Since falling in love with the little stick of goodness that is the iPod Shuffle, I decided to get into this podcast thing. You know, where MP3s are attached to RSS feeds and downloaded to your computer.

Unfortunately, none of the obvious Linux podcast software really fitted my needs. Either too lo-fi (bashpodder) or just completely scary (iPodder). So I started to write my own.

Monopod is a simple Podcast client.

It's for people who want to select a few channels, come back later, and find the the Podcast MP3s turn up on the hard disk. People like me.

The user interface will get better in the future, but for now it's based on an icon in the system notification area. Right-click it, select "Subscriptions", and off you go.

Downloaded files will turn up in the "Monopod" directory in your home directory. There's a directory per channel, and an M3U file in there with a playlist for each channel.

Get it here: monopod-0.2.tar.gz. (Updated: if you got version 0.1, download 0.2 which fixes a couple of embarrassing bugs.) The requirements are Mono 1.1.6 or better and Gtk# 1.9.5 or better.

Screenshots

Simple interface to subscribe and search channels

Incremental live search, like Muine.

Usual disclaimer

Please see the TODO file for the development plan for Monopod and before sending me mail asking for a new feature. An important goal for me is simplicity, so I won't be implementing anything that makes things confusing.

Given how much spare time I have, it would be amazing if I implemented much at all!

I'll note any future releases here on my blog.