Podcast Client Tool
Ξ October 11th, 2008 | → | ∇ Tools |
A good book makes an excellent company. The time it takes to go from home to work is usually occupied with some reading, but from time to time I prefer the more passive company of a good interview or technical discussion downloaded from any given podcast.
Until today, no Linux podcast client had all the features that made it perfect for me, but that was just because I was looking in the wrong place. I tried Amarok built-in client, gPodder and a few others but none of then was ever able to truly accomplish the task at hand.
A couple of days ago I found IcePodder (a Linux clone for Juice), a very simple to use podcast client (also available for Windows and Mac, not that I care). With a clean interface, the subscription process is very straight-forward and quick.
Unfortunately, the installation procedure on Ubuntu 8.04 is not the usual ’sudo aptitude install X’, but it still remains to be quite simple:
> sudo apt-get install subversion
> svn co https://icepodder.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/icepodder icepodder
> cd icepodder
> sudo ./install.sh
> sudo apt-get install python-wxversion
and that is it. Just run iPodder.
[Updated after some complaints from the readers on not being able to install IcePodder]