I’m sick of itunes screwing up my podcasts. Between the duplicated events, downloads failing and not resuming, having to totally remove and re-add broken feeds, and the lack of ability to specify different retention levels for different podcasts. I’m ready for a new client.
If you fine folks have any recommendations either for linux or windows based podcast management software, I’d love to hear about it. Sync’ing with an ipod is a must, and if it can handle manageming music including ratings, album art and lyrics, well then great, otherwise I’ll continue to use itunes for that.
But I’d really like something that will work with my podcasts that I won’t have to freaking babysit. The whole point of a podcast is that it’s automatic. I shouldn’t be contemplating manually loading up podcast tracks into my ipod.
Have you tried Amarok for Linux? I’m not sure if it syncs with an iPod as I don’t have one but it seems to be okay for actually recieving the podcasts. Although I tend to just have all the podcasts sites I have set as livebookmarks in Firefox and download manually. I’m so lo-tech.
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Left by TheMole on March 2nd, 2006
I really like Juice, and it seems to fit your requirements, though I’ve admittedly not been using it for very long.
Left by John B on March 4th, 2006
It’s been on my radar. I downloaded it at one point on my windows box (since their linux client isn’t quite out yet — the newer code isn’t anyway). I haven’t totally made up my mind on which machine (laptop or desktop) I want to be my main ipod sync’ing station, so that’s part of the dillema too.
Left by Jordan on March 4th, 2006
I used to use juice when it was called iPodder (which I think Apple sued them over?) and it was a pretty good client but I felt it was a pretty heavy app to have just for recieving and syncing music.
I think my ideal app would sit quietly in the system tray 24/7 like a mail checker and then just notify me when it’s downloaded some new content which I can then transfer to mp3 player or listen to via whatever audio program I prefer.
Left by TheMole on March 5th, 2006