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People monitoring this wiki, is there a better place in this wiki to discuss features and usage?

Musicpd and podcasting? Has anyone thought about that combination?

I would like to listen to podcasts using mpd, and might find myself the time to hack something together. But before I do -- Does anyone know if has already been done? Googeling for it gave me nothing...

Either podcast recieving could be implemented in mpd, or it could be done using an external hack. I don't know what would be best.

If mpd would know about podcasts, it would be simple for the user to simply provide a RSS feed trough the client. Having a separate system for podcasts would require things to be more advanced. Another problem with implementing podcasts with an external system is that it would clutter the filesystem and database with files that one only wants to play once.

Some kind of external daemon living in symbiosis with mpd would probably be the neatest. Something that gets passed the RSS feeds from mpd when a client adds them, and adds shows to the playlist when they gets published.

Any comments? Does this text make any sense at all?

Of course it's better to discuss this in the forums.

I use podget just have it place your poscasts in your music directory see: http://sourceforge.net/projects/podget/ Podget is a simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron), with support for categories & folders, importing servers from OPML lists & iTunes PCAST files, automatic playlist creation and cleanup.