Amarok and Podcasts

[Gregory Meyer]

I don't think amarok will delete podcasts from the player once they are
transferred, so you could set up your feeds to save 10 days worth say, and
then amarok will automatically delete them from your computer as they
expire, and then you can delete them from your player manually after you
listen.  By using an episode limit, you will stop all prior episodes from
downloading over and over.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Kevin B. O'Brien <zwilnik at zwilnik.com>
wrote:

> 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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