pod racer?

pod racer?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi all,
firmly working from memory, but is not that the name of a podcast 
gathering program that is accessible?
My dream would be one that I might incorporate here at shellworld, but if 
not  one that might work in my dos networking setup would be terrific too.
Thanks in advance,
Karen

PodRacer

[Hart Larry]

Hi Karen:  As I remember, PodRacer was written by Lorenzo, who may still be on 
this list.  If Ken were to install a pod catcher on Shellworld, you would still 
want to download the items every so many days.  Some alternatives to going that 
root, would be exploring odeo dot com  where you can search for 
podcasts-and-individually download them.  Some years ago before a redesign, my 
yahoo was a great place for this, but as usual, they ruined it.  Another place 
where I had good luck was
www.miroguide.com
However, since April the direct download links for the audio or video are 
displaying a jpeg instead.  I have written them, but they seem confused about 
what changed.
Some sites include direct downloads for podcasts, such as ABC-News, CNN, and 
CBS-News, but many such as Washington Post want you to use an rss reader.
Since I have no idea about pod catchers in DOS, I cannot say, but managing the 
subscriptions locally may be better.
Hope that provides some insite
Hart

Re: PodRacer

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi Larry,
Thanks, but I have only one location in mind, grin.
Karen

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Hart Larry wrote:

> Hi Karen:  As I remember, PodRacer was written by Lorenzo, who may still be 
> on this list.  If Ken were to install a pod catcher on Shellworld, you would 
> still want to download the items every so many days.  Some alternatives to 
> going that root, would be exploring odeo dot com  where you can search for 
> podcasts-and-individually download them.  Some years ago before a redesign, 
> my yahoo was a great place for this, but as usual, they ruined it.  Another 
> place where I had good luck was
> www.miroguide.com
> However, since April the direct download links for the audio or video are 
> displaying a jpeg instead.  I have written them, but they seem confused about 
> what changed.
> Some sites include direct downloads for podcasts, such as ABC-News, CNN, and 
> CBS-News, but many such as Washington Post want you to use an rss reader.
> Since I have no idea about pod catchers in DOS, I cannot say, but managing 
> the subscriptions locally may be better.
> Hope that provides some insite
> Hart
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Re: PodRacer

[Tony Baechler]

If you can send me your email address and the URL for the feed, I can 
have it emailed to you.  I use a program called rss2email.  That gives 
you the option to pick and choose what episodes you want.  Granted, it 
isn't automatic, but with Mutt and urlview, it should be fairly painless 
to download them individually.  I have many podcasts set up that way and 
have had good results since 2005.

On 10/28/2009 8:07 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Hi Larry,
> Thanks, but I have only one location in mind, grin.
> Karen

Re: PodRacer

[Jason White]

Tony Baechler  <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> wrote:
>If you can send me your email address and the URL for the feed, I can 
>have it emailed to you.  I use a program called rss2email.  That gives 
>you the option to pick and choose what episodes you want.  

Another option is hpodder, which is available in Debian. It's a command line
tool that has become my preferred method of downloading podcasts.

It's written in Haskell, and therefore requires Haskell libraries to be
installed. The Debian packaging system handles this automatically, but if
you're using another distribution that doesn't provide a packaged version of
hpodder, be prepared for more manual installation work than is required by a
typical C program.

One of the advantages of command line and most ncurses-based software under
Linux is that accessibility goes without saying: access problems are the rare
exception. 

Re: PodRacer

[Daniel Dalton]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:35:57AM +0000, Jason White wrote:
> Another option is hpodder, which is available in Debian. It's a command line
> tool that has become my preferred method of downloading podcasts.

Yes, it is fantastic, I have used it for over 12 months, and it works
exceptionally well.

If you receiv this twice, I apologise, the first one didn't seem to come
through.

Dan.

Re: PodRacer

[Alonzo]

Hello,
I'm not sure what your trying to do. It sounds like your trying to download 
podcasts from the shell. If so, use mashpodder. You can search for it in 
google and download it via svn. You can also use bash podder, newbeuter 
which is an rss reader/podcast catcher.

Alonzo


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From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@shellworld.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: PodRacer


> Hi Larry,
> Thanks, but I have only one location in mind, grin.
> Karen
>
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Hart Larry wrote:
>
>> Hi Karen:  As I remember, PodRacer was written by Lorenzo, who may still 
>> be on this list.  If Ken were to install a pod catcher on Shellworld, you 
>> would still want to download the items every so many days.  Some 
>> alternatives to going that root, would be exploring odeo dot com  where 
>> you can search for podcasts-and-individually download them.  Some years 
>> ago before a redesign, my yahoo was a great place for this, but as usual, 
>> they ruined it.  Another place where I had good luck was
>> www.miroguide.com
>> However, since April the direct download links for the audio or video are 
>> displaying a jpeg instead.  I have written them, but they seem confused 
>> about what changed.
>> Some sites include direct downloads for podcasts, such as ABC-News, CNN, 
>> and CBS-News, but many such as Washington Post want you to use an rss 
>> reader.
>> Since I have no idea about pod catchers in DOS, I cannot say, but 
>> managing the subscriptions locally may be better.
>> Hope that provides some insite
>> Hart
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Re: PodRacer

[Gaijin]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:51:51PM -0700, Hart Larry wrote:
> Some sites include direct downloads for podcasts, such as ABC-News,
> CNN, and CBS-News, but many such as Washington Post want you to use
> an rss reader.

	hpodder is a fairly easy to use CLI client for Linux.  I've also 
experimented with the rss2email package, and that can easily be added to 
a cron job.  Just make sure you're synched up with the RSS feed, or 
rss2email will get you complaints from your ISP for requesting 5000 
podcasts via email if your not running your own server. <grins>

				Michael

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podracer

[Jude DaShiell]

Probably a dead package by now.  For that reason if I can figure it out
one thing that would help the package would be to make it
bittorrent-agnostic to the extent if bittorrent cannot be found it would
search for other bittorrent clients and use them.  Archlinux has no
bittorrent package on it though slint has bittorrent and podracer
available for podcast downloading.  Podracer worked well in the past and I
found out about it from this list so figured it wouldn't be off topic to
mention it here.



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re: podracer

[Jude DaShiell]

It could be for whatever reason podracer isn't actually running more than 
once a day no matter what is in a user's crontab file.  The reason I write 
this is that on more than one occassion I've had instances where I ran 
podracer on the 4 hour times crontab ought to have run it.  Now if 
podracer had been running, you would expect the prompt to come back very 
fast since podracer would prevent itself from running more than one 
instance of itself in the same account at the same time.  Those pauses 
until the prompt reappeared lasted into the minutes.  Now It could be I 
should be using opendomain.org's primary and secondary domains rather than 
the ones verizon provided me but I have to test this out.

re: podracer

[Jude DaShiell]

So far as I can tell, it's one feed on feedburner.com that's causing both 
errors. http://feeds.feedburner.com/asiya is the feed for any who would be 
interested in further discovery.  It's possible that feed is badly 
constructed too but if so I don't know in what way.

re: podracer

[Jude DaShiell]

Hi Lorenzo,

No on February 19, 2007 we had no power failures since when I returned 
home from work the network connection was still up and my user account was 
still logged in.  A temporary hardware failure possibly this Dell is most 
of 8 years old.  Could a temporarily broken network connection on 
verizon's end have done this?  My system may have logged the dropped and 
restored connection; if so what log would store that kind of information?

Re: podracer

[Steve Holmes]

I don't know if this has anything to do with it or not, but my perl
(hand rolled) podcatcher client has been unable to download a bunch of
feed burner originated feeds lately.  I need to open up the debug logic
to see what the errors are but is there any chance that the podcasts
you're having trouble with come from feedburner? My other podcasts
suchas podshow, gcast, and lipsyn seem to be fine.  I just haven't had
the chance to dig into my program to see what is going on.  This all
started about a week or so ago.

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:17:58AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
> 
> No on February 19, 2007 we had no power failures since when I returned 
> home from work the network connection was still up and my user account was 
> still logged in.  A temporary hardware failure possibly this Dell is most 
> of 8 years old.  Could a temporarily broken network connection on 
> verizon's end have done this?  My system may have logged the dropped and 
> restored connection; if so what log would store that kind of information?
> 
> 
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re: podracer

[Jude DaShiell]

After I removed the .podracer/tempsub and podracer started running again I 
found two instances of an error message that read: podracer internal error 
(0) I bailed out of podracer once that had happened.  The lst thing in 
.podracer/podcast.log was a new podcast I had subscribed to and one of its 
enclosures had been downloaded.  Might this kind of error happen if the 
xml file downloaded from the podcast has some formatting problems?

Re: podracer

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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This is very weird.  I have no code anywhere in Podracer that would
produce the message `Podracer internal error'.

Puzzled,
Lorenzo
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re: podracer

[Jude DaShiell]

Gareth,

Yes, .podracer/tempsub does exist.  Thanks I'll try erasing that file and 
see what happens.

Re: podracer

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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I will need to check into your problem a little more.  There is a signal
trap that is supposed to catch most common signals and delete the
tempsub file.  Apparently Podracer died quite abnormally on your system
and it would be nice if I can find out how and why.  Let me know if you
have any information to provide if this happens again, although I do
know that something like a power failure or hardware failure that causes
your box to power down unexpectedly will in fact leave the lock file in
place.

HTH,
Lorenzo
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Re: podracer

[Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 5 2 6 9 7 0)]

Yep it does seem to stay there, often if I do have a sluggish bogged down
net connection I can routinely find that it has been running for 10 12
hours or more, then rm-ing the tempsub stops it, sometimes there is then a
cron email that then says tempsub not found.

Re: podracer

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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To keep podracer from running for extremely long times without
downloading complete podcasts, try playing with your minspeed and
downloadtimeout options in podracer.conf.  The minspeed option will set
a lower speed limit below which a connection will be timed out after the
number of seconds specified by downloadtimeout.  Note, however, that
these options only work for non-torrent downloads.  There is currently
no mechanism in Podracer to timeout a torrent download.

HTH,
Lorenzo
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podracer

[Jude DaShiell]

On this system hasn't downloaded any podcasts since 2007-02-19.  I usually 
update this system daily so it could be one of the updates on the 19th 
broke something in python podracer needs working.  The podracer package is 
also leaving empty date directories after itself this is the current 
debian version of podracer that's doing this.

Re: podracer

[Garrett Klein]

Jude,

Check for ~/.podracer/tempsub, and if it exists, remove it. Apparently
it's some sort of lock file that sometimes gets left around. After you
remove it things should be okay. Hth.

Garrett

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:33:32AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> On this system hasn't downloaded any podcasts since 2007-02-19.  I usually 
> update this system daily so it could be one of the updates on the 19th 
> broke something in python podracer needs working.  The podracer package is 
> also leaving empty date directories after itself this is the current 
> debian version of podracer that's doing this.
> 
> 
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podracer

[Jude DaShiell]

python-cjkcodecs and python-iconvcodec which sometimes come up as 
recommended packages to install in debian properly should be dependencies 
for anyone installing podracer in addition to podracer's other 
dependencies.  I had those packages temporarily removed by a system 
upgrade and that caused an error to happen with podracer.  Replacing both 
packages has made that error disappear.

Re: podracer

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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Thanks.  I will check into this.  However I don't have those packages
installed and don't seem to have this problem.  I know that there was a
problem with bittorrent and python2.4 which has been resolved at about
the same time you installed those packages.  Not sure if this was your
problem or not, but it seems likely.

Lorenzo
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podracer

[Jude DaShiell]

Certain days and times I've been noticing while podracer was running it 
couldn't get out to the internet since the ethernet connection was down 
and I didn't take the ethernet connection down or turn off the modem or 
disconnect anything. A workaround for this I'm now using is a modified 
crontab file podracer entry.  It just adds a pon dsl-provider && before 
the podracer command.  I get email letting me know it actually works too 
by means of the pon output response, I have the mailto variable set for 
that purpose.

podracer

[Jude DaShiell]

It's still a little rough around the edges but did download its 
subscription files.  I tried adding wtopnews.com/podcast/611200.rss to the 
subscription file but it wouldn't download that rss.  It's compressed with 
.gz so this may not be available to podracer just yet.
Two other rough edges oof note.
1) the directory was created for the next day's podcasts but no podcasts
    were downloaded into it.  It could be the crontab suggestion in
    podracer README is incorrect.  Oddly enough though running podracer
    once the crontab entry was installed didn't appear to take over the
    computer as happened when subscription list podcasts were downloaded
    the first time the proram started up.