My podcast workflow

I have been listening to podcasts for many years. I started in 2005, when I bought my first MP3 player.

Various podcast downloaders (or podcatchers) have existed over this time, some of which I have tried. Now I use a script based on Bashpodder, which I have built to meet my needs. I also use a database to hold details of the feeds I subscribe to, what episodes have been downloaded, what is on a player to be listened to and what can be deleted. I have written many scripts (in Bash, Perl and Python) to manage all of this, and I will be describing the overall workflow in this episode without going into too much detail.

I was prompted to put together this show by folky’s HPR episode 1992 “How I’m handling my podcast-subscriptions and -listening”. Thanks to him for a very interesting episode.

Refer to the full notes for the details: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2211/full_shownotes.html

Links

Wikipedia article entitled “List of podcatchers”

HPR episode 1992 from folky entitled “How I’m handling my podcast-subscriptions and -listening”

HPR episode 1935 from Charles in NJ entitled “Quick Bashpodder Fix”

Wikipedia article on the Podcast

Wikipedia article on RSS

Wikipedia article on the Atom standard

Bashpodder

HPR episode 1656 entitled “My audio player collection”

The fix_tags script on GitHub

Information about xsltproc

Resources:

My version of parse_enclosure.xsl

My ID parser parse_id.xsl

List of all components of the system described in this episode