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Download A Podcast Feed Using Foobar?

Hi there 🙂

My goal is to open a podcast rss feed (paid subscription, not free/public) in a pc application of some kind (tried others previously, now Foobar in this case) and download the entire 850+ mp3 archive, one by one, to my hard drive.
[Keeping the artist/episode title details intact during the download/transfer process (rather than something like "d2c7a93548217bc1fd46d646a3f0e0a0.mp3", which is what happens when downloading individual files directly from an online podcast manager) is preferred...and the 'one by one' thing is also preferred because previous attempts at downloading more than one file at a time ground the computer to a halt😬]. 

⏩ Can Foobar do something along these lines?

I did notice an outdated/no-longer-available plugin called "Podcatcher", but it's unclear if it would've been able to perform such a process even if it were still available...

Any advice would be appreciated!

Re: Download A Podcast Feed Using Foobar?

Reply #1 –
Can anyone advise? 

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Reply #2 –
I can't imagine how you hope to preserve track details if they are not contained within the MP3 nor in the file name.  This has probably been done deliberately to foil attempts such as yours, and it is almost certainly against the terms of the service to which you have subscribed.

I'm not advising that you do, but if I were to try I would capture the track details separately by some kind of data scrape, and then  use code to apply that data to the MP3 downloads.
It's your privilege to disagree, but that doesn't make you right and me wrong.

Re: Download A Podcast Feed Using Foobar?

Reply #3 –
Hi fooball, 
I appreciate the feedback very much.

"...capture the track details separately by some kind of data scrape, and then use code to apply that data to the MP3 downloads..."

⏩ Regarding those downloads: are you familiar with how to dl/transfer the mp3s using Foobar?

⏩ And any suggestions on how to do/where to inquire about the data scrape? 

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Quote from: Roosh on
Regarding those downloads: are you familiar with how to dl/transfer the mp3s using Foobar?
Why use FB2K when you have other tools?  I see no advantage.  Even the wget command.

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And any suggestions on how to do/where to inquire about the data scrape?
Google it.

You want to do something which sounds illicit, so it's best you work it out for yourself and don't involve other people.
It's your privilege to disagree, but that doesn't make you right and me wrong.

Re: Download A Podcast Feed Using Foobar?

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1) Manually downloading/renaming hundreds of files one by one would be...not ideal...
Looking to automate the process.

Apparently Foobar used to have a plugin called "Podcatcher' - perhaps it could do this... but it seems to be no longer available? Maybe someone here knows if FB can do it even without the plugin? 

2) It's a subscription I pay for. I wish to back up the files to disk.

⏩ If anyone knows how to load a podcast feed in Foobar for this task, please let me know. 

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Quote from: Roosh on
Looking to automate the process.
So do some scripting, eg .bat in Windows.  What I've done in the past (not for quite this sort of thing!) is capture the raw information into a text file, use spreadsheet string manipulation functions to format the raw information into a series of .bat commands, write out the relevant section of the spreadsheet to a text file, rename the text file to .bat, and run it.

The key to this kind of thing is work out what you need to do on the command line for one specific example, then automate the process of generating the commands to do the rest.

Or look online for a scraper utility.

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I wish to back up the files to disk.
Just because you wish it doesn't make it legitimate.

I've pointed you in the right direction, now it's up to how much effort you're prepared to put in.
It's your privilege to disagree, but that doesn't make you right and me wrong.

Re: Download A Podcast Feed Using Foobar?

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I'm not sure there is anything illicit about downloading podcasts. That was the way to listen to them before the streaming monopoly giants said "You must use our app! −No, use our app!" ::)

Quote from: Roosh on
[Keeping the artist/episode title details intact during the download/transfer process (rather than something like "d2c7a93548217bc1fd46d646a3f0e0a0.mp3",

The question is, does the downloaded file have metadata? Drop that file in a foobar playlist, right-click > Properties - what tags are there?

It has been a few years since I used Podcatcher, but I recall it did let you save the folder / filename based on tags. And most podcasts were already tagged. Besides if that is the case, you could download them with that rubbish filename using whatever program, and then use foobar File Operations to rename every track at once.