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By: Doga Armangil
 RE: Download description too [ reply ]
2010-03-17 11:02
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Hi,
My position regarding podcatcher is this:
1. it should do one thing, and do it well (that is, downloading enclosures),
2. it should not try to overcome the shortcomings of ill-conceived podcasts.
To me, your suggestion is not really compatible with this view. Having said that, you are welcome to play with the code (available at http://github.com/doga/podcatcher ). I accept code contributions (as long as they make sense to me :)
Anyway, thanks for the feedback!
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By: z w
Download description too [ reply ]
2010-03-12 03:34
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Thanks for podcatcher - very flexible!
A feature I'd find useful would be the ability to save the description of a podcast along with the enclosure. These live in the "itunes:summary", or "content:encoded", or "description" tags within an RSS <item> (or sometimes all three). Many foreign language learning podcasts come with transcriptions and/or translations in the description which are almost as important as the audio. I both read and listen to http://onethinginafrenchday.podbean.com/ for instance.
You could argue that the transcription should be embedded in a "lyrics" tag of the content as well as the description, making content self-contained; I'd agree, but we can't bend all podcasters to our will. You could also argue that it's not podcatcher's job and that (for instance) feedparser should be used as well - but you wouldn't want to take second place to a PYTHON script, now, would you? :)
Just my $0.02!
ZakW
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