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So the days show has been rushed out but for the reason just explained.
I did plan to do this show but not at this time.
I'm not quite in this order however needs must and I'll probably be a bit rough and ready.
Today's show is about my podcast client and my podcast client of choice is H-Poder.
I chose this for the single reason that it was able to import my large existing collection of
podcast feeds from I-Poder.
Unfortunately H-Poder is no longer being actively maintained which is a shame because it's such a great
piece of software. It just does such a nice job least for me anyway it does.
It tends to go quite a bit as business with no intervention or fuss so really can ask for much more.
According to the H-Poder web page it says H-Poder is a tool to scan and download podcasts such
tools are often called podcasters. H-Poder is a command line tool for Linux and other project
systems, free-based Mac OS X et cetera. It's quite a few features, a few highlights are
that is easy to learn and use. It has automatically discovered of feed metadata and can import
iPod or settings. The software was written by John, now I'm going to butcher the steamer
and I'm afraid John goes G-O-E-R-Z-E-N, I'm sorry John. If you like it you can send a few dollars
my way of VMI tip jar, though this is certainly optional and doesn't buy you anything.
So there you go that's the top of his page. So obviously the first thing you've got to do to
start using a thing is install it and on an Ubuntu system or a DevInbase system you do
see is app-gate package management or whatever. I'm just going to have how you look and see if it's
still available. I've got an old version of Ubuntu running on my server and if it just check
app dash, get an opt dash, cache, search, H-O-D-E-H-Poder and it's with our tool to scan and download
podcasts. So it's still available on that. Now I think that's the Ubuntu 12.04. I'm not quite
sure so it's a really old version of Ubuntu. I'll just try a just a curiosity app dash, cache, search.
Now this is an on-rass bin running on my Raspberry Pi, it's a C-Fix available on that.
Any second now? No, that's a shame. So it's not available on an on-rass bin. So that's
going to be a first plug, it's probably not going to be available. So I'm not quite sure how useful
this is going to be, but as I said before it's it's going to rush out. So the first thing
once you've installed the H-Poder, the first thing I did was to import my podcast feeds from
I-Poder which I was using at the time and you do that with the command H-Poder space
import dash i-Poder space dash dash from equals and then the path to the to the tier i-Poder file
and that'll import all your old feeds. Now that was this, that was a killer feature that this
podcast client had and was why I chose it in the first place because I could really be bothered
them recreating all these feeds that I had actually using the client's surface as pretty straightforward
it is from the command line you just enter H-Poder space add space and then the URL to the feed
the ear wanting to add and then add it and then finally I just added to update and download the feed
so you just issue the command H-Poder from the command line and enough it goes. Obviously you can
automate that process and make it do it at booter or you have a cron jobs or whatever and
and the things are just runs away quite slightly they're doing its thing as and when you
are said to the to do so the if you want to get a list of H-Poder commands you can issue command
L-S command so H-Poder L-S commands there you go and there's a whole pile add catch up the
table download enable fetch import L-S catch up there's a whole pile I'm really um so um I don't think
um oh there is there's going to see there's a man peach but there is actually a
whole there's a man peach for the application but that's actually all there is to it you just
add your feeds and then just run H-Poder to catch them but that's actually all you need to do
it's Poder boots each podcast feed and it's own individual folder and group some that way
I don't know if you can customize that in any way but to that now I find that works well for myself
other commands you might find useful is there's an L-S cast command and they
so I'll just do that L-S casts oh yeah sorry so basically if you do L-S casts all this play all
the podcasts are configured rather than H-Poder for each podcast you will see the Poder
a podcast ID the number of pending downloads the total number of episodes ever seen by H-Poder
and the title of the podcast you can optionally add the dash L if you add the dash L option
then L-S cast L-S casts will also display the feed of the URL for each podcast so another
useful command is H-Poder update and what that does is up that updates all the feeds without
actually downloading the content it's not a manual it says H-Poder update the update command will
cause H-Poder to look at each podcast feed it will download the latest copy of the feed and
compare the episode mentioned in the feed to its internal database of episodes for any episode
mentioned in the feed that is not already in the internal database of episodes H-Poder will add it
to the database and set it status depending so as H-Poder space update space and in
the optionally add the cast ID so that's asking you know what feed do you want to update
if you don't include that then obviously update some all and the cast ID is as a number of
so for each podcast H-Poder gets a numeric ID this ID is automatically assigned by H-Poder
and is not changeable the ID is given out when a podcast is added with the ad command or with
the L-S casts or L-S episodes command the ID is designed as a constant way to refer to a particular
podcast a podcast title may change or even its feed URL but the ID of a podcast will never change
it's also easy and short to type on the command line several commands can take a list of
podcast IDs if no IDs are given the command will default to operating on all podcasts
one and more ID can be given separately by spaces if IDs are given then the command will
operate on only the podcast with the given IDs the special keyword all may be given which tells
a system to operate on all podcasts this yields the same result as giving no IDs at all so that's
how the IDs work so another command that sort of goes along with update is download as H-Poder
space download so the download command is used to actually perform the download of podcasts to
your system by default download will download all available episodes you can however specify
only certain podcasts to process if you do all available episodes for only those podcasts will
be downloaded optionally the cast ID be made issued by default this command will operate on all podcasts
you can limit the podcast on which it operates with this option another useful command is
catch up H-Poder catch up H-Poder space catch up and then they catch up while
codes H-Poder to mark all but the most recent episodes are skipped this will prevent H-Poder from
automatically downloading such episodes so if you're starting through a show which has got
hundreds of episodes and you don't want to get all the back catalog you can use this command for
that very thing it's got two optional parameters one's a number of the dash a number by default
only the single most recent episode is exempt from being caught up if you want to exclude more
episodes from being caught up and thus allow more to be downloaded use this option to allow
more episodes to remain downloadable oh that's a sentence you just give that as a number so the
number you want to catch up by if you want to download another the most common tennis suppose you can
just do add 10 and then after that you give option the cast ID I gave which tells at which
which a podcast feed you're you're talking about hope that makes sense so H-Poder catch up
the number of a podcast you want to download and which feeds you want to apply that to
that's really what that is it's Poder RM cast I optionally cast it's Poder RM and
cast ID which this case isn't optional so this command will remove all knowledge about a
given podcast from each Poder including all the entries about that podcast in the episode database
one and more podcast ID are required see the section below it's best playing podcast IDs for more
details unlike most other is pod or commands like set an empty pod guest ID list to mean all
all podcasts RM does not because of the destructive potential such a request so you have must
issue a cast ID so it when you do the RM command so that it it's to specific feed I'm not the whole
damn lot suppose you could use that all come out the all it's the special all command maybe don't
know I'm not I don't want to do that anyway um H-Poder disabled cast ID so this command will flag
podcast as disabled put cast flag disabled will be skipped during an update download or fetch
they will still participate with all other commands H-Poder it all other commands
H-Poder LSCAS will notify you of which podcast are disabled this can be useful if you want to
stop following a podcast profile but thinking might want to come back to it in the future
the podcast URL and your download history will remain in H-Poder database unlike with H-Poder RM command
disabled podcast can be re-enabled with H-Poder enabled one of the more podcast IDs are required
so there you go so of course obviously the next command would be H-Poder enabled and that just re-enabled
support cast again one final thing I did a couple of releases to my bash underscore releases file
I choose I've got a few actually so the first one I've got is the first one displays a sorted
list of all podcasts for some reason when you do H-Poder space LSCAS it doesn't for some reason
that it doesn't list your feeds in the order and any order I'm not quite sure what order
it is I can never have what that out because I thought what my bit would do it alphabetical
it isn't alphabetical and then thought what my bit does it you know it gives each each feed the number
so it'll do numerically numerically in order of the cast ID it doesn't do that either so it just seems to be
a random order I don't know what order it's in but anyway I really start to just L-SCAS all
and what that does is it is usually command each Poder space L-SCAS I've picked that to sort
with a dash end which is sort numeric I think that's what it is from memory and then
picked that to L-S so then what it does is displays the the list of feeds and numeric ID order
and you know the highest number is obviously the the most recent feed and the lowest number
is the very first feed the very earliest feed basically so that's L-SCAS all
I've got another one that displays a sorted list of active podcasts and that's
L-SCAS that's a call out on L-SCAS active so that an L-SCAS
has got the command H-Poder space L-SCAS I picked that to sort dash end and I haven't looked at
these for ages and then that pipes to F-Grip or F-Y and then dash V and then in brackets disabled
it's in square brackets is what what is put an impact that to L-SCAS so what is put it does is
every feed which is the same but whatever feed which is the disabled has it has it has
in brackets disabled in it I don't know why I further did it that way
oh DNA so I guess what that this is it shows all that ones are not disabled so by default
they must be active I suppose and then I've got I've got another one which is called L-SCAS
disabled and that does each Poder space L-SCAS picked a sort dash end which is numeric F-Grip
but rather using the dash V option which says don't force what's not if match things that have not
got the disabled string in it this is looking for the the disabled string in square brackets
so this in this case this shows all the feeds which have got disabled in it
I hope that makes sense this podcast was definitely put together and I'm sure it shows
you're quite a lot of rough edges on it and as I say again I don't know how much
you should be telling one because it seems unfortunately that H-Poder is no longer maintained
great shame because it's a great podcast client I said before there's a lot more H-Poder
a lot more to H-Poder some of which I've only discovered well pulling this podcast together
I probably never used the more advanced features because as I mentioned before the program works
so smoothly and just does what I want with minimal effort it's a real shame that is no longer
actively maintained but I'll continue to use it until I find that I can no longer install it from
my little bit too ripple okay last bit for this podcast I hope you enjoyed the podcast remember
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