pod catchers

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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Well, I wasn't really planning to respond to this, since I did write one
of the apps in question, but I think I can give an unbiased opinion in
this situation.

The main difference between hpodder and podracer as far as I am aware is
that podracer supports downloading podcasts distributed via bittorrent.
I had the opportunity to use hpodder some time back and found it quite
easy to use and manage at the time, and that was earlier this year, so
it has most likely improved since then.  There are also, as I recall,
some more advanced features available in hpodder that are still lacking
in podracer.

So my unbiased opinion is that if you need podcasts that are distributed
via bittorrent then podracer is about the only app that will catch them,
although bittorrent support has been known to be unreliable at times
during some python release cycles.  If you don't need bittorrent
support, then hpodder may be more to your liking, especially if you need
some of its more advanced features such as conversion of subscription
formats from other apps, automatic tagging or file name customization
and collision detection.  Wow!  Taking a look at the hpodder site, it
looks like it rocks!  Seems that if it wasn't for bittorrent support,
podracer would be deprecated.  Sorry about that.  There's only so much
that can be done with bash. <smile>

HTH a little,
Lorenzo
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