A podcast is rich media, such as audio or video, distributed via RSS. Podcast derives from the words broadcast and iPod. Podcasting lets you automatically receive the latest show of your chosen programme as soon as it is available.
Podcasts are shows, similar to radio or TV shows, that are produced by professionals or amateurs and made available on the internet to stream and/or download. They have entered into a more mature phase; a few of the podcasts featured in this article are coming up to their tenth anniversary.
Linux is endowed with a wide range of podcast tools to choose from, but we’re always looking for new tools.
Poddycast is a podcast client that’s made with Electron. It’s free and open source software which runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Installation
We’re evaluating Poddycast with Manjaro, an Arch-based distro.
There’s a binary package in the AUR. You might think the installation would be trivial. Not so in this instance.
As the transaction summary shows, Poddycast relies on Electron 22. The package wants us to build Electron 22 from its AUR package.
As anyone who has built Electron knows, it’s a long process. On our 12 core / 16 thread test machine, this process took about 80 minutes, but failed complaining that one or more files did not pass the validity check.
While Pamac prompted us to build Electron, there’s actually a binary package of Electron 22 present in the AUR. Let’s install that.
Now when installing the binary Poddycast package again, the software installs!
Our testing of the software is limited to Linux.
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