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Episode: 1992
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Title: HPR1992: How I'm handling my podcast-subscriptions and -listening
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1992/hpr1992.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 12:57:28
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Hi, I'm Folkian this time it's my real boss.
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I was thinking about my next contribution on HPR.
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The usual way would be to talk about what's in my pocket or give you a commanded list of
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the podcasts I'm subscribed to, but most of the English speaking ones you already know
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because others have talked about them earlier on this channel.
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How about the way I'm handling my subscriptions and what I'm doing with the files afterwards?
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I think the big advantage of podcasts is that you can get all kinds of media without
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looking for it all the time, so it should work once set up automatically.
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That's why I'm using a cron job.
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Every quarter past the hour, cron is starting podget on my laptop.
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Podget is using an easy to manage list of URLs to download what you like.
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There's a good manual so I will not describe all features, but one thing is great and it's
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also why I'm using just this tool of all command line interface tools out there.
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You can download from sites requiring login.
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That's something you otherwise only get from bloated programs like G-Podder which wasn't
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my cup of tea in the long run.
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One more advantage of podget is that you can define the subfolder you will use per subscription.
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Most of my podcasts will be placed in a folder defined by the download date so that I can
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listen to them more chronological than by genre or theme or title.
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Sometimes when you've been away from the net a little bit longer, the amount of files
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to download can take a little longer and cron can start more than one instance of podget
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and you can get the funniest effects when you listen to files being downloaded two or
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more times at the same time.
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I heard repeated parts of the same podcast and unsorted bits of shows.
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That's why I wrote my own little bash script that controls if the pod process is running
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before podget is started and while writing this I took the chance to do some more, a little
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bit of logging and cleaning the podcast folder.
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I called it RENPOT.
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Some files have very strange names like 7354727.mp3 or PDEX-223-AA-2327.mp3 and you wouldn't
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know what this is.
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All my players understand ID tags so that shouldn't be a problem but I would like to see directly
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which file is it is and by the way you can get files without any ID tag at all too.
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So I use a graphical tool called PUTTLETEK to rename files and or to change some ID tag
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fields.
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Earlier I used EZTEK, nothing bad about this program, PUTTLETEK is just a little bit
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more in my taste.
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As someone with many subscriptions and wish to have as many files in free format as possible
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I convert all of the mp3 and mp4a files I am listening to, only I am listening to an
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arc verbis or since rockbox now can handle this format fine to opus.
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This way the files get smaller too and don't lose any quality at least as my ears can hear
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it.
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Those shows my wife also will listen to, I left an mp3 because really wise we are using
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together connected to the hi-fi only can play mp3 and wma.
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For converting I also wrote my own scripts called TOUK and OPKONF.
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This uses fast ogeng respectively ffm pack as its main tool and can take any amount
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of arguments I wish.
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Under the preparation of this talk I put them up on github.
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Links will be found in the show notes.
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So now I have named and converted the files but I am still not satisfied.
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Some shows last more than 1 hour and not all players have a reliable bookmarking function.
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So I like to split large files into smaller sections.
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For doing this I have written a small bash script called SPALT which is using ogsplit mp3
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split without any option it splits in 10 minutes sections and deletes the original file.
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I have given the minus s option it searches for pauses it splits on those points but this
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time it is not deleting the original file because in the case of 0 split points you would
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have nothing left in the case of the opus files I haven't found any tool to split so
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I am doing the splitting first and then do the conversion.
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I own a Sansa clip plus which is my companion as soon as I leave the house.
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As already mentioned there is of course rockbox installed on it.
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I like the device updated all the time therefore I at least once a day connected to my laptop
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and synchronize.
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For this task I also wrote a script situated in my personal bin folder.
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I called it BPACPOT.
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It deletes all the tracks on the device no longer found in the podcast folder on the laptop
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and copies over all new or changed files.
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I am listening to all sorts of podcasts every time I have the opportunity and suited for
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the different occasions I have different ways to do it.
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When I'm on a way or running up and down in the house doing all kinds of stuff I use
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my Sansa clip and adjust the speed of the files to manage as many tracks as I can.
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I usually listen to English spoken shows between 1.2 and 1.5 times the original speed.
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German Swedish ones will be a little bit faster maybe between 1.5 to 2 times because these
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are my mother tongue at my everyday language.
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I can do this thanks to the function Rockbox is giving the Sansa clip.
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When I'm sitting with the laptop I'm using the play command found in the socks package.
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I also like to use mock Moc the console audio player but so far this doesn't have any
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function for speed up and therefore it's my choice only when listening to music.
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When working in the kitchen or sitting room I use our internet radio device that also
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can play MP3 files and listen to those podcasts I left in MP3 format.
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By the way I'm thinking about another show where I could talk about how I revive this device
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with the help of the guy behind listenlive.nl but I don't want to promise too much.
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For this time I took enough of your time I hope you caught something interesting from
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all of this and you are not bored by my big big accent.
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All scripts I named can be found on Github another user named Swaygrips that's SW-E-G-R-Y-P-S
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but you could look in the show notes as well.
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Have a good time and don't forget to share the software.
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