NAME

       podbeuter - a podcast download manage for text terminals

SYNOPSIS

       podbeuter [-C configfile] [-q queuefile] [-a] [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       podbeuter is a podcast manager for text terminals. It is a helper program to newsbeuter
       which queues podcast downloads into a file. These queued downloads can then be download
       with newsbeuter.

OPTIONS

       -h
           Display help

       -C configfile
           Use an alternative configuration file

       -q queuefile
           Use an alternative queue file

       -a
           Start automatic download of all queued files on startup

PODCAST SUPPORT

       A podcast is a media file distributed over the internet using syndication feeds such as
       RSS, for later playback on portable players or computers. Newsbeuter contains support for
       downloading and saving podcasts. This support differs a bit from other podcast aggregators
       or "podcatchers" in how it is done.

       Podcast content is transported in RSS feeds via special tags called "enclosures".
       Newsbeuter recognizes these enclosures and stores the relevant information for every
       podcast item it finds in an RSS feed. Since version 2.0, it also recognizes and handles
       the Yahoo Media RSS extensions. What the user then can do is to add the podcast download
       URL to a download queue. Alternatively, newsbeuter can be configured to automatically do
       that. This queue is stored in the file $HOME/.newsbeuter/queue.

       The user can then use the download manager "podbeuter" to download these files to a
       directory on the local filesystem. Podbeuter comes with the newsbeuter package, and
       features a look and feel very close to the one of newsbeuter. It also shares the same
       configuration file.

       Podcasts that have been downloaded but haven’t been played yet remain in the queue but are
       marked as downloaded. You can remove them by purging them from the queue with the P key.
       After you’ve played a file and close podbeuter, it will be removed from the queue. The
       downloaded file remains on the filesystem.

CONFIGURATION COMMANDS

       download-path (parameters: <path>; default value: ~/)
           Specifies the directory where podbeuter shall download the files to. Optionally, the
           placeholders "%n" (for the podcast feed’s name) and "%h" (for the podcast feed’s
           hostname) can be used to place downloads in a directory structure. (example:
           download-path "~/Downloads/%h/%n")

       max-downloads (parameters: <number>; default value: 1)
           Specifies the maximum number of parallel downloads when automatic download is enabled.
           (example: max-downloads 3)

       player (parameters: <player command>; default value: "")
           Specifies the player that shall be used for playback of downloaded files. (example:
           player "mp3blaster")

FILES

       $HOME/.newsbeuter/config

       $HOME/.newsbeuter/queue

SEE ALSO

       newsbeuter(1). The documentation that comes with newsbeuter is a good source about the
       general use and configuration of newsbeuter’s podcast support.

AUTHORS

       Andreas Krennmair <ak@newsbeuter.org>, for contributors see AUTHORS file.

AUTHOR

       Andreas Krennmair <ak@newsbeuter.org>
           Author.

                                            08/27/2013                               PODBEUTER(1)