to this show before I tried to install Bashpodder. In the end, I like iPodder better, but it’s personal taste. Recently I started using Bloxor because it takes all the work out of installing a program and it’s accessable from any computer. I can listen at work or use my home computer to download programs for my MP3 player. For someone just becoming interested in podcasts, Bloxor might be a good place to start. Only problem is that you have to pick the podcasts you want before it downloads. With iPodder and the like, you can set it up so that the programs download to your computer automatically.

   Best thing about podcasts, no commercials! Yet.

4. Jon Says:
   October 27th, 2005 at 2:56 pm

   Hey! I use Bloxor for reading, but I never considered using it for podcasts. I think I’ll give that a whirl - thanks for the tip, Jeff!

   You didn’t notice the Motorola commercial at the beginning and end? :)

5. Christopher Says:
   November 13th, 2005 at 8:22 am

   My problem with Baspodder is that it doesn’t give any kind of feedback. All the issues that you highlighted in this episode boil down to that. You run it and then a cursor blinks at you for 45 minutes and then you’ve downloaded 700 MBs. Any program should show something on the screen if it takes longer than 2 seconds. If a file is taking long or you don’t want to download it you can’t cancel it because you can’t see what’s going on much less interact with it once it’s started. I was using BPConf for awhile and that actually is satisfactory, although it’s KDE and I use Ubuntu and initially it wouldn’t compile but Leon helped me with that so that actually wasn’t an issue. But in the end I still couldn’t interact with downloads or see how far they reached. That’s the main reason i stopped using Bashpodder in favour of CastPodder which is what they call iPodder for linux now. It takes hella long to load but say what, my machine sucks anyways. I didn’t look at the user contributed upgrades though because i’m too lazy. You click on the link and it’s a list of the peoples’ names who’ve contributed not an actual html page, although I’m sure that everything I’m complaining about has already been solved one way or another, such as bashpodder for ipod ( although I just checked the url and i get an sql error so whatever)

6. Jon Says:
   November 13th, 2005 at 11:29 am

   Hi Christopher,

   You’re totally right - the GUI is king. Users have to know that *something* is occuring. It’s kind of like hold music on the phone. We need something to distract us during periods of non-activity.

   CastPodder, eh? Never heard of it, but I’m going to check it out.

   Thanks!

7. Scott Grayban Says:
   November 28th, 2005 at 10:14 pm

   Get CastPodder http://www.castpodder.net

8. Jon Says:
   November 29th, 2005 at 12:25 am

   Castpodder is just the rebranded iPodder, no?

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