PODCASTS: what is the best application for downloding & playing them on LL 2.0?

[Jerry]

Nice one

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[greenisland]

Now that I have installed MIRO I have to say WOW.  It does everything I want it to do.  Now my problem is remembering why I thought Clementine was so great because I am about to uninstall and abandon that !!! ;-)

[greenisland]

Thank you Jerry!

[Jerry]

http://www.getmiro.com/

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sudo apt-get install miro

[greenisland]

Did you ever find a good podcast app?  I am not able to use clementine because it won't let me configure a feed manually for authentication.  I don't like gpodder because it can't play the podcast in the app.  I can't get Vocal to install.

Any ideas?

I should add that a key feature I am looking for is the ability to have the program download the podcasts automatically every day, and then save them to a specified folder.

[m654321]

In your experience,  what is the best application for downloading & playing podcasts on LL2?

I have tried both 'Rhythmbox' and 'Clementine 1.2.3.', and have heard of 'Banshee' but haven't tried it.

Clementine is superb: I love the way it lists all the RSS feeds to choose from on the the BBC, and you just click on the ones that interest you and Clementine downloads them.  It is less straightforward with Rhythmbox, where you need to copy and past the URL of the RSS of interest into the application.  In my view, the preset volume range for Rhythmbox is much better calibrated, being similar to the sound levels that most Youtube videos (which I watch a lot) run at. 

In contrast, Clementine runs very quietly both on LL2 and on two other distros that I tried it on - I had to turn the sound levels right up to near maximum to hear it at a comfortably audible level.  And there's the problem...  one time that I did this, I forgot to turn the sound levels back down when I went back to watching Youtube videos, and consequently my laptop speakers got blasted.  The result is that the speakers got damaged, to the extent that I am unable to enjoy listening to music on my laptop's speakers.

I am interested to hear any views/comments/recommendations based on your own experiences with podcasts.
Many thanks.

Regards
Mike