I’ve been listening to podcasts off and on for maybe a year now but I’ve only been getting them manually. That is to say that instead of having a piece of software that will catch podcasts for me I’ve just been going out looking for the ones I like and grabbing them. I find now that I like podcasts so much more than the radio that I’m listening to quite a bit more of them and maybe it’s time to start subscribing with a newsreader that downloads those enclosures for me automatically. So I started poking around and found surprisingly little good stuff when I search for podcatching on Linux or iTunes on Linux. On a whim I thought I’d have a look at Amarok.

I was using Amarok as my main music player on my openSuse 10.2 desktop until I broke my sound once and it wouldn’t play mp3s but Kaffeine would. So Kaffeine’s been my player. I’ve always preferred Amarok for the slick user interface and convenient use of the usually unmapped Windows key for globally accessible keyboard shortcuts. Just now I started Amarok up again and all I had to do was go to Settings -> Configure Amarok… then pick Engine on the left and set the Output Plugin field to Alsa. Okay, not obvious to a new user but I’ve been down this road before. Now Amarok plays fine again.
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