Free podcast software for linux

MP3::Podcast is a Perl extension for podcasting directories full of MP3 files.

SYNOPSIS

use MP3::Podcast;
my $dirbase = shift;
my $urlbase = shift;
my $dir = shift;
my $pod = MP3::Podcast->new($dirbase,$urlbase);
my $rss = $pod->podcast( $dir, "This is a test" );
print $rss->as_string;

ABSTRACT

Create podcast easily from directories, using MP3s own info.

Creates a podcast, basically a RSS feed for a directory full of MP3 files. Takes information from the MP3 files themselves; it needs MP3 files with their ID tags completed.

The bundle includes two programs in the C< examples > dir: C< gen-podcast.pl >, used this way:

bash% ./gen-podcast.pl < dirbase > < urlbase > < dir to scan > that generates a static RSS from a dir, and C< podcast.cgi >, to use from a webserver. To use it, copy podcast.cgi and podcast.conf to a cgi-serviceable dir; edit podcast.conf to your liking and copy it to the directory you want. Copy also .podcast to the directory you want served as a podcast (this is done mainly to avoid dir-creeping), and also drop edit also the path to fetch the MP3::Podcast lib, and call it with C< http://my.host.com/cgi-bin/podcast.cgi/< dirname >.rss

The name of the directory to scan will be taken from the URI.

Podcast::Publisher is a Perl module for creating and managing podcasts.

SYNOPSIS

use Podcast::Publisher;

my $podcast = Podcast::Publisher->new;
$podcast->set_logger( sub { my $msg = shift; print $msg; } );
$podcast->set_error_logger( sub { my $msg = shift; print STDERR $msg; } );
my $xml = "./podcast.xml";
$podcast->set_file( $xml );
$podcast->set_remote_root( "http://localhost.localdomain/podcast/publishing/" );
$podcast->set_db_connection( { driver => "mysql",
username => foo,
password => bar,
host => localhost,
database => podcast } );

# If we change podcast information, synchronize this information in the MP3 file itself
$podcast->set_synchronize( 1 );

$podcast->set_metadata( { title => "Chris Podcast",
description => "All About Chris",
"docs" => "http://localhost",
"editor" => "podcastmanager@localhost",
"webmaster" => "podcastmanager@localhost",
} );

# This adds an item to the database, and synchronizes the
# MP3 Tag information in the file with the database
$podcast->add_new_episode( { title => Some title,
author => Chris of course
category => Jazz
description => First in a series of many
mp3 => /home/foobar/mp3s/episode1.mp3 } );

$podcast->set_upload_settings( { host => localhost.localdomain,
username => someuser,
password => somepass,
path => podcast/publishing/,
remote_root => http://localhost.localdomain/podcast/publishing/ } );
$podcast->upload();

MP3::PodcastFetch is a Perl module to fetch and manage a podcast subscription.

SYNOPSIS

use MP3::PodcastFetch;
my $feed = MP3::PodcastFetch->new(-base => /tmp/podcasts,
-rss => http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=500001
-rewrite_filename => 1,
-upgrade_tag => auto);
$feed->fetch_pods;
print "fetched ",$feed->fetched," new podcastsn";
for my $file ($feed->fetched_files) {
print $file,"n";
}

This package provides a convenient and simple way of mirroring the podcasts described by an RSS feed into a local directory. It was written as the backend for the fetch_pods.pl script.

To use it, create an MP3::PodcastFetch object with the required -base and -rss arguments. The podcasts listed in the RSS subscription file located at the -rss URL will be mirrored into one or more subdirectories located beneath the path at -base. One subdirectory will be created for each channel specified by the RSS. Additional new() arguments control optional features of this module.

Once the object is created, call its fetch_pods() method to download the RSS file, parse it, and mirror the subscribed podcasts locally.

Kwiki::Podcast is a Perl module for podcasting in a Kwiki way.

INSTALLATION

kwiki -install Kwiki::Podcast

This plugin offer an Kwiki action to generate podcast rss. User simply put down a mp3 URL in a page, and leave the rest to Kwiki. For example, you only have to write something like:

My Podcast Try. This is my first podcast song, please
take a look at it.

http://foobar.org/podcast/first.mp3

With proper user preference, your podcast will have proper publisher tag too.
Subscribe can address your podcast RSS URL from Kwikis toolbar.

CONFIGURATION

This plugin offer 3 configuratino keywords:

podcast_title

General title for you Podcasting

podcast_publisher

Your name

podcast_description

General description for this podcast.

Did you ever want to copy songs off your iPod, but all you could find were MP3 files with cryptic names ?
PodsBlitz application gives you access to your music. Just download the file to your iPod and double-click to start, thats it.
PodsBlitz was tested with an iPod Photo (synchronized by iTunes 4.9) on Mac OS 10.3.9 and Windows XP.
Since PodsBlitz is a Java application, you will need a Java Runtime Environment version 1.4 or higher. This should not be a problem on most recent Mac OS X releases.
PodsBlitz is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Version restrictions:
Linux - PodsBlitz starts, but copying fails immediately:
- Please check the folder "iPod_Control/Music" on your iPod. If it contains folders called "fXX" instead of "FXX", your iPod needs to be mounted differently. (More information can be found on the mount man-page under "shortname" in the vfat section.)
Enhancements:
- A problem on Windows caused by folder names ending in a space has been fixed, as was the grouping of Podcasts.
- There were minor string changes in the UI.

Podracer is a podcast downloader. It takes a file with the URLs to all your podcast rss feeds and goes and gets the mp3s and stores them in a specified location. Podracer is a Bourne Shell script with an internal BitTorrent downloader written in Python.
Main features:
- Catchup feature updates the log without downloading all podcasts
- Run as a cron job to automatically receive podcasts
- Properly fails (with no error message for the sake of cron) if already running
- Download podcast enclosures of any file format
- Support for BitTorrent downloading and seeding of podcasts
- Configurable seed time management - seed torrents for an hour or a day
- Background torrent seeding continues after program ends and stops automatically
- System-wide and user-specific configuration
- User-specific subscription file and podcast download directories
- Commentable subscription file - go ahead and mark it up
- Fully configurable placement of files and directories
- Support for dynamic creation of download directories, i.e. based on date/time
- Appears in podcasters logs as a podcast receiver
- Automatic creation of m3u playlists
- User may request that m3u not be created
- Automatic removal of empty download directories
- Your suggestions...

TivoPod project is a podcasting and transcoding agent that extracts content from the TiVo "Now Playing" list and serves it up as a video podcast for iPods, PSPs, and other portable media devices.
Enhancements:
- This release resolves some minor defects and adds a system status/monitoring page, as well as other small enhancements.

Armangils podcatcher is a podcast client for the command line. It provides several download strategies (new shows only, back-catalog allowed, etc), supports BitTorrent, offers cache management, and generates playlists for MP3 player applications.
Armangils podcatcher project is written in Ruby, and runs on Linux (tested), MacOS, Windows and many other operating systems.
Usage is fairly straightforward: podcatcher subscriptions.opml > latest.m3u downloads the latest subscribed podcasts into the current directory and generates a playlist.
OPML URLs are also allowed as parameters, so that listening to the most popular podcasts is as easy as typing something like podcatcher http://podcastalley.com/PodcastAlleyTop50.opml > latest.m3u.
For help, use podcatcher -h.
Enhancements:
- This release adds the --cachedir option for explicitly specifying the content cache directory independently from the state directory (specified using --dir), the --language option for selecting feeds by language, the --horizon option that prevents the downloading of content older than a given date, the --restrictednames option for using content file names that are acceptable for restrictive filesystems such as VFAT, and more robust handling of feeds that use the Media RSS module.
- A bug in update checking has been fixed.