Podcasts: Applications and Website directories
Posted: Sun 05 Jul 2020, 16:48
Mike Walsh's recent post about searching for podcast clients or alternatives, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 57#1062257 got me interested. I was surprised that nothing showed up in this, the Additional Software>Browsers and Internet Section. I found an old pet, puppy-podcast-grabber-1.1.pet, http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/ discussed here, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 9935#59935 which ran. But, I didn't understand how to use it and, DaveS, who worked on it, posted a decade ago that even then it was "a downloader only and not very flexible." http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 822#437822
Of course, as DaveS also said there, "Both Firefox and Seamonkey 2 can handle RSS (podcast) feeds too". So, maybe the capabilities of web-browsers with Addon/Extensions are sufficient.
That said, the first thread started by Mike Walsh referenced above for using Play.FM when you have a Chromium Clone; and my addition there on how to create a menu entry to the URL of any Podcast "accumulator".
If, however, you know of any specific desktop application this thread would be as good a place as any to provide details about it.
As far as specific Websites which accumulate, aggregate or otherwise serve as a "jumping off point" for a bunch of podcasts, as previously mentioned, there's Play.FM. There's also http://www.cloud-caster.com/
So far, I've only found one other: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/. Well, a little more searching revealed spotify and some others with "Accounts --maybe just facebook or others-- required".
No account was required for https://tunein.com/podcasts/ Most, not all, podcasts could be heard using Vivaldi. Using Palemoon, all I got was a spinning wheel. There's Free and Premium. Premium is $9.99 p/m, and provides "Live NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL Games, Commercial-free Music".
Feel free to provide links to others.
Of course, as DaveS also said there, "Both Firefox and Seamonkey 2 can handle RSS (podcast) feeds too". So, maybe the capabilities of web-browsers with Addon/Extensions are sufficient.
That said, the first thread started by Mike Walsh referenced above for using Play.FM when you have a Chromium Clone; and my addition there on how to create a menu entry to the URL of any Podcast "accumulator".
If, however, you know of any specific desktop application this thread would be as good a place as any to provide details about it.
As far as specific Websites which accumulate, aggregate or otherwise serve as a "jumping off point" for a bunch of podcasts, as previously mentioned, there's Play.FM. There's also http://www.cloud-caster.com/
So far, I've only found one other: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/. Well, a little more searching revealed spotify and some others with "Accounts --maybe just facebook or others-- required".
No account was required for https://tunein.com/podcasts/ Most, not all, podcasts could be heard using Vivaldi. Using Palemoon, all I got was a spinning wheel. There's Free and Premium. Premium is $9.99 p/m, and provides "Live NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL Games, Commercial-free Music".
Feel free to provide links to others.