Amarok and Podcasts

[Kevin B. O'Brien]

Yes, once they are on my MP3 player, I delete them from Amarok. And I 
don't want to limit how many files are saved since I tend to load up the 
player once every week or two, and for some podcasts that can mean they 
back up on me.

I think I am finding a theme, since my old player died and I am trying a 
new one. The theme is that by building in all kinds of "helpful" 
features, it is getting harder (if not impossible) to do simple things. 
I think getting a podcatcher to work properly will end up being easier 
than getting an MP3 player to work properly. I have a query in the Sansa 
right now to find out how I can control the order that files are played 
in. Apparently, it ignores alphabetical order, which is a bit awkward.

Thank you,

Gregory Meyer wrote:
> I don't know that much about podcasts, but I didn't think amarok 
> deletes a podcast after transferrring it to the device, so I am not 
> sure why it would download again, unless you are manually deleting 
> them.  Also, as to downloading all past episodes, have you limited the 
> number of episodes amarok saves in the podcast configuration dialogue?
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Kevin B. O'Brien <zwilnik at zwilnik.com 
> <mailto:zwilnik at zwilnik.com>> wrote:
>
>     I seem to have gotten myself into a bit of a twist here. I used to use
>     IcePodder, which I quite liked, but it has a dependency on python-xmms
>     which seems beyond my abilities to fix after upgrading to Kubuntu
>     Hardy.
>     So I looked for alternatives, and saw that Amarok would also
>     function as
>     a podcatcher. I got my feeds set up, and everything seemed fine.
>     But now
>     I find that after I transfer files to my MP3 player, Everything gets
>     downloaded again. In fact, it seems that Amarok is downloading every
>     single episode available, even going back multiple months if that many
>     are available. What I'd like is to download current files just
>     once, put
>     them on my MP3 player, and listen to them once. Then delete them
>     and put
>     on some more. Is there a way to do that with Amarok, or should I look
>     for some other program to manage my podcasts?
>
>     Thank You,
>
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