Re: itune podcasts on a debian system?
Hi Thomas,
Thomas H. George wrote:
The New York Times says I must have itunes to hear/see the science
podcast.
No you don't!
Humor me, I'v lived in a cave listening to classical music on vinyl for
the last 81 years. My cell phone is 10 years old and doesn't do apps.
I have no ipad/pod/whatever.
What must I install to listen to the science podcast?
Just when I was about to go to bed, you brought this interesting little
problem for me to work through.
I found some download links for you....
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podcasts/archive.php?iid=15159
Most episodes have a direct download link, here are some of them from
that page:
long link (with redirect)
http://dts.podtrac.nytimes.com/redirect.mp3/podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2010/12/13/14science.mp3
short derived link (from experience, these work)
http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2010/12/13/14science.mp3
short links
http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2010/12/06/07science.mp3
http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2010/11/29/30science.mp3
http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2010/11/22/23science.mp3
http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2010/11/15/16science.mp3
... three are more there for you to find ;-)
The following were found by right clicking on the "Listen" links (where
the download link wasn't showing), they opened in new tabs and I was
able to find the direct download links:
http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2008/03/03/04scienceupdate.mp3
http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2008/02/15/19scienceupdate.mp3
http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2008/02/04/05scienceupdate.mp3
There are more like those there too .....
There are plenty of MP3 capable players in Linux, you don't need iTunes,
but it does make it harder to "collect" episodes without a feed link.
Actually there is an RSS feed link too, I'll let you discover how to use
that, but the feed doesn't show all history, just the more recent mp3 files.
http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/scienceupdate.xml
And look what else I found:
http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/Science
That gives feeds for all the programs.
I would be interested in a "better" iTunes answer for Linux as would my
son and so many other people I'm sure. But I think the last and fuller
xml feed file will be useful with a media player in Linux that can take
feeds.
Loads of players here to consider:
http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Software.html
Cheers and Enjoy
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AndrewM
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