My phone is broken and I neeeed to listen to my podcasts while this is resolving. I thought it would be simple enough but I have been banging my head for days now.

There are lots of rss readers and podcatchers.

Ideally the downloading and listening would be integrated. Failing that, I can put up with 2 separate steps.

I can do the downloading although it’s kind of clunky. Best for this are RSSGuard and Gpodder. But once you get the files, things totally break down.

minimally require:

  • track listening status
  • properly access metadata, not just going by filenames.
    • most crucially: name of podcast, episode title, published date, download date
    • maybe the downloader has some role to play in writing file/metadata correctly but the ones I have tried don’t seem to do it
  • don’t need to make an account/server to do the above

I tried everything in arch/aur repos. A few of them had totally broken UIs not sure what the deal is. I am open to TUI options but none seemed viable.

manjaro/xfce

  • donut4ever@lemm.ee
    4·
    11 months ago

    I can think of three apps that I have used and liked (since you didn’t mention that you tried that them already) Cpod, Kasts and Vocal. See if any of them works for ya

      • donut4ever@lemm.ee
        3·
        11 months ago

        Damn. Sorry you’re going through this. See if gnome’s podcasts works for ya? Btw, cpod works for me just fine on fedora. I actually just tried it. I got it as a flatpak, though Maybe try the flatpak app and see if that works? 🤞

        • imaradio@lemmy.caOP
          1·
          11 months ago

          I have settled into kasts. Thanks for the rec. :) It is simple but does the job. If my phone issues persist I will try the flatpack of cpod.