How Nerdy Am I?

I hate iTunes so much that I would do just about anything to avoid it. "But it handles podcasts!" you say. If that's what you call "handling podcasts", so be it. I need something better.

Unsatisfied with a podcast experience lovingly crafted by Steve Jobs, I went and found BashPodder, a script that you can run on Linux or Windows (I use SFU to accomplish this), and which simply enough takes in RSS feeds and "wget"s MP3s.

Of course, even something that basic isn't enough for me. BashPodder will download pretty much every enclosure, whether it ends in .MP3 or .MOV or .JPG. That's useless to me. But since BashPodder isn't much more than a shell script, I can edit it to my heart's content.

So I did.

But to make sure that I don't fundamentally break everything, I went and put my changes into a Codeville repository. This way, not only do I have a distributable method of tracking changes that I make to the BashPodder shell script, but also the config file and the log, which in BashPodder-ese is just my list of RSS feeds and the list of enclosures I've downloaded.

So basically, if the world blows up tomorrow I'd still be able to make sure I don't listen to "Soccergirl Incorporated #98" twice.