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A simple tool to play and keep track of your podcasts.
It consist in a simple command-line script and a simple ncurses gui to listen to your podcasts in streaming, without downloading them.
It saves the current elapsed time, so you can stop listening and than continue later restarting from the correct position.
You can manually insert the url of the audio file in the command line, or set it as the default player in your favourite podcast aggregator.
1. Python >= 3.0
2. Music Player Daemon
To install the package use the python package installer pip:
$ python3 -m pip install podcasthandler
Please note that the music server should be running in your computer, in order to use the program.
You can also download the source code from GitLab:
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/fnt400/podcasthandler.git
Here's the help file:
usage: podcasthandler [-h] [-H HOST] [-u URL] [-p POSITION] [-g] command
positional arguments:
command play, stop, status, restart, gui, version
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-H HOST, --host HOST set mpd host (default localhost)
-u URL, --url URL set podcast episode url
-p POSITION, --position POSITION
set podcast position (mm:ss)
-g, --gui start with curses gui
And here's the available commands:
Play a specified url. Without the URL argument, it continues the last played url.
With the POSITION argument, it starts playing from a specific position (minutes:seconds)
You can set the mpd host (if you have other mpd instances in your local network), the next time, if not specified, it will use the same host.
Examples:
$ podcasthandler play
With this command it will continue playing the last file you listened to, from the correct position in the last mpd server you used (probably your own computer, so "localhost").
$ podcasthandler play -u "https://www.buzzsprout.com/1263722/5071877-unfettered-freedom-ep-3-facebook-zoom-appimage-kdenlive-new-linux-users.mp3?blob_id=20355212" -H 192.168.1.50 -p 5:24
With this command it will start playing that audio file address in the computer at 192.168.1.50 from 5 minutes and 24 seconds.
Stop playing.
It displays generic information about what you are listening to or what you listened the last time.
Restart from the beginning of the file.
Start the ncurses gui.
Print version and exit.
Podcasthandler can be used as stand alone audio player manually inserting the correct audio file url. However, it could be simpler to use a podcast aggregator!
You can set it as the default audio player using the ncurses gui.
Please note that ncurses is a terminal interface, so if you are using a graphical software, you should always start the program in a terminal window, with a command like that:
$ xterm -e podcasthandler play -g -H localhost -u
Newsboat: a ncurses rss aggregator
If your are using Newsboat, you can add this line to the config file (usually in ~/.config/newsboat/config):
browser "podcasthandler play -g -H localhost -u %u"
You can select the playable file within the article, pushing the key "1".
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