Comments on: Podcasting

By: Garth T Kidd

Garth T Kidd — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:39:40 +0000

NetNewsWire is a fantastic RSS aggregator. Can’t fault that. And you’re right; our install is huge. wxWindows is no small beastie. OTOH, our new version is way slick. Worth a shot.

Recommended podcasts (all URLs are feeds):

30 years of jjj: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/30years/podcast/triplej30years.xml

jjj’s Hack: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/podcast/podcast.xml

Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything: http://www.toeradio.org/index.xml

Radio Clash (UK mashup show): http://www.mutantpop.net/radioclash/rssfeed.php

Reel Reviews (the guy’s a real film nut!): http://mwgblog.com/wp-rss2.php

Slashdot Review: http://slashdotreview.com/wp-rss2.php

By: spuddybuddy

spuddybuddy — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:39:40 +0000

fyi,

if the playlist you are importing into doesn't exist first, the script will throw an error - so be sure to create a "Music Blogs" playlist first, or edit the script to use a playlist that already exists.

nice script btw. i was thinking of writing something to covert the mp3 links to enclosures, but this works just as well.

By: MikeJ

MikeJ — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:39:40 +0000

Lime 6 is now podcasted

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:39:40 +0000

Nice! Along the same lines, I’ve written a script that will delete podcasts after you’ve listened to them. It also allows you to use ratings to mark podcasts to be deleted or kept regardless of whether or not you’ve listened to them yet. You can find more details and download the script here:

http://www.acetylene.net/archives/2005/03/14/managing-podcasts-with-applescript/

It will work with your script if you set the playlist to “Podcasts” — I wrote it to be used with NetNewsWire 2.0 Beta, which puts podcasts in that playlist by default.

By: Roo

Roo — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:39:40 +0000

Very impressed with your script. If you’re looking for ideas for future development, one thing I’ve noticed is that it doesn’t fail gracefully if any of the mp3 links are stale (a single 404 is all it takes to end the whole party).

By: alastair

alastair — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:39:40 +0000

Thanks Roo, I'll see what can be done about that.

Personally I have more problems with Applescript timeouts caused by slow downloads...

By: Roo

Roo — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:39:40 +0000

Thanks Alastair. Yep. I'd say addressing those two issues (404s and timeouts) would make it a very usable little script indeed.

Is it true that iCal has hooks to run scripts at specified (recurring) times? I'm imgaining a fully automated system which grabs any previsouly unseen mp3s linked from your favourite blog each morning, just ready for the commute to work. That would be powerfully cool, don't you think?

By: Alek

Alek — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:39:40 +0000

yes, ipodder is clunky but theres just so little out there at the moment. anyone got a fuller list of apps that can be tried or is that it?