http://times.usefulinc.com/ 2005-06-17T01:54:15Z Edd Dumbill edd-web@usefulinc.com http://times.usefulinc.com/public/read/796 2005-06-17T01:54:15Z 2005-06-17T01:54:15Z

Announcing Monopod, a simple podcast client for Linux.

<div> <p>Since falling in love with the little stick of goodness that is the <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/">iPod Shuffle</a>, I decided to get into this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting">podcast thing</a>. You know, where MP3s are attached to RSS feeds and downloaded to your computer.</p> <p>Unfortunately, none of the obvious Linux podcast software really fitted my needs. Either too lo-fi (<a href="http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/">bashpodder</a>) or just completely scary (<a href="http://ipodder.sf.net/">iPodder</a>). So I started to write my own.</p> <p>Monopod is a simple Podcast client.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Get it here: <a href="http://downloads.usefulinc.com/monopod/monopod-0.2.tar.gz">monopod-0.2.tar.gz</a>. (<b>Updated</b>: 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.</p> <p><strong>Screenshots</strong></p> <p>Simple interface to subscribe and search channels</p> <p><img src="http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2005/06/monopod-downloading.png" width="524" height="439" alt="Monopod downloading" /></p> <p>Incremental live search, like Muine.</p> <p><img src="http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2005/06/monopod-search.png" width="524" height="439" alt="Monopod searching" /></p> <p><strong>Usual disclaimer</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>Given how much spare time I have, it would be amazing if I implemented much at all!</p> <p>I'll note any future releases here on my blog.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://times.usefulinc.com/2005/06/17-monopod#disqus_thread">Join the conversation about this post</a></p>