podcasthandler 0.0.1

Easily play podcasts

Podcast Handler

A simple tool to play and keep track of your podcasts.

Requirements

1. Python 3.0 or above
2. Music Player Daemon (link)
3. Python library Python-Mpd2 (link)

Install

To clone the git repository:

	git clone https://gitlab.com/fnt400/podcast-handler.git

Usage

podcast-handler

A command line tool to play and automatically save position of a specific url.

usage: podcast-handler [-h] [-H HOST] [-u URL] [-g] [-p POSITION] command

positional arguments: command play, stop, status, restart, gui

optional arguments:

-h, --help show this help message and exit

-H HOST, --host HOST set mpd host (default localhost)

-u URL, --url URL set podcast episode url

-g, --gui start with ncurses gui

-p POSITION, --position POSITION set start position (mm:ss)

Here's the available commands:

Play

Play a specified url. Without the URL argument, it continues the last played url. With the POSITION argument, it starts playing from that position.

Stop

Stop playing.

Status

Display the current or the last played url.

Restart

Restart from the beginning of the file.

Gui

Start the ncurses gui.

Known Bugs

• gui crashes on window resize