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What media player do LL2-users use for downloading & playing podcasts?

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m654321:
Many thanks Scott, AL13N, bitsnpcs and gold_finger for your helpful comments - topic now solved.

Kind regards
Mike

m654321:

--- Quote from: Scott(0) on September 27, 2014, 10:45:08 AM ---Don't know what I was thinking. Guess I need another espresso. Let me try again.

If I want to listen to a podcast online I click the (podcast) link in the browser and and it will play in my browser, Firefox. So my preferred software here is the browser.  If I want to listen to a podcast offline I save the podcast and use VLC to listen to it later. So my preferred software here is VLC. I'm sure they're more elaborate solutions out there but I just don't personally need them. Hopefully others will jump in and offer their  preferrences as well. Does that answer the question?

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Many thanks Scott - it does indeed answer the question - very helpful  ;)

Regards
Mike

AL13N:

--- Quote from: m654321 on September 27, 2014, 10:16:34 AM ---My question was meant to be what is the preferred software that LL2-users have to download & play podcasts on LL2, e.g. podcasts of radio 4, or other radio programmes, downloaded from BBC i-player.

E.g. Banshee, Clementine, Rhythmbox, to name some.

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I don't listen to podcasts but do download radio programmes (Radio 3 Live in Concert) using get_iplayer.  For playback on my PC I use VLC media player.

VLC supports a wide range of formats so should be able to play podcast downloads.  (EDIT: Also see gold_finger's suggestion above)

It also has an option to subscribe to podcasts.  Click the "Toggle playlist" button then select Internet > Podcasts and click on the "+" sign.  A pop-up dialog will appear asking you to "Enter URL of the podcast to subscribe to".

     
 

Scott:
@gold_finger
Excellent point, appreciate the info.

gold_finger:
m654321,

Don't know if I have anything valuable to add to this -- just an observation.

Took look at link Scott(0) referenced before and noticed that the file types for download are in mp3 format.  If you are having problems getting VLC to play those files, my guess is that you did not install all necessary codecs when you installed LL2 because normally VLC has absolutely no problem with those.  You can add missing codecs by going to Menu -> System -> Install Additional Software -> Restricted Extras (install those).

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